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.

Medicine

Gonville & Caius (2018)

The first interview used my personal statement and took something I wrote about my hospital work ex…

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Medicine

King's (2018)

It started off really casually with me exchanging pleasantries with the interviewer. I suppose he w…

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Medicine

Newnham (2016)

The personal interview addressed the personal statement in detail, expanding on points mentioned an…

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Personal statement questions, discussion of a news article, analysing medical data and graphs, basi…

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Medicine

Emmanuel (2017)

We covered questions on statistics, global health, specific diseases and talked about my personal …

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Medicine

Magdalene (2018)

In both my interviews there were 2 interviewers, with one asking me questions, and the other taking…

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