[fresherEU]

How long take to receive unconditional after sending certificates via EUCLID?

[sfreilly]

has anyone been allocated Fraser Court for 1st year accommodation?

[Oldshoesandsocks]

(Original post by fresherEU)
How long take to receive unconditional after sending certificates via EUCLID?

Shame nobody has answered this question as I would really like to know tooooooo

[nosceteipsummm]

(Original post by Oldshoesandsocks)
Shame nobody has answered this question as I would really like to know tooooooo

I really think it depends on the program. It took about a week after having my referee (postgraduate application) send in a letter of recommendation to receive an unconditional offer.

Anyways, I definitely have a place to live in Edinburgh now! £300 a month for a single room (utilities included), very central location, and only 1.5 miles from the gardens (which is where my course will be taught). I'm a pretty happy camper.

[rmk26]

Did anyone else get a strange maths offer? I'm a Northern Ireland applicant and got an offer of AAA for maths and physics. I thought this would be grand, but I did my maths A-Level maths in one year (getting an A*) and have been told that it doesn't count towards my offer. They want AAA in one year - which seems a bit silly seeing as my offer for a maths degree now depends on English Literature when I will have three which are directly relevant to the course (maths, further maths and physics). They sent me an email saying AAA in one year was typical of all their maths offers so was curious to know if any others had come across the same problem.

[oxymoronic]

(Original post by rmk26)
Did anyone else get a strange maths offer? I'm a Northern Ireland applicant and got an offer of AAA for maths and physics. I thought this would be grand, but I did my maths A-Level maths in one year (getting an A*) and have been told that it doesn't count towards my offer. They want AAA in one year - which seems a bit silly seeing as my offer for a maths degree now depends on English Literature when I will have three which are directly relevant to the course (maths, further maths and physics). They sent me an email saying AAA in one year was typical of all their maths offers so was curious to know if any others had come across the same problem.

That's fairly normal in terms of Edinburgh wanting all of their grades in one sitting - it will more than likely say that in your offer.

I would say the reasoning is that it is obviously much easier to meet an AAA offer if you already have an A* in the bag as then it's basically an AA offer which is relatively easy. The university wants to see that you can achieve at a very high standard with a "normal" work load and the normal work load is 3 full A levels in one academic year.

Annoying yes given you've applied for maths, but it's fairly standard practice at most universities. With maths in particular universities are also interested in seeing that you're able to function beyond the world of maths so it would be unlikely that you would be allowed to use maths + further maths + one other A level to meet your offer, particularly given you already had the A level maths grade. If you do exceptionally well and get A* in maths then it's highly probable that you'll also do well in further maths, which is why universities want to see a breath of study rather than just a focus on maths. It could be that the only reason you even got the offer in the first place was because English literature is a very different subject to maths/physics and made you stand out from other applicants who generally offer your combination plus another science.

(Original post by nosceteipsummm)
Anyways, I definitely have a place to live in Edinburgh now! £300 a month for a single room (utilities included), very central location, and only 1.5 miles from the gardens (which is where my course will be taught). I'm a pretty happy camper.

Where's the gardens?
The only ones I can think of are Princes Street gardens and I highly doubt you're being taught there
Or the botanical gardens, I guess if you're doing something like botany? But even then I wouldn't expect you to be there all of the time!
Where will you be staying anyway?

[nosceteipsummm]

(Original post by oxymoronic)


Where's the gardens?
The only ones I can think of are Princes Street gardens and I highly doubt you're being taught there
Or the botanical gardens, I guess if you're doing something like botany? But even then I wouldn't expect you to be there all of the time!
Where will you be staying anyway?

Bingo, the Royal Botanic Gardens! I'm getting my MSc in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants, and it's jointly taught by the RBGE and the university; the handbook says it's almost all taught at the gardens (odd, I know)! I found private housing in New Town.

