The gap year and reapplying questions thread

UCL is super competitive!! My friend got 3A*s & an A and she didn't even make the cut. I'm baffled as to what they look for in their students..... I'm thinking Leicester, Lancaster, Nottingham, Queen Marys & Huddersfield (just because my friend goes there lol. How pathetic am I ). What unis are u thinking and what course are you going to do? xx

I know :/ worst things was - Leeds (my insurance) said they would have accepted me if I had put them as their firm! aldfhshfuashdfiu!!!! The summer exams this year were seriously hard! did you do OCR chem? ohmygad :| that exam was the one that failed me. If you put what you got last year in the modules section - they will see that you got A's previously that's what I plan to do anyway!

I've been quite lucky with my gap year plans, I have a job (which i've had for the past year and a half), I also managed to get a volunteer placement at the Science Museum in London and I'm volunteering in Tanzania for 3 months in the summer I understand why your parents are so protective though - the world is a scary place these days! I'm going with Camps International though, and they seem like a really good, safety-conscious company I'm also doing a load of re-sits, and visiting friends across the country at their uni's

Ouch, yeh: they put a lot by the PS and interview.....

Nice . I applied to Leicester, Lancaster and Queen Mary last year: they're all really nice, especially Leicester. I'm doing the opposite: applying to places where I don't know anyone : Oxford, UCL, Warwick, St Andrew's and York for English .

Preparing for the ELAT has already begun to take over my life.....I get distracted by TSR though.... xx

should I, in your opinion, write in my personal statement about my retaking and reapplying, or just send off my Personal statement as it was last year?

I've got two quick questions for other on their gap year.

1. How do you get the reference section filled out on ucas?

1. How do you get the reference section filled out on ucas?

Aww thats really sad but I guess everything happens for a reason . Yh I did OCR chemistry (not the salters one tho) but I really struggled with chemistry since unit 2, if I wasn't obsessed with getting into medicine then I would have dropped it after AS. What other subjects are you doing? I'm hoping like crazy that I can do well in it this time around cos I feel like I know the info but I just can't put it down on paper *sniff sniff*+ my chemistry teacher was always on my case & i really wanted to prove her wrong. I couldn't, unfortunately . Hopefully my biology and maths will save me on ucas! Wow, your year sound really exciting. I promised my little brother that I'll take him on holiday once he finishes his GCSEs so I'm looking forward to that and I'm going to find some other things to do. I joined the gym so I'm going to try and improve my stamina and run a marathon . I'm all talk tho so I 'll see if actually go through with it hehe. How many resits are you doing?

Is it crucial to add what I'm planning to do in this gap year in my PS? I've used all 4,000 characters and don;t know what to get rid off! I think its a pretty good statement (last year i got offers from birmingham, queen mary and oxford brookes).. As in I really want to add it becasue I';ve got an internship planned and work experience I did over the summer. Though I alaready have work experience and charity work down from last time, I feel that adding what I've done since then and what I'm going to do will help. But I have no space left...
What to do?
Thanks

Is ELAT just for Oxford?
You're applying to AMAZING universities !!
I literally chose my universities at the last minute last year, I just wanted to go to UEA but I'm to embarrassed to apply there again hehe. What are you resitting? xx

I really disliked my chemistry teacher also! & really want to prove her wrong in my re-sits!! I'm doing 4 re-sits altogether, what about you? - I only really needed to do 2 for chemistry (I'm doing F324 + F325) but thought I might as well re-take some biology to see if I can get my grade from a B to an A as I was pretty close to that also! I did Chemistry, Biology, English Lit and German. you?
ahh a holiday sounds lovely! you must get on well with your brother! I really need to join the gym also - just finding the motivation at the moment! But a marathon sounds cool my cousin took a gap year last year & he ran the london marathon!

Yh I need to work up the stamina cos after 5 mins on the treadmill at the gym I'm hyperventilating and dying lol but I really enjoy it. I was dreading it at the beginning but once I started going I couldn't wait to go again!
My chemistry teacher probably wouldn't even care, she thought I was a joke but we'll prove them wrong . I'm doing 8 exams, I'm adamant to get an A* in maths and an A* in Biology would be a bonus. Did u do edexcel snab by any chance for biology? xx

Yup, although UCL have another test they give you if you get an interview.

Yeh I chose mine at the last minute last year as well. If you want to go to UEA, apply! There's no room to be embarrassed about stuff like this: there's no point, you'll never know if you would have got in if you don't apply, the worst that can happen is that you don't get an offer: it wouldn't be the end of the world: embarrassment doesn't come into it. I got rejected by UCL last year and I'm applying again.

Not resitting anything . You? xx

8! 8! I take my hat off to you good sir,

Haha. I'm no sir
How many are you doing?

Ah lucky you! I'm resitting quite a few exams specially for maths . I don't actually think my hearts in UEA anymore so I don't want to waste an option . Your ucas must be pretty much ready to be sent off soon if you're applying to Oxford right? xx