The Edinburgh FAQ and 'Ask a Student' thread

I didn't receive a 'welcome pack', although I was obviously a returning student. That said, most of the stuff I received in the 'welcome pack' before I came to Edinburgh as an undergraduate turned up either via Euclid/MyEd/SMS email before I started my postgraduate degree, or was distributed in welcome meetings during freshers week.

Thanks for your help!

I received on the SMS mail the matriculation form and by post the student card form. I was wondering whether the Uni sends something about how to pay fees, for example.

International relations, maybe the course that includes public policy. No law or medicine or anything like that.

No, I sussed out fee payment myself from their website.

You mean MyEd -> My Stuff -> the Student Finance Channel?

Question for people doing History, Anthropology, Politics, any combination of those or any joint honours really: how flexible are joint honours? My interest is very inter-disciplinary and I couldn't find on the site quite how able you are to pick outside papers but also to do a 'bridge' dissertation like at York.

How flexible do you need it to be? You're required to do a certain number of credits from each subject. Your dissertation will be in one or the other, but there's clearly nothing to prevent you from writing a political History dissertation...

Just wondering if it's possible to live on £23.50 a week? That's what my loan is giving me and if I can't get a job it's all I'll have. Not really sure if I can manage that! If anyone has any experience dealing with roughly that amount how did you split the cash between things like food, going out etc? and regarding the free bus that goes around the campus, would that be able to take me to the old medical school and the geography buildings? and probably DHT too? Thank you

Ok well in that case it will be dependent on your undergraduate degree. You'll need the equivalent of a 2:i to be considered, most likely.

Well, as I mentioned, I'll meet the grade standard. My degree is a 2:i, my GPA is higher than the GPA they told me I needed to meet.

I read here earlier that if you're American/Canadian and have the GPA, you're most likely in. Is that still true or has that changed? I emailed the school adviser and they only told me of the GPA requirement and sent me to their FAQ page when I asked what standards I needed to meet. Didn't seem like there was much..

GUYS, I HAVE A HUGFE PROBLEM!
I am an international student and hence I require CAS to get a visa to study there.
However, despite emailing my department, administartion who deal with visas, and the one who gave me the offer and having sent more than 5 incidents on IS helpline, they did nothing to help me. I am in a very desperate position as they just kept lying and se3nding me off to the other guys, who cant do ****.
What can I do.
I need visa tomorrow or I am ****ed over

I don't have a modern language at GCSE but got A*, a,a at A level in Economics, politics and geography... will I definetly get rejected for International relations as they specify " at least one language at GCSE other than english" ??

Hey everyone! I'm a fresher this year and I'm studying Biological Sciences with Management. I had a question about the required Origin and Diversity of Life 1 course for all first year biological sciences students. I'm confused about the timetable for the course listed here http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/12-13/dpt/cxbilg08001.htm. How many labs do we have per week? Is it really four times a week? Any clarification would be greatly appreciated, thanks!