Civil Engineering 2016

Hi,

Does anyone know how competitive/lenient the course/offer is at Newcastle and Sheffield, as im thinking of applying for next year and i'd like to know whether they'd be letting people in with ABB instead of AAB, for example, or AAB instead of AAA

Thanks

Hi, I will hopefully be going to Sheffield this year 😁 They told us on the applicant day that they chose us based on our personal statements and that if we did drop a grade they would accept us on AAB instead of AAA

Hope this helps ☺️

Hi,

Does anyone know how competitive/lenient the course/offer is at Newcastle and Sheffield, as im thinking of applying for next year and i'd like to know whether they'd be letting people in with ABB instead of AAB, for example, or AAB instead of AAA

Thanks

Hi,

If you missed the conditions of your offer by one grade (eg you were made an offer of AAB but got ABB) then you would count as a near miss. This means your application would be reconsidered again together when A Level results are published in August. Whether we are able to accept near miss students depends on the number of applicants who have met the conditions of their offers and the number of places we have available on our programmes; however preference is given to those who have committed to us as their firm choice.

Hope that helps!

Persephone

Is this a university policy, or engineering dept policy?

And does that, in your scenario, mean all Firm ABBs will be given preference before you look at Insurance applicants, and then look at Clearing applicants?

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The advice to most applicants is that if they just miss out on the conditions of their offer then their application will be reconsidered at results time. They may confirm their place if there are places available. This however changes each year e.g. in one year, more applicants may achieve their conditions and there will be fewer spaces for applicants with lower grades. Another year there may be less applicants who have achieved the conditions of their offer so there will be more places available for those who are considered to be a near miss.

Results are checked for both Firm and Insurance applicants together, because some Insurance may become Firm if they do not achieve the conditions of their Firm choice and achieve the conditions for Newcastle. They then automatically become Firm with Newcastle. So we look at Firm and Insurance results together.

Clearing students are those who apply to us once they have achieved their results on 18th August, so it will be after results have been considered for Firm and Insurance and generally only those who have achieved ABB or above will be accepted.

This is the simplest explanation although it is a lot more complicated than this. My advice is that if they achieve the conditions of their offer, then they will confirm their place. If they are a near miss, then nothing is guaranteed other than, their application will be reconsidered.

Hi,

Straight from the horse's mouth (the Civil Engineering Admissions Officer)
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Hope that helps!

Persephone

Hi, I will hopefully be going to Sheffield this year 😁 They told us on the applicant day that they chose us based on our personal statements and that if we did drop a grade they would accept us on AAB instead of AAA

Hope this helps ☺️

Is that for the entire uni in general or just the engineering department?

Are there any universities with low entry requirements?

Are there any universities with low entry requirements?

I am one of the intenational offer holder from Newcastle university civil engineering. I have a question about my English requirement. In the UCAS track, it didn't require anything on my offer letter for English requirement . It is mean I can get into Newcastle university as long as I meet my grade requirement ?

Hi

Can you send us a private message with your full name and UCAS number and we will look into it for you

Isabella

Hi everyone, the University of Surrey has some limited places on Civil Engineering (2016 entry) through Adjustment and Clearing. If your results were not quite what you expected (or better than you hoped) take a look at our site: http://ow.ly/117O303m1HC and give our team a call

Sorry with quoting this post since what I'm asking is not related to this but its about the course and University of Surrey. I got high grades but I saw on the website that civil engineering isn't in the merit bursary scheme, is this true as most other engineering courses have it?

I have applied to Imperial, Bath, Bristol, Southampton CivEng and Cambridge Eng.

Civil Engineering is awesome!!!!

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