Guidance sent to admissions tutors: No information is held.

Principles governing admissions: Information relating to admissions is set out in our Undergraduate prospectus - please see the following link:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/howtoapply/admissionrequirements

Average offers of A-level grades: Average A-level score on entry data is published on the College’s annual statistical yearcard by subject and as an overall average. The most recently available data relates to the intake 2006-2007 and can be found at the following link at the top right of the 4th page:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/20901696.PDF

Any restrictions on the A-level subjects that are acceptable (eg, some universities operate policies stating that candidates offering more than one subject out of a given list will not be ordinarily be offered a place.)? Again, this may be found in the Undergraduate prospectus at the following link:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/howtoapply/admissionrequirements

Information on a Departmental basis may be found by checking Departmental websites. For example, for Aeronautics, please see the following:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/facultiesanddepartments/aeronautics/entryrequirements

A list of links to all Departments can be found on this page:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/facultiesanddepartments

Details of the process by which a candidate’s background is taken into account in deciding whether to offer them a place (for example, credit being given to those who would be the first in their family to attend university; credit being given to those from schools which do not achieve good A-level grades): Further information about the way the the College selects students may be found in our Undergraduate prospectus at the following link:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/howtoapply/selectionprocedure

Should you also be interested in the Postgraduate application process, you will find information about applying for postgraduate courses in the following section of our Postgraduate prospectus:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/applicationforms

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