This discussion is now closed.

Check out other Related discussions

A weird set of A-levels...but what will my unis say?! comments and opinions ppl! lol

i for one must admit that at times when iv asked for advice on this forum, some people are really harsh and they just let you down, and blows your confidence. maybe i am to blame for this, but what can you do. we fight on and live on. that is why i dont want to disclose much about my uni applications because most people will have opinions and not what i want to hear!

:biggrin:

Reply 41

madhead123

OP

thansk charlie....i chekced out sheffield site and yeh i wil consider it! cheers :biggrin:

....u at uni already? where u go?

Reply 42

madhead123

OP

Umarf786 exactly! lol but im a guy who likes the to hear things st8...so....u taking general at A2...cuz it may be wroth it as sheffield and lecietser and some other good nuis asccept it....sdo combined wuith ya A2's it may help?

Reply 43

madhead123

OP

oph and and in answer to charlies question "how can i predicted an A when iv never done it before"....im doing both AS and A2...2 days a week at colll....and im doing k and cuz i got AAB ma teacher is predicting an A....its hard when u work 4 days a week as well belive me! lol

Reply 44

charlie.....

nope i am on a gap year... working full time at the mo and cant stand it! off to thailand soon tho :biggrin:

do u have to do the lnat for any universities your applying to? if so u could do well on that + that mite help your application

Reply 45

umarf786

2

beazzz

Umarf786 exactly! lol but im a guy who likes the to hear things st8...so....u taking general at A2...cuz it may be wroth it as sheffield and lecietser and some other good nuis asccept it....sdo combined wuith ya A2's it may help?

No, cnt be bothered. iv got key skills done, which is enough. general is a waste of time!

Reply 46

madhead123

OP

yeh kings college and UCL....thought id go wild on a few lol...u never no...some1 i new got into warrick with a BTEC national...ill probs get in leciester and Queen mary so i'll just go to one of them....lol i tried an LNAT test and there hard!...but yeh i may guess them all right :P....what ya working as....i worked 4 days a week and its ****e too but i got a year off it! lucky git going tailand!! where did u get into eventually sos?

Reply 47

Lewisy-boy

11

You've mentioned it about 100 times, wtf is this BTEC thing.

Reply 48

madhead123

OP

3 times...because ne1 seems to have reacted to it....its basically one of those 'non-respected' courses...similar to a GNVQ....and definately not as resepcted as alevels...teachers in my school consider them a joke...i was jhust trying to make the point that the potential to study law may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, and there is flexible in the assessment of individual applicants.

Reply 49

Lewisy-boy

11

yea but I am assuming it was not the only qualification held by the applicant, I mean if you have it alongside 3 a-levels then it;'s fine as a supplement so what's your point?

Reply 50

madhead123

OP

no,no The BTEC National Diploma is:

18-unit National Diploma extends and deepens the specialist focus of the 12-unit Certificate. It is broadly equivalent to three GCE A levels/ AVCEs and is triple-graded, for example, PPP, PPM.

it is equivalnt to three alevles....BTEC's are less resepcted than alevels like film trust me...and ppl have been accepted to warwick with them....so my point it...the whole syastem is a bit random really...as ppl such as yaself have got top alevels and dnt get in but ppl with "less respected" qualifications have....im just saying ppl that dnt do "conventional" subjects, often dnt get in top unis, but sometimes they do...

Reply 51

Lewisy-boy

11

Yeah what you say is true but to use a phrase I hate it's sort of the "exception that proves the rule", the uni might be doing it to show that they aren't just biased against such a qualification. Also, for every one person who gets in with things like that I bet there are about 1000 who didn't so you shouldn't hang your hopes on it if you catch my drift.

Reply 52

Purple

15

What are you two arguing about now?

Reply 53

madhead123

OP

lol nothing much....not arguing, just discussing....plus he seems to be doing a degree in law at uni and would therefore destroy me lol....i no mate i was just saying that there are sometimes excepttions....i no i wnt get into the "top" unis but its worth a shot...espcially as i nearly had a whole year off college...and am doing an extra alevel...so u'no...cant blame a guy for trying...:P

i'll realistically get into leicetser and Queen Mary....hopefully....

Reply 54

Dreama

13

beazzz

where u go uni may i ask?

King's College London.

Once again, best of luck.

Reply 55

kthxbai

At the end of the day chances are a uni would chose someone with more respected subjects over someone who has not. They consider some subjects too easy or not academic enough. Doing a A-Lvl in one year is easier than doing it with the other A-Lvls. Film Studies is not considered that respectable according to some and I could see people frowning upon the Law A-Lvl as it is taken after all the other A-Lvls.

UCL, KCL, Warwick etc I could not see you getting into due to the two above mentioned problems. You might be able to but I would only put down say one as hoping you get offers from three ish is very risky.

When I applied I chose three AAB-AAA unis, two ABB unis and one BBB uni and was realistic in which ones I applied to. I got offers from all of them.

You might want to consider some ABB-BBB unis incase the "better" ones dont make offers.

Maybe something like this: -

Leicester - AAB
Kent - ABB
Hull - BBB
QMU - AAB-ABB
KCL - AABb
Maybe a AAA uni in this slot

Maybe ring the unis and ask the admissions people for the law department what they think of the subjects and how you are doing one in a gap year. Some may say they are fine with it others may frown upon them.

Also make sure your personal statement is very good.

Good luck applying btw