SUMMARY

Please note that last year's figures are shown in italics in brackets.

Table 1   Number and percentage of all applications and acceptances by type of school/college and gender

• The proportion of women accepted has remained at 51% (51%)
• For applications from students attending UK schools/colleges the proportion of acceptances by school/college type are:

  Maintained	54% (56%)
  Independent	46% (44%)

Table 1.1   Number and percentage of Home applications and acceptances by type of UK school/college and gender

• For applications from Home students attending UK schools/colleges the proportion of acceptances by school/college type are:

  Maintained	56% (58%)
  Independent	44% (42%)

Table 3   Number and percentage of applications and acceptances by GCE A level grade scores and gender

• Of those accepted 96% (94%) achieved three grade As (or more) counting only their best three A levels excluding General Studies.

Table 8   Number and percentage of Home applications and acceptances by ethnic origin and percentage success rate

• The proportion of those accepted who declare they have an ethnic minority background or other is 13% (13%). In addition 9% (7%) of those accepted chose not to declare their ethnic origin.

Table 9   Number and percentage of applications and acceptances by disability and percentage success rate

• The proportion of those accepted who declare they have disability is 3% (3%).

Notes for information

• These statistics refer to applicants making an application in October 2005, either for entry in October 2006 or deferred entry in October 2007. Applicants holding a deferred offer from the previous admissions round are not included. Please note that the statistics also exclude 157 (355) applicants through UCAS who did not submit a Cambridge Application Form (CAF) in addition to a UCAS application.
• The term 'Home' refers to applicants who have indicated that they are in UCAS residential categories A, B, C, D and G (that is all categories except O). For more information about UCAS residential categories contact UCAS via www.ucas.ac.uk.
• Acceptance figures include only those applicants who received an unconditional firm offer of a place. It excludes those made conditional offers who were unsuccessful at confirmation.
• In many places percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number, so values given do not always add up to 100.