[lauraaimee]

(Original post by SloaneRanger)
Thats a good sign

I hope so! i swear, i'm so excitable lol might not even get an interview yet! but fingers crossed!

[lauraaimee]

(Original post by SloaneRanger)
Put it this way if they weren't interested, they wouldn't have corresponded, they could have easily just sent unsuccessful!

i know i won't get too excited tho lol
i don't think it's cheating lol would you consider Nottingham caves to be an archaeological site? they're extensive, but they're being surveyed at the minute with 3D laser scanners and have been in the news a lot. i've got to write about an archaeological site, artefact, book or news story. i'm hoping it'll count?

[SloaneRanger]

(Original post by lauraaimee)
i know i won't get too excited tho lol
i don't think it's cheating lol would you consider Nottingham caves to be an archaeological site? they're extensive, but they're being surveyed at the minute with 3D laser scanners and have been in the news a lot. i've got to write about an archaeological site, artefact, book or news story. i'm hoping it'll count?

Depends, what there asking, but just be to the point. GL x

[lauraaimee]

(Original post by SloaneRanger)
Depends, what there asking, but just be to the point. GL x

well i've only got 250 so there's no choice but to be to the point lol thank you either way i'll know in a week and a half x

[carnationlilyrose]

(Original post by evening sunrise)
I am not doing an Access course but I am 48. I received 5 offers for Archaeology and I have not studied since 1991, left the 6th form in 1981. I think your prospects are good assuming your doing well on the course and it sounds as if you are.

Best of luck.

Kudos to you.

[Wave]

Been there, done that, got the acceptance letter

[Miss Sweet]

I sent my application mid-november and have heard from everywhere apart from MMU!
Taking the **** now......hate this WAIT!
Worst thing is the fact that all my peers who are applying for the same course have got a offer! and am STILL waiting!

[Beamer]

I have had an offer from MMU :-) I just have to finish my Access course now and make sure my marks are good enough.

Hope all your waiting is over soon it is so frustrating.

[antneb]

(Original post by lauraaimee)
well i've only got 250 so there's no choice but to be to the point lol thank you either way i'll know in a week and a half x

Good luck, i've just accepted my place on a bsc archaeology degree. cant wait.

[evening sunrise]

Excellent news regarding a few archaeologists starting to show. We seem to be in short supply, or very quiet....

There are places available, I have recently "released" places at Sheffield (BSc), Nottingham (BA), Newcastle(BA) and York (BSc).

Go get em............Good luck all.

[yellowpurpleyellow]

(Original post by lauraaimee)
I had an email from UCL today! Questionnaire to fill out then I'll find out if I've got an interview or not :/ have you heard anything?

I think i got the same questionnaire! I'm applying for classical archaeology and classical civilization, and they sent me these questions i have to fill out... I'm well scared!! How are you getting along?

I applied pretty late (Jan 13th) and i haven't heard anything from any unis yet, except that UCL has sent me two questionnaires (i applied to two courses there). I'm starting to get really freaked out, especially as i have the grades for two of the courses i applied to already, and was really hoping for some unconditional offers I dunno if it's the fear and paranoia, but i'm starting to get scared that they're all just going to reject me together at the last second :'( i dunno what i'd do i LOVE those courses!!

[evening sunrise]

(Original post by yellowpurpleyellow)
I think i got the same questionnaire! I'm applying for classical archaeology and classical civilization, and they sent me these questions i have to fill out... I'm well scared!! How are you getting along?

I applied pretty late (Jan 13th) and i haven't heard anything from any unis yet, except that UCL has sent me two questionnaires (i applied to two courses there). I'm starting to get really freaked out, especially as i have the grades for two of the courses i applied to already, and was really hoping for some unconditional offers I dunno if it's the fear and paranoia, but i'm starting to get scared that they're all just going to reject me together at the last second :'( i dunno what i'd do i LOVE those courses!!

It is very early days if you applied on the 13th of Jan. I applied on the 11th of October and the offers arrived between 25th of November and 9th of Jan. This was when UCAS and the Unis were not particularly busy.

