Relevance of Extended Project?
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Relevance of Extended Project?My college has seriously pushed this as it is an AS-Level equivalent which you can get up to an A* in. Though I am doing something extremely relevant to what I want to study at HE (English Literature - my dissertation is titled 'To what extent do dystopian novels reflect the society in which they were written?') and I was wondering if anyone who has applied for 2012 entry has found that universities take the qualification into account at all?
I'm planning on applying to quite prestigeious unis (Durham, York...) and I was just wondering if they actually care - or if it's just my sixth form
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Re: Relevance of Extended Project?i'm in A2, yes i did the extended project (got an A) and all my offers (AAA at A Level; Law) took it into account and even lowered the AAA down to A*AB if i got an A in the extended project which i have. so i think it's better to have done the project than not.
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Re: Relevance of Extended Project?Oh wow, that was far more than I was expecting - can I ask where you applied to?(Original post by tdkr)
i'm in A2, yes i did the extended project (got an A) and all my offers (AAA at A Level; Law) took it into account and even lowered the AAA down to A*AB if i got an A in the extended project which i have. so i think it's better to have done the project than not. -
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Re: Relevance of Extended Project?sheffield, warwick, nottingham, leicester and east anglia - was rejected by nottingham purely because i messed up my LNAT (an exam for law applicants which nottingham required)(Original post by fliortia)
Oh wow, that was far more than I was expecting - can I ask where you applied to? -
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Re: Relevance of Extended Project?correction; if i got an A in extended project my AAA offer would be lowered down to AAB(Original post by tdkr)
all my offers (AAA at A Level; Law) took it into account and even lowered the AAA down to A*AB if i got an A in the extended project which i have -
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Re: Relevance of Extended Project?I go to Durham and I found doing the EPQ really helped my application - I put it in my personal statement and although I didnt have an interview at Durham, I talked about it loads in my other interviews (Exeter, Bath and Southampton) and they seemed to really like it
