nottingham economics offer

This may absolutely spiteful and mean (and there's not really any sensitive way to word this) but you haven't got a rejection from UCL yet?!?! There was a whole spate of rejections for L100 a few days ago and they were all given to candidates with straight A* at GCSE and straight A* predictions for A-Level.

Thanks....

Don't worry i didn't take this offensively, i agree with you. Such brilliant candidates were rejected. I don't know what's happening with my application, but no rejection so far.

Hmmm...maybe there's something they like about you! Or maybe your AEA Maths was considered such a valuable asset that they just felt the urge to give you an offer!

This may absolutely spiteful and mean (and there's not really any sensitive way to word this) but you haven't got a rejection from UCL yet?!?! There was a whole spate of rejections for L100 a few days ago and they were all given to candidates with straight A* at GCSE and straight A* predictions for A-Level.

Maybe they thought they plagiarised their PS

Also what is a 'whole spat', where these people from different schools, regions, countries, and finally how do you know this?

It's on the UCL applicants thread. I think there was a mix of people- there was certainly a mix of international and local applicants getting rejected. It also seems that people were rejected for different reasons, some for their PS, some on academic grounds, presumably less than 9 GCSE A*s as this was the cut off last year and the rejected apps had strong A levels. Still, it is very surprising that they would make such quick decisions with very strong candidates.

It's on the UCL applicants thread. I think there was a mix of people- there was certainly a mix of international and local applicants getting rejected. It also seems that people were rejected for different reasons, some for their PS, some on academic grounds, presumably less than 9 GCSE A*s as this was the cut off last year and the rejected apps had strong A levels. Still, it is very surprising that they would make such quick decisions with very strong candidates.

No, it's not.

>3000 applicants for ca. 185 places.

Even allowing for rejection of offers for LSE / Oxbridge, I bet the offer : applicant ratio is low.

in case you haven't realised danny111 a hell of a lot depends on what school you go to. if you go to a run down state school, you'd probably get in most places

Got an offer for straight economics 2 days ago

No, it's not.

>3000 applicants for ca. 185 places.

Even allowing for rejection of offers for LSE / Oxbridge, I bet the offer : applicant ratio is low.

Well I'm not saying that it is surprising that they got rejected- I am saying it is surprising they got rejected this early. UCL can't have gone through that many applications, and will not have received every application yet, so I would have thought they would wait before committing to a decision, especially with 10A* + 4A* at a level predicted candidates.

Are you saying UCL rejected the people they thought they knew would get into OXb/LSE

Well I'm not saying that it is surprising that they got rejected- I am saying it is surprising they got rejected this early. UCL can't have gone through that many applications, and will not have received every application yet, so I would have thought they would wait before committing to a decision, especially with 10A* + 4A* at a level predicted candidates.

But how many did they actually reject? 5, 10, 20? Do you know?

Are you pred all A*, and did you get all A* at GCSE

I counted 8 on the UCL thread. I presume there must be more not on TSR. I accept that they have to reject strong candidates, what I am surprised about is that they are rejecting these candidates so early. I think they would make around 300-400 offers (Oxbridge is 250+ places, LSE is another 180, some people might reject for Warwick as well). In that case the applicants to offers would be around 7-10:1. This is still very competitive, but less than the 15:1 applicantlace ratio. Now there is likely to be a significant number who are applying with far lower grades than some who got rejected, and also bad personal statements, so I would have thought they would wait before making the definitive decision to reject the people they did.

Yes (apart from general studies), but I didn't get rejected from UCL L100 and am applying for L101 anyway. Why do you ask?

I counted 8 on the UCL thread. I presume there must be more not on TSR. I accept that they have to reject strong candidates, what I am surprised about is that they are rejecting these candidates so early. I think they would make around 300-400 offers (Oxbridge is 250+ places, LSE is another 180, some people might reject for Warwick as well). In that case the applicants to offers would be around 7-10:1. This is still very competitive, but less than the 15:1 applicantlace ratio. Now there is likely to be a significant number who are applying with far lower grades than some who got rejected, and also bad personal statements, so I would have thought they would wait before making the definitive decision to reject the people they did.

Yes (apart from general studies), but I didn't get rejected from UCL L100 and am applying for L101 anyway. Why do you ask?

Speculation.

I think these guys just didn't have a good enough PS (in what UCL sees as good, they do state this in the pdf for BSc Economics).

whats the dfference between L100 and L101?