If you have the grades then you should get unconditionals. In fact if your not currently studying there are only two options for them. Reject or offer unconditionally. Well OK, they can respond with apply next year having shown some recent evidence of study making a kind of conditional offer for 2013 entry. I have seen a few folks on YouGo who received that type of response, but we certainly did not and I have not read any such responses on TSR.

Good luck

[Sabz.94]

(Original post by lauraaimee)
I had an email from UCL today! Questionnaire to fill out then I'll find out if I've got an interview or not :/ have you heard anything?

Wickedd!
What course did u apply for? I've already submitted in the 1000 word entrance essay for the Anthropology course but since then NOTHING I'm dying inside. What kind of questionnaire have they sent by the way?

[LewisH]

(Original post by lauraaimee)
well i've only got 250 so there's no choice but to be to the point lol thank you either way i'll know in a week and a half x

From my own experience make sure you've an interest in whatever subject you write about because you'll be asked questions about it. You'd be better off being able to show a passion than a vast knowledge of your subject; so saying, it will probably make you more confident if you are fend off questions as they come.

Good luck

[evening sunrise]

Is there any archeology in the Nottingham caves. Any cave floor surface / entrance surveys conducted ?

Or are they of geological interest only ?

Based upon my interviews, even though not at UCL, I would advise the following for your essay.

a) If you choose a site ensure it has archeology or field survey results that give a strong indication that archeology is likely to be present.

b) Whether a site or artifact, e.g. the roman helmet found in Leicestershire, ensure you cover its context. In this case the helmet (of high quality) it was found in an British Iron age burial. Likewise the Neolithic temple complex on Orkney and the volume of bovine bones indicating a close down feast for the site of 10,000 people. Which I personally think is unlikely to be accurate by at least one order of magnitude.

c) What possible interpretations can be made based upon the evidence and context or what questions arise to be answered.

Then be prepared to have what you are written probed at interview. The probing will be friendly and not adversarial but probed you will be and probing can be enjoyable, at least I found it so.

Do not worry whether you have "got it right" unless you have done the equivalent of concluding a Rat is a primate, or that the bronze age preceded the neolithic, they are interested in whether you can think, and how far you have looked into the subject, which reveals your passion and commitment.

I will confess that I mis-read the UCAS application and initially drafted a 4000 word personal statement (Doh!), which I then discovered needed cataclysmic abridging to 4000 characters.

But having written the 4000 words initially I went armed to my interviews with the following up my sleeve or rather in my head.

My response when asked which aspects I was particularly interested were.

a) The relationship between the development of human society and concentration of population (gene pool) and the relationship of that with agriculture. Was agriculture a response or was it a catalyst of such a concentration. There is also an analogy with the Internet in terms of a step change in the levels of communication between individuals and therefore the propagation of ideas.

b) The propagation of stone tool technologies and in particular the replacement of one by another and what that might indicate in regard to the state of the human or hominid mind at the time. Did replacement occur through mimicry or evaluation of relative merit and envisaging an advantage in future use, or fashion, e.g. associated esteem with an approach in the absence of material advantage. I did also point out in one interview that there was probably more chance of getting a polaroid of a higgs-boson than nailing this beyond all doubt.

c) The fact that I am uncomfortable with the multi out of Africa event model, due to it being counter intuitive to the way one would expect evolution to manifest its self. But I remain open to persuasion.

d) The population of and dispersal into the Americas by homo sapien sapien.

e) Lindow man and techniques used. (I read again my monograph of Lindow man which I had acquired in the early 90s.)

Across the two interviews the discussion went around a) to c), d) was never pursued, and e) discussed very briefly once.

Do not try an learn something completely new, stick to what you have been interested in thus far and hence have read about etc. I stated upfront that I know diddly squat about the Romans, (I was being interviewed by the Prof for Roman Archeology) beyond what is in the play Julius Caesar, and that they were not a particular interest for me, although no doubt they are interesting. I also stated that I had only just started reading some of my books on the Greeks, even though they have been on my book shelf since the late 80s. Therefore questions in these areas did not arise, Phew!

Good luck with the essay and interview.