The "I've applied to Edinburgh for 2012 entry" chat thread

That was very quick. What was your point of entry ? Guess you had marked it as 1 in UCAS meaning you start the course from the first year?

what are your predicted IB scores?

Heard some internationals also get unconditionals ?

Point of entry was 1 and my PGs were 39/45 with 6, 7, 7 at HLs. I haven't really heard of people getting uncond. offers using only their predicted grades at this stage, although I guess if someone was really exceptional then maybe the uni will give them unconditional (although I don't think so since most unis want to know that the applicant can show commitment in the form of working hard to achieve a certain grade)? Besides, the Edinburgh offer wasn't too difficult since I also had the option of meeting a FAR easier OSSD offer (85% in math, 80% in phys, and 50% in English).

What is OSSD offer?

Congrats on your 5 year Mphys offer! Do you belong to overseas fee category? Was any fee status form sent out to you to be filled out prior to the offer?

I will have 2 formal qualifications by the time I graduate from my school. One is the IB and the other being the Ontario Secondary School Diploma which is awarded to all students in Ontario. I put 2 sets of predicted grades into my UCAS app so Edinburgh looked at both and gave me the option of meeting just one of the two.

Sadly I belong in the overseas fee category . I guess this means I'll need to somehow find a way to pay around $40,000 a year (with living fees included) for 5 years. Now I regret not choosing to go into 2nd year on my UCAS...

Don't worry bro, that's only 25k in GBP... lol

EDIT: But seriously, I swear you don't have to pay anything until you earn 15k a year or is that just for EU?

I haven't read like that on Edinburhg's website but I assume that it might be just for the EU since the whole point of Edinburgh having intl. students (besides the fact that they get a larger pool of academically inclined students to choose from) is to make money.

The thing is I don't quite see what extras they gain- I mean, even though we only have to pay 9k a year, the rest is subsidised by the government, so for the universities it's no different in terms of profit surely.

Are you a first time applicant or re-applicant?

Goodluck with your offer.

Always thought it was greed

First time certainly. Really want to hear from them soon...or from any uni actually..

Are you an american applicant with overseas fee? heard the chances of acceptance for such applicants is higher. Is it correct?

Are you an american applicant with overseas fee? heard the chances of acceptance for such applicants is higher. Is it correct?

Apply for just sociology then if you get an offer and decide to come to Edinburgh just take economics as an outside course in first year and swap your degree to it. If you haven't mentioned economics at all then you will not get an offer.

The university is a bloody charity! *sigh* At least try to understand the university system you're coming to before criticising it

Yes but surely more money = better faculty = better graduates = more prestige?

Well the university doesn't really have any problems with the quality of its graduates past or present And is doing just fine on the prestige front. But the reason they don't give out scholarships to international fee payers isn't greed - simply that they can't afford to. Scholarships go primarily to those from low income backgrounds in Scotland and the UK (and a few talented candidates), and to postgraduates.

And those 9.6% raises for the Principal don't fund themselves either!