[cyre]

I've got unconditional firm on ucas now (ten days after sending my grades per email, maybe six days after Edinburgh went from being my insurance to firm, if anyone still needs an estimate).
I was wondering, does that mean I'm done with the process and they don't need further certificates? Because I sent them the paper notifying students of their exam results, not the full graduation certificate with official translation. Didn't get any reaction on Euclid either, just on ucas. I should (and probably will) just go write them an email about it to make sure anyway, but maybe someone here knows.

[Gales]

Who do you go to see about a course change?

[Ocarinaoftime]

(Original post by Gales)
Who do you go to see about a course change?

I don't know this for certain but I think these changes can be made during Fresher week, like when you choose your outside courses as well, I could be wrong though so perhaps you should send admissions an email?

[yobob]

Applied for MSc in Operational Research!! Hoping to get in..

[oliverhoong]

hey guys, Edinburgh was my firm choice, the offer of being 34 ib points at 555 hl... but i screwed up my ib, i got 29... so i just wanna ask how lenient would edinburgh be with that score??? i am also planning to remark 3-4 of my subjects cause i was predicted much higher and i don't really think i screwed up that badly. what are your thoughts?

[SilverDoe21]

(Original post by oliverhoong)
hey guys, Edinburgh was my firm choice, the offer of being 34 ib points at 555 hl... but i screwed up my ib, i got 29... so i just wanna ask how lenient would edinburgh be with that score??? i am also planning to remark 3-4 of my subjects cause i was predicted much higher and i don't really think i screwed up that badly. what are your thoughts?

I'm not sure but I don't think they'd be very lenient unless you missed your offer by just 1 point I'd call them up and try to persuade them to take you, and get in touch with your insurance too.

Best of luck!

[KCoyote]

(Original post by Gales)
Who do you go to see about a course change?

Yeah I would imagine you could talk to your director of studies about this. But if you really want to get it sorted now, phone admissions and ask!

[F1Guille]

Edinburgh asked for 37pts and a 5 in Maths and Physics HL, I got a 5 in both but 36pts, how harsh are they this year? I kinda screwed cause I was predicted 40, do they look at that or not? Thanks guys

Guille

[Oldshoesandsocks]

(Original post by F1Guille)
Edinburgh asked for 37pts and a 5 in Maths and Physics HL, I got a 5 in both but 36pts, how harsh are they this year? I kinda screwed cause I was predicted 40, do they look at that or not? Thanks guys

Guille

I called them two weeks ago about a similar problem because I was panicked I had messed up. They told me they would look at the results carefully and decide either, to except the result or more likely to wait until all results are in (sometime in August) and if places are available they would give them to the people closest to their offers. If they are going to wait you would be informed.

Luckily my results were ok so I emailed them in last Thursday, but I’m still nervous waiting for a confirmation.

[oliverhoong]

I called them two weeks ago about a similar problem because I was panicked I had messed up. They told me they would look at the results carefully and decide either, to except the result or more likely to wait until all results are in (sometime in August) and if places are available they would give them to the people closest to their offers. If they are going to wait you would be informed.

do you think for some courses there would be more places than people who firmed the offer for that course?

[curseofthepirates]

Does anybody know how competitive pure linguistics is? It seems to be faaar less competitive than something like English, but for some reason needs higher grades... (AKA they need 37 and 666 and I have 40 and 775, is there any point in hoping?)

Also, any idea why last year only 11 people accepted their offer (according to the statistics), but in 2007-2009 it was always around 25 people each year? Did something change or am I missunderstanding something?

[Edrer]

Guys, how did you send the documents to the uni? By replying to the latest mail (regarding the application) into euclid?

[saachi]

(Original post by Oldshoesandsocks)
I called them two weeks ago about a similar problem because I was panicked I had messed up. They told me they would look at the results carefully and decide either, to except the result or more likely to wait until all results are in (sometime in August) and if places are available they would give them to the people closest to their offers. If they are going to wait you would be informed.

Luckily my results were ok so I emailed them in last Thursday, but I’m still nervous waiting for a confirmation.

I'm the same position. I made my IB offer, but they haven't confirmed my place yet. Has your Track updated yet?