UCL Applicant Thread for 2012 Entry

I really want to study Architecture or Urban Planning at UCL.
Anyone going to the free taster course there about the construction industry in July?

I am! Haha I'm guessing you are?

Yes! I'm so excited
I'm hoping the course will contribute in helping me decide exactly what I want to do at uni. Plus I've never been to UCL before!

Neither have I! (I have seen it on Google maps though xP) I'm also going to one for Engineering, because I'm not sure if I want to study Architecture or Engineering... although I think Engineering now xD

Really? Wow, I think pure Engineering would just be waaay too mathematical for me haha I'm considering Urban Planning, as I'm really not sure about Architecture anymore. Most of the feedback I get about it is negative :/

Yeh I know me too! That's why I'm thinking Engineering, Civil Engineering actually you actually don't even need a degree to design a building, that's what really started me thinking that Architecture probably isn't worth it :/ What is Urban Planning actually?

(p.s. I love math! haha)

You don't need a degree to design buildings?! :O And Urban Planning is the designing of towns and roads in order to improve communites. It also about the environment and economics, saying that I study Economics now and absolutely hate it, so maybe Urban Planning isn't actually for me :/ hahaa I sound like a confused person :')

Haha I think that everyone our age is confused really! - I feel far too young to be making such big decisions :/. And no, you don't, you need an engineer, but you don't actually need an architect...they're just useful for drawing up plans (and I don't really want to do that for the rest of my life!) I mean, of course they do design buildings, but it's very few and far between, you really have to be one of the top. I think I want to go into research though, so engineering would suit me much better than architecture!

Oh wow that sounds interesting too! with the environment is it things like reducing carbon footprint etc? That would be interesting haha maybe not so good if you hate economics already though! xD (maybe it'll be different at uni...)

Sorry, I kinda wrote an essay there :s haha

Which engineering are you going to apply for?

Yeahh, I probably won't know exactly what I want to do until I finish university :/ And wow, I didn't know that at all, now I feel even more confused about studying Architecture haha

Yeah, environmental issues really interest me, so I guess it could be fun... Though, I thought I'd like Economics before I started it and I was wrong about that hahaa :/

Haha sorry about that! Dw, if you don't like what you do in the first year, you can almost always transfer to a different course for your second year (providing you meet the requirements for the other course)

Oh yeh they're requirements are higher :/ I would have to get an A in my mechanics module for math. So it really depends if I get that, which really depends on the paper, because sometimes I get over 90 and sometimes I get just over 80 :s (over 80 is an A). So if it's a really hard paper and I get a B then there isn't really much point in me applying to Imperial!

Are you sure they need an A in mechanics module? Have they specified that? I need an A* for theoretical physics and they gave me an offer even though I only got a B in m1!!!! (Granted it was 79 but luckily my core scores are very high)

The minimum offer will normally be an A* in Mathematics plus two further A grades, one of which must be in Physics, at A-level. In addition, candidates will normally be required to obtain grade A in all their mathematics modules at the first attempt.

From their website:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/facultiesanddepartments/civilengineering/entryrequirements

I'm guessing you got an offer for 2011 entry? Well done! Is theoretical physics what you will be taking? I'm looking at civil engineering, maybe that's the difference

Heh, another IB student here, hoping to get into Psychology at UCL. Is anyone here studying Psychology there?