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Throughout its history, the university has featured in literature and artistic works by various authors.

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Admissions edit UCAS admission statistics 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Applications 17,235 16,795 16,505 16,970 16,330 Offer Rate (%) 31.2 33.8 33.5 32.5 32.2 Enrols 3,480 3,440 3,430 3,425 3,355 Yield (%) 64.7 60.6 62.0 62.1 63.8 Applicant/Enrolled Ratio 4.95 4.88 4.81 4.95 4.87 Average Entry Tariff note n/a 226 592 600 601 Procedure edit Undergraduate applications to Cambridge must be made through UCAS in time for the early deadline, currently mid-October in the year before starting. Until the 1980s candidates for all subjects were required to sit special entrance examinations, since replaced by additional tests for some subjects, such as the Thinking Skills Assessment and the Cambridge Law Test. The university is considering reintroducing an admissions exam for all subjects with effect from 2016. The university gave offers of admission to 33.5% of its applicants in 2016, the 2nd lowest amongst the Russell Group, behind Oxford. The
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Notable alumni and academics

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Over the course of its history, a number of Cambridge University academics and alumni have become notable in their fields, both academic and in the wider world. As of October 2020, 121 affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won 122 Nobel prizes (Frederick Sanger won twice), with 70 former students of the university having won the prize. In addition, as of 2019, Cambridge alumni, faculty members and researchers have won 11 Fields Medals and 7 Turing Awards. Mathematics and sciences edit Among the most famous of Cambridge natural philosophers is Sir Isaac Newton, who conducted many of his experiments in the grounds of Trinity College. Others are Sir Francis Bacon, who was responsible for the development of the scientific method and the mathematicians John Dee and Brook Taylor. Pure mathematicians include G. H. Hardy, John Edensor Littlewood, Mary Cartwright and Augustus De Morgan; Sir Michael Atiyah, a specialist in geometry; William Oughtred, inventor of the logarithmic scale; J
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Organisation and administration

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