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Original post by fnkyclaud
im pretty sure its the 29th!!! haha very!! but have you been sent any extra information about either of the days? I havent bt i swear in an email they said they would.....
No I havent though hopefully they'll send them soon as I have no info for queen Mary's
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Original post by lk231
Does anyone know if interviews are individual or group? Just curious.
They're individual but in a big room where other people are being interviewed
Good luck!Original post by PromiseKim
They're individual but in a big room where other people are being interviewed Good luck!
Good luck!Do you find out your Interviewer before the interview? Is it just one member of staff interviewing us?
Original post by KatjaHerd
Do you find out your Interviewer before the interview? Is it just one member of staff interviewing us?
I'm not too sure if you find out before hand. I know that the people I went with on my interview day, did not. But they won't give you a random member of staff. And they'll be well informed about you. And yes, it is just one member of staff
you'll be fine Original post by PromiseKim
I'm not too sure if you find out before hand. I know that the people I went with on my interview day, did not. But they won't give you a random member of staff. And they'll be well informed about you. And yes, it is just one member of staff you'll be fine
you'll be fine Thank you!
Got an offer for Japanese studies!
Got 2 more offers, however I'm not sure which one I should firm - Leeds or Manchester, since Leeds is higher in language study ranking than Manchester.
But Manchester seems to be very good too, omg I don't know what to do:|
Got 2 more offers, however I'm not sure which one I should firm - Leeds or Manchester, since Leeds is higher in language study ranking than Manchester.
But Manchester seems to be very good too, omg I don't know what to do:|
Original post by instrumentality
Got an offer for Japanese studies!
Got 2 more offers, however I'm not sure which one I should firm - Leeds or Manchester, since Leeds is higher in language study ranking than Manchester.
But Manchester seems to be very good too, omg I don't know what to do:|
Got 2 more offers, however I'm not sure which one I should firm - Leeds or Manchester, since Leeds is higher in language study ranking than Manchester.
But Manchester seems to be very good too, omg I don't know what to do:|
Hey there congrats on your offers! I have the same problem choosing between manchester and leeds. I have an offer for leeds for german and linguistics and an interview for manchester. I like them both equally, so if I get the same offer from both I'm stuffed :/
Original post by stebsie
Hey there congrats on your offers! I have the same problem choosing between manchester and leeds. I have an offer for leeds for german and linguistics and an interview for manchester. I like them both equally, so if I get the same offer from both I'm stuffed :/
Congratulations!
Well, I'm still waiting for 2 offers, however I can't help but think about these two.
I count ourselves as lucky for this though!
But an interview? They have said nothing about this to me, well I'm EU applicant, I don't know if it decides anything.
Yes, I'm have the same thing in my mind right now, it sure will cost some sleepless nights to decide.
Original post by instrumentality
Congratulations!
Well, I'm still waiting for 2 offers, however I can't help but think about these two.
I count ourselves as lucky for this though!
But an interview? They have said nothing about this to me, well I'm EU applicant, I don't know if it decides anything.
Yes, I'm have the same thing in my mind right now, it sure will cost some sleepless nights to decide.
Well, I'm still waiting for 2 offers, however I can't help but think about these two.
I count ourselves as lucky for this though!
But an interview? They have said nothing about this to me, well I'm EU applicant, I don't know if it decides anything.
Yes, I'm have the same thing in my mind right now, it sure will cost some sleepless nights to decide.
Thank you
and they'll come they both took a month or so to reply to me. It may be that you wont have an interview if you are an EU applicant, but they'll email you about it if they want an interview so dont panic! Yeah we are lucky to be able to choose between them ,they're both great unis which makes it so hard haha Original post by Bambirina
Hey guys I'm a first year doing Business & Management and Japanese at UoM so feel free to ask me any question.
I know quite a few people studying other languages so I might be able to answer questions about Italian, Arabic, etc if needed.
Manchester is absolutely amazing by the way, both as a uni and as a city
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I'm a first year doing Business & Management and Japanese at UoM so feel free to ask me any question.I know quite a few people studying other languages so I might be able to answer questions about Italian, Arabic, etc if needed.
Manchester is absolutely amazing by the way, both as a uni and as a city
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Hi Bambirina! I have an offer of Manchester to study the same course as you but I am doubting between this one and Cardiff. I wish you could tell me everything you can to make my decision, or as you are in your first year, just the answers of that questions that you surely had before making your choice and now are totally clear. Thanks a lot.
