York Applicants 2012!!

Why'd you choose to re-apply? Course wasn't right?

erm well GCSEs are (all including btecs erghhhh)
roughly, 4A*10A,2Bs...

AS, AABBC (english lit, general studies (lol) history, economics, french)
with retakes, at A2, i'm now on effectively A*ABB (english lit, history, economics, gen studs)

so yeah, not brilliant.

my coursework was on the Boer War. SO BORING. I wish we could have done the USSR etc..

Youve done pretty well then, im sure theyll consider you. on the exam paper we've gotta do irish history from 1798 - 1921.., it would made the boer war look like a roller coaster lolol.

What other offers you got?

Yeah, plus I wasn't 100% happy with the uni I was at either. Dyou think you'll firm?

hahaha. that's such a long period!

I have 3 rejections!
And 1 offer from Queen Mary, so that looks my best options, what about yourself?

I dont think i really did my research lol, i liked york and UEA from the start, but when i went to birmingham it werent for me, oxford brookes was like if i really c*cked up but luckily that hasnt been the case. and of course the rejection from warwick.

Im still a bit stuck about which one to choose, people keep telling me to go for the prestige of york but ive gotta spend 3 years there so i want to ensure i like it. They havent told me when the visit day is yet, maybe there filling the course and will tell everyone at once.

Have you applied for h/p at york too?

yup, H+P. i live about 40mins away from York, so quite familiar with it. really nice place, perhaps not the liveliest, but there's lots of benefits of the uni and the area

I have an interview at York Law School next Wednesday, what can I expect?

I'm going to assume that a suit is not needed but the dress code would smart-casual.

Any help would be great.

I went for the interview last week and got an offer yesterday.Smart casual should suffice.They are really nice and they make you feel right at home.In all likelihood i will be going to study there.All the best,just be yourself,i guess.

Just firmed my offer for English/History from York Good to see there are going to be other people who took gap years though, I was getting worried I'd be the only one (no one else I knew decided to choose the 9,000 a year fees..)
Just a quick question, have they asked anyone else to send them exam certificates? They asked for a PDF copy so I just scanned them in and uploaded them but they haven't acknowledged them...

Just firmed my offer for English/History from York Good to see there are going to be other people who took gap years though, I was getting worried I'd be the only one (no one else I knew decided to choose the 9,000 a year fees..)
Just a quick question, have they asked anyone else to send them exam certificates? They asked for a PDF copy so I just scanned them in and uploaded them but they haven't acknowledged them...

Yeh, they asked for digital copies of my certificates as well, should really get round to scanning them sometime...

I've got 2 offers for English, one at York and one at St Andrews and I really can't decide. York sounds amazing, course wise and socially but there's just something so depressing about the campus....I am yet to visit St As so I don't really have anything to compare it to yet.....

Did they ask to see them after you firmed or when they sent you the offer? they havent contacted me since giving me an offer, im still waiting to be invited to a visit day.

They asked to see them as the condition of my offer, think they just changed it to unconditional at last though..can't check because UCAS chooses today to be down for maintenance
York took ages to contact me, about a month :/ Most of the information about their visit days is on that You@York website though, that's where I had to book on mine.

Did they ask to see them after you firmed or when they sent you the offer? they havent contacted me since giving me an offer, im still waiting to be invited to a visit day.

I haven't heard from them either. I rang them up to ask when I might get my You@York login and the lady on the phone says that they're in the process of dealing with it.

I asked when the visit days might be and she said that unfortunately Wednesday was the last Hisotyr one but that there will be a general open day on the 27th of April so I should plan to come to that one.