#exceptional cases

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[askacambridgestudent]

I'm quite new to this bog so I apologise if this has already been asked before, but what is Cambridge's policy on (international) students who've skipped two grades, and want to apply early?

Incredibly varied. 

If you’ve got the grades when you apply, they’ll give you an interview. At the interview, they’ll be looking to see how mature you are/whether you can handle the supervision system/the workload. Most people who get offers tend to get an offer for deferred entry (meaning that you have to take a gap year and then join the year after) because if you’re under 18 for a significant period of time after you start, you & your behaviour is the college’s responsibility and some colleges don’t really want to take that on. For subjects like medicine, you’re also more likely to get an offer for deferred entry because you have patient contact almost immediately. 

However, getting in & starting early is not unheard of. Most people tend to be 17, though I’ve heard of one or two 16 year olds. 

[iandeleonarts]

'In 1944 he [Sartre] thought that any situation could be transcended by a subjective movement,' notes Simon de Beauvoir, but by '1951, he knew that circumstances sometimes rob us of our transcendence; against them, no individual salvation is possible, only a collective struggle.'

 - from Jonathan Judaken's introduction to Race after Sartre