SOAS applicants 2015 thread

CONGRATS TO YOU!! I am a mature student, so I guess they are leaving me until last! Would you be able to give me any tips, seeing as you got offered a place! And did they tell you straight away or did you have to wait for communication from them? Sorry 21 questions....
I genuinely have my heart set on this course, so hopefully we will be study buddies

Thanks! Tips? None really, unless you're talking about the interview. I can help with that! Make sure you check where the interview is before you go to it, or else you'll stress about what room it's in (like I did, though it turned out I guessed right!). They told me in the interview that I had an offer, though it hasn't come through track and I don't think I've had an email from them yet.

You'll be fine as long as you've got the grades and your personal statement shows you have at least some interest. I'm sure you'll be fine though!

That sounds good though I'm guessing you're spanish?

Thanks! Tips? None really, unless you're talking about the interview. I can help with that! Make sure you check where the interview is before you go to it, or else you'll stress about what room it's in (like I did, though it turned out I guessed right!). They told me in the interview that I had an offer, though it hasn't come through track and I don't think I've had an email from them yet.

You'll be fine as long as you've got the grades and your personal statement shows you have at least some interest. I'm sure you'll be fine though!

That sounds good though I'm guessing you're spanish?

They gave me an offer, so alright, I guess?

The interviewer was late by 5 minutes and it was basically a conversation about my course and what I thought of SOAS. The interviewer, the principal lecturer in Chinese, was so so so lovely.



Why would that be the case?

SO YEAH, I GOT AN OFFER FOR CHINESE STUDIES!

AAB. I'm so chuffed, I never imagined I'd get five :')

SOAS Insurance choice for Law!

Anyone out there who got a Law offer recently(in the past week or so) ? It's been months :/

I am still waiting.....

I applied in Jan

Same here, this is getting excruciatingly painful!

When did you get your offer? I am still waiting and I applied in Jan

The only thing that doesn't make me too worried is the fact that Law was in clearing last two years.....

Not sure how good that is but does that mean the course isn't over subscribed as the likes of Kings were not in clearing for Law?

Hey!

Got my offer on the 26th March 2015 and I applied in December! :-/
I called up a week before the SOAS insight day because I had a conflicting Open Day that day and I asked whether I could do a different day but I also spoke about my offer and the lady apologised for the delay and said that my application would be looked into and I got an offer about 3 weeks later!
If you want, there is no harm in ringing them up and just asking what the status of your application is.

Hope I helped!

I looked at the Law courses last year in Clearing and loads of them were "Law with...". SOAS have a lot of combinations so that might be why it was in clearing?

And I was speaking to the Undergraduate Advisor a week ago and she was telling me that SOAS is quite unique as it specialises in African and Asian legal systems and can't really be compared to other Uni's because SOAS is very unique from them through its specialism.

Hey!

Got my offer on the 26th March 2015 and I applied in December! :-/
I called up a week before the SOAS insight day because I had a conflicting Open Day that day and I asked whether I could do a different day but I also spoke about my offer and the lady apologised for the delay and said that my application would be looked into and I got an offer about 3 weeks later!
If you want, there is no harm in ringing them up and just asking what the status of your application is.

Hope I helped!

SOAS LLB Law was in clearing for some time...

just spoke to my friend who went through clearing last year but ended up going to Queen Mary and he said he phoned four days after results day and there were still places averrable at SOAS if you had A B B grades.....

Obviously that was last year so every year is different...this year may be different but I thought it just means that if we don't get an offer...clearing may be an option....