Hey Katrina I'm there on 26th Feb for an interview for Russian Studies. How prepared do you feel/have you heard what to expect and how the interview is?
Original post by ClaraDeLuna
Hi Bambirina! I have an offer of Manchester to study the same course as you but I am doubting between this one and Cardiff. I wish you could tell me everything you can to make my decision, or as you are in your first year, just the answers of that questions that you surely had before making your choice and now are totally clear. Thanks a lot.
Hi, sorry for the late reply, I've been quite busy with uni.
I'd be glad to answer your questions, feel free to PM me
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Original post by weevilface
Hey Katrina I'm there on 26th Feb for an interview for Russian Studies. How prepared do you feel/have you heard what to expect and how the interview is?
I'm pretty prepared - been practising loads of questions, etc
all I've heard is that they ask all the general questions (e.g "why Manchester"), they refer to your personal statement quite a bit, and that, in the part of the interview where they ask questions in the foreign language, it's usually based on something you've already discussed
Urg I went to a Manchester open today it was far away at great expense to me, despite the fact they're asking a lot from me I didn't get to see any of their actual learning facilities or anything I would actually care about when being made to pick which university I would want to go to.
I honestly don't care about how much research they did that won't affect my studies in the least.
Frankly I didn't need to travel 200 miles to get the info I did from a seminar I could of just as easily from a 20 minute Youtube video.
I don't think I want to go here anymore.
I'm hopeful the Leeds open day is different but I will call them tomorrow.
I honestly don't care about how much research they did that won't affect my studies in the least.
Frankly I didn't need to travel 200 miles to get the info I did from a seminar I could of just as easily from a 20 minute Youtube video.
I don't think I want to go here anymore.
I'm hopeful the Leeds open day is different but I will call them tomorrow.
Original post by Clause
Urg I went to a Manchester open today it was far away at great expense to me, despite the fact they're asking a lot from me I didn't get to see any of their actual learning facilities or anything I would actually care about when being made to pick which university I would want to go to.
I honestly don't care about how much research they did that won't affect my studies in the least.
Frankly I didn't need to travel 200 miles to get the info I did from a seminar I could of just as easily from a 20 minute Youtube video.
I don't think I want to go here anymore.
I'm hopeful the Leeds open day is different but I will call them tomorrow.
I honestly don't care about how much research they did that won't affect my studies in the least.
Frankly I didn't need to travel 200 miles to get the info I did from a seminar I could of just as easily from a 20 minute Youtube video.
I don't think I want to go here anymore.
I'm hopeful the Leeds open day is different but I will call them tomorrow.
I've never been to a Manchester open day so I don't know what it's like but I'm a first year student at UoM and I really like it here.
If you want to know anything about the languages department, let me know and I'd be glad to help.
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Original post by Bambirina
I've never been to a Manchester open day so I don't know what it's like but I'm a first year student at UoM and I really like it here.
If you want to know anything about the languages department, let me know and I'd be glad to help.
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If you want to know anything about the languages department, let me know and I'd be glad to help.
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Well go through what you're getting for your £9000 a year investment.
Go through that you like about your course and specifically about things you think are only available at Manchester Uni.
Also what are your fellow classmates like.
Original post by Clause
Well go through what you're getting for your £9000 a year investment.
Go through that you like about your course and specifically about things you think are only available at Manchester Uni.
Also what are your fellow classmates like.
Go through that you like about your course and specifically about things you think are only available at Manchester Uni.
Also what are your fellow classmates like.
I know that I offered to help but saying 'please' would have been appreciated..
Anyway, I don't have time to write a novel but I'm getting a great education, my teachers are experts in their fields and they're extremely helpful (I just got a summer internship in Japan thanks to my Japanese teachers and the uni careers service). I'm learning a lot and I know that my degree will get me a great job. I like the fact that I'm getting a good education while having fun (there are so many great clubs and societies and the nightlife is amazing).
I like my course because I'm passionate about it and my teachers make it interesting. It's intense but it's worth it. There are lots of resources available like the language centre where you can meet up with language partners and borrow DVDs in foreign languages. The partner universities abroad are amazing. Manchester is a great city to live in, there's absolutely everything here.
I've got 2 "sets" of classmates as I'm doing joint honours. The ones in Japanese are pretty quiet but very nice, everybody gets along. The business school is huge so I know very few people there but the atmosphere is nice. Manchester is a very big uni so there are all kinds of people.
Sorry I can't go too much into details as I don't have that much time. Hope that helped though.
