St Andrews Applicants 2012

Hello,

I'm an IB student from Thailand and received my conditional offer for Politics and Philosophy a couple of days ago.

Anybody here applied for the same course?

im also an American who's gotten an unconditional offer from St. Andrews. It's because in America, we take APs and SATs continuously. In UK, many students take the majority of their exams their senior year, and won't get scores until after they'll have recieved offers.

Imagine if all APs and SATs were taken senior year, and we only told US schools our predicted scores, I suspect we would get conditional offers there as well

Don't get me wrong- I'm not saying that it's unfair that Americans in particular get positive responses; it's not fair because they get unconditionals (which are rarely given off to non-American students regardless of the time of the year) in October-November!

I think it's all because of the money, because Americans get to pay a whole load more and that's why like 20% of the student body in St. Andrews is American (at least that's what I hear from people currently studying there...)
It seems to me that Americans are treated differently, a bit like VIPs

I mean, all American schools give unconditionals, theres no such concept of a conditional offer so it may have something to do with that, but as I said before university is super expensive in the States. And as the VIP status go, I think that its unfair to say that Americans only get in because of money. It might say why they focus on recruiting in the states more, but I don't think it can be said that the American Students who are there are not good students (sort of tooting my own horn here, but Im trying to be objective and talk about the american students in general xD).
Also, what do you mean by "get to pay a load more"? Lol, much as I want to go here, Im not necessarily queuing up to hand them all my money, which unfortunately because of international costs and living costs (curse the weak dollar) is closer to the reality of things than I'd like it to be haha.

Same. I love all the quirky traditions they have.

in regards to visiting days, it says on the website they start at 9:15am, but do you have to be there at 9:15 on the dot or can you come and go as you please?

in regards to visiting days, it says on the website they start at 9:15am, but do you have to be there at 9:15 on the dot or can you come and go as you please?

Has anyone from the UK heard back about physics? :/

the only thing that is putting me off with St Andrews is people have said its not as modern as other unis? Like I hear the library is in appalling condition. Also I just got an offer from Glasgow and I'd love to go there as well If only I could go to all the unis O.O

I help out at Visiting Days, so I can tell you a little about them. Basically there are different things happening during the day, which are all very useful for applicants, so if you can make it, definitely try to spend as much time in the town as you can. The schedule is relatively tight, so even if one or two things do not sound very interesting to you, that gives you time to have a look around, maybe visit a hall you are interested in, or just fetch a current student to ask questions. There will be a welcome talk, town guided tours, hall tours, information talks and subject talks, where you get to meet staff and students.
Also try to register because when we know you are coming, we'll be able to make it an even better experience for you

Hope that sheds some light on the Visiting Days, but please feel free to ask more

Nope. You can pick a registration time up to around 11:30/11:45

I've applied for [Classical Civilisation and Film Studies