Interview Insights: Cambridge

Here's our database of first-hand student interview experiences. You can also watch students talk about other aspects of university in our student videos.

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Fitzwilliam (2016)

Almost all questions were based on things I’d submitted to the college (essays/personal statement) …

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Peterhouse (2016)

The first interview was genuinely lovely. It felt relaxed, more like a conversation than an intervi…

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Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview began with discussing the unseen text and moved onto discussing one of the piec…

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Lucy Cavendish (2016)

The first interview comprised of three random topics I chose to discuss prior to the interview; it …

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Clare (2014)

For my first interview I was given 5-10 minutes to look at the verse prologue of a play (about 30-4…

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Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was given five minutes to look over a poem, which we then discussed. I was…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.