The Official Ask Aston Thread

Hi,

This one is one for our engineering admissions team, if you shoot an email at [email protected] they should be in touch with you at some point.

Sorry i couldn't be of more help.

Josh

Hiya,
I am a year 12 student who recently found out about the scholarship programme for Aston's Medical School for disadvantaged students at partner schools in the area. Seeing as my school has partnered up with the uni I had a look online to find a deadline for application forms to be submitted and found that for the first cohort of students, applications would open in April of year 12 and close in May. 100 successful students would then be chosen to participate in the programme. Does this mean that I can no longer apply because we are now in June and most likely for the second cohort of students the applications would open the following year where I will no longer be in year 12?

Many thanks.

Going into panic mode, applied for English Lang but think I'm going to get CCD..

what are the chances of being offered a joint honours with them grades if the course is under subscribed or would that be a straight rejection?? thanks

Hey,

So I am an Int. Business and Management offer holder for DBB (Which I am skeptical about getting into with my expected D*BC), and I had a few questions.

I received an email stating that changes had been made to IBAM's Programme Specification (with a revised .PDF) on the 9th May, however, I am unable to identify the changes as it does not state them directly. Is there any easier way to see these changes?

Secondly, would the number of students applying for a course affect admissions? I respect that you can't give too much info regarding admissions, but IBAM (at least on the offer holder's open day) seemed extremely empty in comparison to the Marketing course, for example. Whilst I would expect there to be a fair few international students who couldn't make the open day (especially on IBAM), I wouldn't have imagined that it would make the course any closer to the number of students taking more popular courses. Would this mean that,since there are less students contesting and competing for the course, they will be more flexible with accepting grades that did not meet the requirements?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Lenny

Hi, I think I made a mistake for the course I put down on ucas. Do you think it'd be possible if I emailed Aston and asked them to change my offer for a different course? Or would I have to go through the clearing process

Is it possible if I miss my offer this year to get in through clearing for the foundation year?

Hi! I'm interested in going to Aston as my first choice to study Computer science and taking a placement year, for my placement year, I was thinking about going abroad ideally to New Zealand because I think it's a really nice country for work and leisure. The problem is that New Zealand isn't a country under the Erasmus Programme, does this mean that I would be unable to do a work placement in New Zealand and instead choose a country within the programme?
Or would I have to find my own work placement?

Hi Josh, I've applied to Aston for Psychology (firm). I had a small question regarding parking. I've read on the website that the campus doesn't accommodate for student parking officially. It has stated that there are some roads, but these are usually "snapped up early". I actually ride a motorbike and was wondering if it would be at all possible to bring this onto campus somewhere and park. Is there anything suitable like this for a motorbike, maybe near the accommodation on campus (as I intend to be living in halls)? Motorbikes do tend to be inconspicuous compared to cars when it comes to parking ^^

Thanks!
Yahya

What is date does the term begin for freshers, UCAS says that it starts on the 1st October which does seem very late but on the Aston website it says the 21st September? Is the date on UCAS for the beginning of my course which is International business?

Hey all :-)

Just got my accommodation offer, anyone else staying in James Watt? I'm studying Politics and International relations. Buzzing.

See you there

I applied for Computer Science at Aston back in early April, immediately sent documents that were asked of me in May and they said that they'd get back to me with a response.
Still waiting...
Called and asked and they said the application was still being considered by the programme director, they won't give me a simple yes or no so I can at least plan for something else.

Aston is the university that I'd most like to study at. However, by July 14th UCAS just deems any application that hasn't had a response as unsuccessful and they said that they're aware of this. That's what I'm worried is happening here, my application will just run up to that date and then automatically be unsuccessful, what would be the point of making me wait for so long if they're just going to do that?

I feel like I'm being held hostage here because I can't make any contingency plans until I've had a response through UCAS. Again, Aston is the university I most want to study at but it's looking more and more like they're just waiting until the cut off date. I don't know what to do. They said not to withdraw my application because it's still being considered...

Could someone ask the programme director to check it please? I can provide my UCAS number and Aston Applicant ID by private message.

Thanks.