Is UCL really a good uni?

Maybe you should have read the post more carefully. The OP is French so he has home fee status.

And answer to the question, I don't really know why I have a feeling that getting into UCL is quite easy as long as you got the grades, although people keep telling me how competitive the uni is.

They will get three times as much for the tuition fees, for overseas students. Unis like overseas students because they give them more money. That is probably why they are keen to have 20 French students comig from your school.

Except for Law and Economics, UCL isn't particularly competitive and never has been really. That's not to say it's a bad uni, but I think the unfortunate THES ranking that put it as 4th in the world (which are complete ******** by the way; 4 UK unis in the top 6? Come on...I think even a top 20 with nothing but US unis would be more credible than that) has created a completely skewed view of it. It's a solid, top 10 UK Uni.

4th best uni in the world.

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They will get three times as much for the tuition fees, for overseas students. Unis like overseas students because they give them more money. That is probably why they are keen to have 20 French students comig from your school.

I seem to get the picture from what I've heard it's harder to get into LSE>ICL>KCL>UCL. Like OP has said alot of my classmates have recieved offers from UCL but less from the more "prestigious uni" like LSE, ICL or KCL. IMO UCL isn't picking the most able students but instead giving offers to whomever that makes the grades. Even though alot of courses at UCL is still require high grades like 3A or 2A/1B, maybe they think their not first choice in alot of the student's application and those who got offers would go to another Uni.

For example: I know a girl who spent 4 years at college studying for her A-levels and while I was 3 years younger than her- she was still in my C1 exam so lets face it she wasnt the most able person in the world. But she still got an offer at UCL studying Chemical Engineering, a tough and demanding course.

Final note: I think UCL is a good university, their not high ranked for no reason. But I don't think they're as competitive as they're rival Uni's like LSE or ICL.

Hope this helped.

No one with any real knowledge of London unis would rate KCL as 'more prestigious' or better than UCL.

KCL>UCL in terms of prestige - i think not. UCL is much better than KCL for prestige and generally. much better depts and much better quality of teaching and research. for law KCL might be slightly different but certainly not as good as UCL

an offer does not guarantee a place, if she can meet the grades then they're good enough. they only have predictions to go on, they can't see actual module marks + she might have been resitting C1 on an A to get a higher A - a very sensible decision imo.

ICL and LSE are better for different reasons. it's because they are specialists for individual subjects - UCL is ranked top 30 in the world for every subject it offers, which imo is much better as you meet people that are incredibly good in lots of different areas. UCL is an excellent university and you shouldn't dislike it because they give offers.

think before you write...

1) The girl I was talking about probably resat C1 more than just a couple of times. The point I was trying to get across is she wasnt good university material. Okay?

2) I never said I dislike UCL because they give out offer to whoever, i was simply replying to what OP has asked whether UCl is a good uni. I'm entitled to my own opinion and I will express them how I will. Think before you write.

UCL's definitely in the top 5 of the UK(...though NOT 4th in the world - THE-QS World University Rankings is a joke, according to it LSE is 67th in the world and Chicago is better than Princeton.)

Getting an offer from UCL is a big deal, don't snub it just because you don't rate people who got in!

UCL's definitely in the top 5 of the UK(...though NOT 4th in the world - THE-QS World University Rankings is a joke, according to it LSE is 67th in the world and Chicago is better than Princeton.)

Getting an offer from UCL is a big deal, don't snub it just because you don't rate people who got in!