Cambridge may withdraw offers if too many students meet their offer, under a new “over-subscription” clause introduced by the university, it has been revealed.
For those not allocated a place, the university would try to find alternative colleges or courses or let them defer their place.
This follows last year’s A-level fiasco, which resulted in a record number of applicants meeting their offers.
The new clause enables Cambridge to withdraw places if there are “circumstances outside the reasonable control of the university and/or your college’ where “the number of applicants meeting the conditions of an offer of a place on your course exceeds the numbers of places available.”