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Typical Offers
Our offers are by and large in line with those typically set across the Cambridge Colleges. They are stretching but eminently achievable. We will sometimes set a slightly lower offer if an applicant showing great promise has been significantly disadvantaged educationally or otherwise; equally, we sometimes set slightly higher offers in cases where we are interested in making an offer but need additional reassurance about a promising applicant's ability and potential; we believe it is in the applicant's best interests that we do this, and so give them the benefit of the doubt, rather than make no offer at all.
Typical Churchill offers, in the examination systems that candidates most regularly present at application, are as follows:
- A Level: Grades A*AA or (more rarely) A*AAA. We do not intend ordinarily to specify which subject the A* grade should be achieved in. Please note that for Law Churchill typically asks for A*A*AA, and that for Maths we also require applicants to achieve grades 1, 1 in two STEP examinations — usually STEP Maths papers 2 and 3;
- IB: 41 or 42 points overall with Higher Level scores of 7, 7, 6;
- Pre-U: D2D3D3 or D2D2D3;
- Scottish Advanced Highers: Grades A1A1A2 or A1A2A2;
- French Bac: An average score of 16 or 17;
- German Abitur: An average score of 1.2;
- Irish Leaving Certificate: A1s and As in five subjects;
- US Advanced Placement Tests: Grade 5 in four APTs;
- SAT1: US Scholastic Aptitude Tests are not, in and of themselves, sufficient to qualify an applicant for Cambridge entry. But quite a lot of non-UK applicants have completed SAT1s and so we are used to dealing with these in our assessments. Successful applicants to Churchill have achieved comfortably above 700 points in their most relevant SAT1s. Most applicants presenting SATs have also completed US APTs, A Levels or the IB;
- IELTS: We require most students whose first language is not English to complete the IELTS exam with an average score of 7.5 and scores of at least 7 in each of the four components.
Please note that for Law our offers will typically be a little tougher than those for other subjects, and that for Maths we will almost invariably ask for grades 1, 1 in two STEP examinations — usually STEP Maths papers 2 and 3.
Other examination systems: If you are completing examinations in an examination system not listed above (every year there are a number of strong applicants in this situation), please contact the Churchill Admissions Office for advice. Offers will be, so far as we can judge, equivalent in standard to those listed above. As a general rule, we are looking for students whose academic record places them in the top 3 or 4 percentiles nationally of ability and achievement.