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  1. RoryOShea's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by silver0)
    Do you guys know if the accommodation is first come first served basis? I want to apply soon, but QUB is my insurance choice so I don't know if I can apply?
    You can still apply, and if you don't get in to your firm and have applied then i think you are still guaranteed accommodation... it just might not be in your first choice place
  2. Cheshire_Ink's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Anyone form engaland having trouble with student finance..? Queens isn't showing up on my 'course finder' D: i've tried contacting queens/student loans but my calls keep getting put on hold Help please!
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by Cheshire_Ink)
    Anyone form engaland having trouble with student finance..? Queens isn't showing up on my 'course finder' D: i've tried contacting queens/student loans but my calls keep getting put on hold Help please!
    Hey, from england it came up when i applied :confused: just try typing it in then a drop down box should appear then select it from there. For the course it depends if its a BA/BSC etc., how long it is, 3/4 years etc. and if you're doing a placement year or not.

    Sorry if that doesn't help, the whole thing's a right pain in the arse!
  4. silver0's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by Cheshire_Ink)
    Anyone form engaland having trouble with student finance..? Queens isn't showing up on my 'course finder' D: i've tried contacting queens/student loans but my calls keep getting put on hold Help please!
    Queens is my insurance but when I did my application I tried putting it in and it wasn't there which was really confussing, but I put my firm choice and it found it.. I don't know if it's because it's in NI, or you have to put the name or code of it differently.. Is there a way you can enter the name manually?
  5. PNF :)'s Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Got an unconditional offer for Criminology and my place is confirmed x
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by louiseforster)
    Hi everyone! I received an offer for Queens for English On my UCAS Track cover letter it says the requirements are BBB, yet when I visited the March open day they said it was ABB? Any ideas? Little confused:


    This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App
    I've got an offer for English too! Yay hopefully will be seeing you in September and if you got a B or higher at AS in the subject you dropped it's BBB, if you didn't then it's ABB
  7. Who_Is_It?'s Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Hey guys, I'm starting queens this September, gonna be doing Theoretical Physics Can't wait to start!!

    Anyone else gonna be doing physics and/or maths??
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by silver0)
    Do you guys know if the accommodation is first come first served basis? I want to apply soon, but QUB is my insurance choice so I don't know if I can apply?
    First years are guaranteed a place in Elms
  9. zipitred's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Hey! Hopefully starting this September doing Biomedical Sciences, although my offer is ABB/ABC with the A in Biology or Chemistry, and I'm seriously doubting I could get it!
    Anyone know if Queen's are at all flexible with the grades?

    Also, is anyone else going from Wales? I feel like the only one haha!
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by zipitred)
    Hey! Hopefully starting this September doing Biomedical Sciences, although my offer is ABB/ABC with the A in Biology or Chemistry, and I'm seriously doubting I could get it!
    Anyone know if Queen's are at all flexible with the grades?

    Also, is anyone else going from Wales? I feel like the only one haha!
    God, I hope they're flexible.. I'm doubting my chem grade too!
  11. zipitred's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by spatterson9)
    God, I hope they're flexible.. I'm doubting my chem grade too!
    I just find Chemistry exams so difficult! I understand all the work, but it comes to the exams and I'm hopeless

    I think I could've gotten the A in Biology, but I made a massive mistake in my last exam and basically kissed goodbye to an A in that. I hope they'll be a little flexible with grades
  12. GarySpurs's Avatar
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    I don't think Queens are that flexible to be honest, espically for high demand courses such as the Science ones.
  13. HideFromTheGuns's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Good luck to everyone waiting on results
    Mine should be posted next Monday, currently going through a range of stressful emotions.

    Hope you all get what you are looking
  14. Who_Is_It?'s Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by HideFromTheGuns)
    Good luck to everyone waiting on results
    Mine should be posted next Monday, currently going through a range of stressful emotions.

    Hope you all get what you are looking
    Thank you

    Good luck on your results too!! Hope you meet your offer and get into Queen's.
  15. NGlynn94's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Anyone going to Queens from England and knows how they are getting to Belfast ? Flying will be rather expensive for getting stuff over...
  16. EliseK's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    Hi! My name's Elise. I'm heading to Queen's from America in September for the Comparative Ethnic Conflict MA program. I haven't figured out where I'll be living yet, eeek. Is anyone else in the CEC program? Or an international student?

    See you all around!
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by EliseK)
    Hi! My name's Elise. I'm heading to Queen's from America in September for the Comparative Ethnic Conflict MA program. I haven't figured out where I'll be living yet, eeek. Is anyone else in the CEC program? Or an international student?

    See you all around!
    Hi Elise, I'm Timothy, also from the US. I'm doing to the MA in Violence, Terrorism & Security. Not the same program, but the same school (PISP) at least.
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by NGlynn94)
    Anyone going to Queens from England and knows how they are getting to Belfast ? Flying will be rather expensive for getting stuff over...
    I'm persuading my friends to come on a road trip :cheers: i've got to get from outside london all the way over.. thats if I get the grades
  19. silver0's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by NGlynn94)
    Anyone going to Queens from England and knows how they are getting to Belfast ? Flying will be rather expensive for getting stuff over...
    I might be coming from Cornwall, so most likely to fly there, which is a bit annoying because i wont be able to take much stuff, but then again its a fast way to get there
  20. NGlynn94's Avatar
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    Re: Queen's University, Belfast 2012 Applicants.
    (Original post by silver0)
    I might be coming from Cornwall, so most likely to fly there, which is a bit annoying because i wont be able to take much stuff, but then again its a fast way to get there
    Think I may just go on thee ferry I won't be able to decide what to leave at home! haha
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