UCAS 2012 - Discuss your decisions **here**

Torn between Bristol (AAA) and York (AAB) for Psychology. I'm tempted to just firm York, I'd happily spend three years there - but if I were to get the 3 As needed for Bristol and then went to York I'd feel like I was settling for second best. Then again, Bristol is significantly more expensive (to live in) than York.

Any words of wisdom? My head or my heart?

The location; as good as Southampton is, it's a bit dry over there. Although Southampton was more laid back and had better facilities.

The links that they have with F1 seemed legit, so I would say go for Southampton.

Manchester or UCL for Chemical Engineering? I've pored through the whole of TSR but I'm still undecided... HELP!

UCL - much better rep

I'm in a really tough spot here I've applied for Computer Science and I've got offers from Edinburgh, Warwick, UCL(AAA), St. Andrews(AAB) and Durham(AAB).

I'm pretty sure I don't want to go to Edinburgh/Warwick but it's really hard choosing between those last three.

I loved Durham, liked UCL and didn't really feel anything for St. Andrews.

The thing is, UCL is such fantastic university and if I firm it I think it will do good for life after university. I loved Durham however, as I do Computer Science a lot of my colleagues aren't the most sociable types (most are great people but I've met a couple of nutjobs at open days) so the collegiate system would help me break out from that sort of circle. I could happily firm Durham but UCL is a really good uni and St. Andrews is ranked #2 for CompSci (iirc).

"argh" is all I can say, I've had 2 months to think about this but it's really going nowhere.



edit: I don't really care about geographical location, and if it changes anything I've applied for deferred entry so I guess I have an extra year to reconsider but I'd have to pull out of this year's cycle.

I'm in a really tough spot here I've applied for Computer Science and I've got offers from Edinburgh, Warwick, UCL(AAA), St. Andrews(AAB) and Durham(AAB).

I'm pretty sure I don't want to go to Edinburgh/Warwick but it's really hard choosing between those last three.

I loved Durham, liked UCL and didn't really feel anything for St. Andrews.

The thing is, UCL is such fantastic university and if I firm it I think it will do good for life after university. I loved Durham however, as I do Computer Science a lot of my colleagues aren't the most sociable types (most are great people but I've met a couple of nutjobs at open days) so the collegiate system would help me break out from that sort of circle. I could happily firm Durham but UCL is a really good uni and St. Andrews is ranked #2 for CompSci (iirc).

"argh" is all I can say, I've had 2 months to think about this but it's really going nowhere.



edit: I don't really care about geographical location, and if it changes anything I've applied for deferred entry so I guess I have an extra year to reconsider but I'd have to pull out of this year's cycle.

Advice, please.

I wish to study Spanish possibly with Japanese. I was originally planning on applying to Manchester, Sheffield and some over unis but because I didn't do as well as I hoped at AS level (CCD) I had to change at the last minute to applying to Portsmouth, Coventry, UCLAN and Oxford Brookes. I got offers from Portsmouth, Coventry and UCLAN, but I wasn't very impressed with them and I think I can do a lot better at my final A-Levels.

Should I decline all my offers now and take a gap year or accept 2 offers and wait and see how I feel at results day?

I wouldn't mind taking a gap year.

I think you should firm UCL and insure Durham. You're post seems to be slightly more pro UCL and the only thing you're worried about is the social side right? Well London is a great place to meet people and lots of people make friends, that are not on their course, without a collegette system assuming you'll be living in halls.

If however you do just miss your offer on results day and end up in Durham then you'll still have somewhere great to study.

UCL.

Application sent: 7th October
Uni: Leeds
Course: Geography bsc
Decision [Offer/Rejection]: Conditional
Offer Grades: AAB
Date Offer Received:21-10-11
Reaction: Cheesy grin two offers now! Not going too badly

Advice, please.

I wish to study Spanish possibly with Japanese. I was originally planning on applying to Manchester, Sheffield and some over unis but because I didn't do as well as I hoped at AS level (CCD) I had to change at the last minute to applying to Portsmouth, Coventry, UCLAN and Oxford Brookes. I got offers from Portsmouth, Coventry and UCLAN, but I wasn't very impressed with them and I think I can do a lot better at my final A-Levels.

Should I decline all my offers now and take a gap year or accept 2 offers and wait and see how I feel at results day?

I wouldn't mind taking a gap year.

This is potentially a very silly question.... but..

I'm thinking of firming LSE which is an AAA offer - this is my lowest offer. Is it worth putting Warwick (A*AA or AAA with Merit in AEA) as insurance, just incase for example I get A*A*B which technically wouldn't meet either offer, but there's a chance one might say no to, and the other would say yes...

Or should I just not put an insurance.