I have an offer from Bangor for 2010/2011 thread

I know people who got on to chemistry with only a C and a D in chemistry and biology respectively. with anything above 180 you'll be accepted by bangr, and if you are a high achieving student who they thing has potential once you've been through the open days and the interviews they may even up your offer to an unconditional.

if you put bangor sown as your firm i gaurentee you 100% you'll get in regardless... i'd be so sure of it i'd even put money on it.

I got an offer from Bangor yesturday (21st oct) for psychology of 380 points, i was shocked as this is much higher than I was expecting (more or less 100 points higher). I was intending to use Bangor as my insurance, but they want AABc and thats my predictions exactly and that will be a struggle as it is

Do you know why it's so high? Is it because it's a popular course or is there another reason?
On the site it says 300-280, and 380 is way higher. If you got lower than the conditional offer of 380, would they still let you in? Because I'm panicking about that as well haha.

Cheers,

soph_dawth

Also, interviews??????????????? what??????????????????????????

They're informal interviews at Bangor. DON'T panic about them. The only way they will affect your offer is by reducing it. (If you do well in your interview they might lower your offer)
All I did in mine was chat about running around as Vikings and about Tolkien. It was fun (My offer didn't get lowered BTW but it was 240 points which was low anyway. )

Silly Bangor

my head of year wantstoring them up anyway
saying that its stupid giving me higher than russel group unis (and therefore it disadvantages them as I may be more likly to go to a moreprestigage uni)

ahh this is sooo difficult!!

part of me wishes i only had 2 offers rather than 5 so that i didnt have tochoose lol!!!!!!

Why is he ringing them up when they said they'd let you in if you met the standard offer? And if what Daniel Williams said is correct, they'll probably let you in even if you miss that.

You mean you get interviewed AFTER getting an offer? =S I haven't heard anything about this. They said before though that higher offers were because of higher potential, so by that logic, doing well at interview would make your offer even higher... Though they also said that a higher offer wouldn't affect you getting in if you missed it, so it's effectively just the standard offer in practice. All a bit weird.

They're informal interviews after you've got your offer. Just so they can learn at little bit more about you, for you to learn a bit more about the uni and if you do well at the interview then they'll lower your offer. Oh and you'll also get shown around the library (it's like Hogwarts ) and stuff.
Aber uni does them as well. Seriously, they are really good. They made up my mind about which uni I was going to. (Bangor was lovely and informal and friendly (plus the person who interviewed me was amazing... he's now my personal tutor ) whereas Aber was pretty regimented and they lowered my offer for simply saying that the issues medieval historians might have compared to modern historians is lack of primary sources and then what primary sources there are being in Old/Middle English or even Old Welsh (being at Aber) and so then you have translation issues. )

In the 2008-2009 academic year, Bangor Psychology open days were fortnightly on a wednesday throughout the second semester (End Jan+). Probably very similar this year.

Ok cool. What time of year is that? Is it at the open day things? I got a form about those through the post. Is it for all subjects? I applied for psychology as did the other people in this thread with offers. Sorry about all the questions.