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Third year languages student here, I thought I'd give some input too. I don't pay £9000, 'only' 3000 but choosing Manchester was the best decision I have ever made, I started off firming UEA and I'm SO GLAD I changed it a few days later. I cannot imagine doing my degree anywhere else.
I'm in the French department and they're fabulous, the admin is speedy with responses and I've never been delayed getting coursework grades back. If there is any ever problems or absences we are made aware of them well in advance. We get a good range of modules and the department is close knit so you'll know all your professors and their specialisms.(Even if they don't know you... but this is common in every university no matter what size.)
We have a great Languages lab and library only for languages students, in popular languages like French and spanish there are around 100-150 students in my year, it's a great size because it means you meet all kinda of people whilst not being so big you don't know anyone. I know people on Economics and their course is something like 300 students, my housemate could only name about 5 other people on his course, where as I could easily name a good percentage of mine.
The university is in a fabulous place, admittedly if you went for somewhere like Leeds it wouldn't be too different, but you wouldn't get such a multicultural experience which is so important for languages students if you went to a campus university in the middle of nowhere.
The university has amazing links with other universities abroad all around the world.In my department we could go to France, Quebec,Belgium and even out to islands like Reunion. I know someone doing their year abroad in Togo.
The residence abroad are great and respond to emails quickly and can really help you get your internships and where you want ot be on your year abroad too.
£9000 is a lot of money so obviously you want to choose carefully, but I don't think it would be wasted at Manchester, even if you don't feel like you've seen it all at the end of your degree. It really is all worth it in the end. I'm on my year abroad right now in France and university education costs next to nothing over here and you can really tell and I'm at the Sorbonne which is supposedly one of France's best schools. For example,even in obscure courses there are over 100 students, my seminars never have less than 50 students in and even in core grammar classes and translation classes for learning foreign languages numbers are really high (there are 55 people in my translation class here in Paris,which is crazy as to learn a language you need to be in small groups to get the proper help needed) Despite Manchester's size, that never happened in my first and second years, there were 15-20 max in a seminar and maybe 10 in a grammar class. Honestly it's been a real eye opener for me (thankfully year abroad costs nothing in tuition fees!).
At the end of the day, it's your choice as to where you decide to go and I don't want you to feel pressured in to choosing Manchester, but it does have some good points - it's a shame you felt like you weren't shown these at your open day.
I'm in the French department and they're fabulous, the admin is speedy with responses and I've never been delayed getting coursework grades back. If there is any ever problems or absences we are made aware of them well in advance. We get a good range of modules and the department is close knit so you'll know all your professors and their specialisms.(Even if they don't know you... but this is common in every university no matter what size.)
We have a great Languages lab and library only for languages students, in popular languages like French and spanish there are around 100-150 students in my year, it's a great size because it means you meet all kinda of people whilst not being so big you don't know anyone. I know people on Economics and their course is something like 300 students, my housemate could only name about 5 other people on his course, where as I could easily name a good percentage of mine.
The university is in a fabulous place, admittedly if you went for somewhere like Leeds it wouldn't be too different, but you wouldn't get such a multicultural experience which is so important for languages students if you went to a campus university in the middle of nowhere.
The university has amazing links with other universities abroad all around the world.In my department we could go to France, Quebec,Belgium and even out to islands like Reunion. I know someone doing their year abroad in Togo.
The residence abroad are great and respond to emails quickly and can really help you get your internships and where you want ot be on your year abroad too.
£9000 is a lot of money so obviously you want to choose carefully, but I don't think it would be wasted at Manchester, even if you don't feel like you've seen it all at the end of your degree. It really is all worth it in the end. I'm on my year abroad right now in France and university education costs next to nothing over here and you can really tell and I'm at the Sorbonne which is supposedly one of France's best schools. For example,even in obscure courses there are over 100 students, my seminars never have less than 50 students in and even in core grammar classes and translation classes for learning foreign languages numbers are really high (there are 55 people in my translation class here in Paris,which is crazy as to learn a language you need to be in small groups to get the proper help needed) Despite Manchester's size, that never happened in my first and second years, there were 15-20 max in a seminar and maybe 10 in a grammar class. Honestly it's been a real eye opener for me (thankfully year abroad costs nothing in tuition fees!).
At the end of the day, it's your choice as to where you decide to go and I don't want you to feel pressured in to choosing Manchester, but it does have some good points - it's a shame you felt like you weren't shown these at your open day.
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