Speech and Language Therapy entry 2012

Hallo

I'm applying after an English Lang/Lit degree and I'm 23, so we're pretty similar! I don't think it'll be a negative thing at all... I know lots of people applying who are late twenties or thirties, so I think we'll still be fairly youngish! Also, the course seems to favour mature students and I've been told it can sometimes be quite handy on placements.

I've applied to Leeds and Manchester too... but only submitted my app yesterday, so got a long wait!

How long does it take to receive your welcome pack and log-ins for Track??

Also - I went to the Manchester open day but they did say that the room we had the talk in isn't one of their usual lecture rooms. I think they said the usual rooms are pretty old... Other than that though, it seemed like a v organised course.


edit - I asked the lecturer at Manchester if they had many people on the undergrad course who already had degrees, and she said 'yes - about two thirds'!

You should get your login details within a week, but you can try logging in with your previous details too. They might have changed them because you've applied via UCAS before though

Yeah I tried logging in, but computer said noooo.

D'oh. Okay. I'll just have to be patient. Apparently they don't actually send it to the universities for 48 hours, so it's a bit soon for me to start checking it

Also - I heard UCAS only updates twice a day, so that'll stop me checking it every 5 minutes haha.

Nothing from Reading yet?? What on earth are they up to...

It might not have been processed yet but it doesn't usually take that long.

It definitely updates more than twice though - or atleast, email updates are sent to you telling you about changes at any time of the day. I tend to just check my emails because it's less hassle

Nothing at all. I'm contemplating setting up an elaborate ruse involving emailing them from someone elses email to find out when Are they definitely doing questionnaires this year? It doesnt say anything on their course page

Yeah at their open day they said they definitely are. Emailing them might be a good idea Just set up a free hotmail email address if you don't want to use your own! Haha

Yeh, MCR seems really cool and modern, my cousins just started a biochemistry degree there and she loves it! I studied in Bangor, didn't know what I wanted to do to begin with, just loved language so thought this would be a good choice as it was quite diverse; journalism, teaching, forensics etc, turns out my boyfriends aunty is a SaLT and I went to do some work ex with her and loved it! I didn't do amazing in my ALevels, messed about a bit in 6th form so only got 2 ALevels in Eng lit and bio, concerned that will be against my app, I got a 2:1 in linguistics degree so hopefully they'll look at that and ignore the rest !!!!!!!

Where do you wana go? I'd love to go to Leeds too- such a good city!! Plus the course content is really interesting.

Michaela

It might not have been processed yet but it doesn't usually take that long.

It definitely updates more than twice though - or atleast, email updates are sent to you telling you about changes at any time of the day. I tend to just check my emails because it's less hassle

Nothing at all. I'm contemplating setting up an elaborate ruse involving emailing them from someone elses email to find out when Are they definitely doing questionnaires this year? It doesnt say anything on their course page

I spoke to the admissions tutor when I wen't on a campus tour last week and she said they are

Did she say when? I'm so impatient!

nope just said that they take your personal statement, grades, reference and questionnaire and then grade it all and basically those with the best mark gets a place :/ i'm so scared!

I got an offer from UWIC!!! Wooooooo so happy!

Wow, well done! Thats amazing they got back so fast You're officially the first offer too!

Awh thanks! Have you applied there too?

No, they were very strict with their GCSE foreign language requirement when I emailed them

Someone should start up a list of offers

Oh no what a pain! It's annoying how you don't realise these things until they are needed Yeah definitely!

I would have loved to take one but my GCSE school didn't run them, so it's not even actually my fault, but they said that i'd be at a disadvantage

Well I'm sure you'll be happy at whatever uni you end up in anyway and i suppose if the course needs the students to have a language background or they'd find it too difficult then you might not have enjoyed it as much which would be a shame! What's your top choice?

I got an offer from UWIC!!! Wooooooo so happy!