Queen Mary 2012 Applicant's Thread

Dont worry, its quite early in the year. My friend who is studying linguistics now at Warwick only got her responses after Jan

I have seen you also applied to Kings and UCL, snap! Really aiming for them but havent heard anything

I hope its noottt !!! Ermm so worried, I love QMUL but I don't think they would even look at me as predicted too low and don't have a B in Eng Lang GCSE but do have a B in Eng Lit GCSE.. soo confused as to apply or not

gona beg my maths to predict me A rather than B. Also my ref is putting B possible A for Business studies in the ref, will they consider that???

Hi Everybody ,

Thought it was time to open up a applicant thread for this year as the old reads 2011 .......... so who else is in love with Queen Mary and wants to study there?

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I swear Warwick don't do Linguistics?

She studies French and German, I generally thought that was linguistics mmmmmm XD

just got an offer for theoretical physics AAB, thanks qmul!

congratulations!
has anyone got offers for psychology? : )

congratulations!
has anyone got offers for psychology? : )

My friend got one a few weeks ago. She was an early applicant because she was applying to Oxford (Got told she would be rejected within 7 days, so she swapped it for QMUL). AAB, I think

WAAAAAAAAAAA people have got offers for english

Hey man, I also got a B in GCSE Eng Lit., but a C in the Lang. equivalent, and they still gave me an offer which at my very position is near impossible, but with a few re-sits and studying, it's possible.

I assume that Bus. Studies is going to require the same grades as Bus. Management, which I just searched up is 340 points (AAB) so with your scenario, I don't see why they should turn you down, with a little help of an enigmatic personal statement, how you're passionate about Bus. Studies and your aspirations beyond your UG course.

I hope these apply to you, but C3 is straightfoward once you've undestood the processes like Simpson's Rule, Revolutions around the Y/X axis and trigonomic identities.
However, I found C4 simpler that C3, which I got 92% rather than 83% in C3.

Which other A level are you taking also?

You have just made my day!!! Ermm yea C3 seems good apart from trig .. loll but thats in June 2012 for me. I'm doing Chemistry, Business Studies and Maths.

But I flopped my AS year, then moved schools to retake, so at a huge disadvantage for QMUL I think.

What subjects do you take?

No that's Modern Foreign Languages, very different to Linguistics which is about how language itself works.

Well I may and hope that I make your day even better by saying that you are NOT at all in any disadvantage for QM because I also flopped my first year (academic year 09/10), so during the summer just gone, I asked all the universities where I'd like to go to, asking if they'd accepted students who completed A levels in 3 years. QM replied that it was fine, which for me was a mixture of 'f*** yea' man meme and 'Freddie Mercury Rage Pose' meme (please tell me you know what I'm on about )

From my first year, normal maths was the only one I managed to do well in.
So before I started my third and final year I had an A grade for GCE Maths which was the very first real A I've ever got!
Now I'm doing A2 Further Maths, Biology and picked up AS physics. (Biology was the cause of my failure due to incompetent teacher )

Ah thank you, maths is probably the only thing that agrees with me :P

Okay, for the retakes here's what I did...

Just basically enter everything you've got (but if you got any Us (ungraded) don't put them in was what I was instructed), say for example that I just did AS maths, AS biology and AS chemistry last year, you enter the month and year you received your grades for them, (which will be probably for the same for the whole UK 'August 2011').
BUT say if you decided to a resit some (it doesn't matter if you'll only do one or even 3 for each subject) exams from the AS year, so for maths any resits, you enter 'AS maths' and for your results you put when you'll get them (like August 2012) plus your grade will be 'pending'.

So any resits will generally create a whole new AS subject. Also making it look you're doing a ton of work .

I'm doing the M2 exam again, because I need a good grade to stand a chance and I was just told at the begining of this year that instead of doing FP3, we'll be doing M3. A good thing for the those wanting to do mechanical engineering but for purists like me, it's hell

Other tips for UCAS I can provide is to make sure you've done your student finance correct, the one step before my application would have been sent, my senior tutor spotted a huge blunder. I stated that I shall apply for Norfolk student finance when I live in Suffolk, so it made me look like a fool and if it wasn't seen, I'll be in total poverty or no HE for me.

For your choices to see if it's worth appling for QMUL, it depends which other unis you're picking aswell. Essex and Keele are my backup ones, UEA for middle range, then QM and Leeds for when a miracle has landed on my many exams.

I hoped this helped, and which other unis have you considered?