If you don't get the grades you need, will you be ringing round the ex-polys?

The number of places available in Clearing at top universities are going to be very low this year. Will those of you who applied to top universities be ringing round the ex-polys if you don't get the grades you need?

Reply 1

username271381

14

I won't. If I miss both my offers, I'll reapply next year with whatever grades I get. In my involuntary gap year, I'll try and pick up a journalism course somewhere and work a lot, and if I'm rejected from everywhere next year I'll try and carry on with the journalism.

Reply 2

booraad

OP

14

Quail

I won't. If I miss both my offers, I'll reapply next year with whatever grades I get. In my involuntary gap year, I'll try and pick up a journalism course somewhere and work a lot, and if I'm rejected from everywhere next year I'll try and carry on with the journalism.

Funnily enough an ex-poly has one of the best Journalism courses in the country - University of Westminster.

Reply 3

username271381

14

booraad

Funnily enough an ex-poly has one of the best Journalism courses in the country - University of Westminster.

Well sadly it's not really journalism I want to do - I've applied for Linguistics, and journalism would just be my emergency fallback. Work experience is so important for journalism though, so I think I'd do that and gain the qualification outside of a uni rather than spend however many thousands it is doing the course at a uni! Fingers crossed it won't come to that though :smile:

Reply 4

Aphotic Cosmos

17

booraad

Funnily enough an ex-poly has one of the best Journalism courses in the country - University of Westminster.

As does DMU next door to Leicester.

Don't discount ex-polys, they're very competitive for some courses.

I would have considered ex-polys in clearing, but none were offering courses that I liked. It was a choice between Bangor for Ocean Science, Leicester and Aberdeen for Geography and Newcastle for GIS.