Five Rejections

Update: rejected by Derby, applied to De Montfort as my second extra choice, I hope I'm not alone with all this bad luck


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I'm sorry you have had this experience. It must be very difficult to remain positive. What you really should do is to obtain feedback from the places which have rejected you so you can see what it is that is holding you back. It could be something like a missing qualification or other oversight, or there may be some aspect of your application which needs working on maybe for next year. Don't remain in the dark. Good luck.

Did you call Derby and de Montfort to see if they had spaces for your course before you sent it off


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Some important points to think about :

Drama is an incredibly competitive course because they are usually few places compared to say, English. This means you have less chance of getting an offer, regardless of how 'good' you think you are.

What quals do you have that they didnt fancy much? Could you do something else (A levels?) in a gap-year?

Could you apply through Extra for a different subject? Its likely that anywhere offering Drama will now be 'full' and not making any more offers.

Try and work out what was wrong with your application - was it really just the qualifications? Or does your PS need some work - did it for instance talk about 'acting' rather than 'studying drama as an academic subject'? This is an important difference as far as Unis are concerned.

Don't do a degree just for the sake of doing a degree, you'll end up regretting it.

If you dont have the grades then it IS worth retaking if you want this badly enough.

I did yeah, De Montfort have been in touch and said I'll take 10 working days to get back to me with a decision


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First of all, from comments like 'it'll give me something to do' it sounds like you dont understand what a University course actually is, or that it is academic - that it involves a great deal of hard 'book' study. This is why all Universities set minimum requirement for entry, why they want high predicted grades, and why they prefer A levels - because they know that unless you can achieve this you will struggle with the course. A degree is not 'BTEC but at a bigger college', it a totally different qualification at a much higher intellectual level.

Secondly, if you arent actually prepared to take another year to do the required qualifications (A Levels) to give yourself the best shot at getting place then clearly you are just playing at this and have no real academic ambition at all. Unless you are prepared to put in the hard graft now you wont get a place - no matter how hard you stamp foot or think 'how unfair' it is.

Your comments above clearly suggest that you didnt do enough research before applying this year - ie. if Unis state specific grades in both GCSE and Level 3 quals (A Levels, BTEC) that is what they want, not just total points. It may annoy you that your BTEC isnt seen as entirely suitable for Uni entrance for this course and they want other quals as well - tough, they are calling the shots and you will not change their mind by complaining.

Bottom line is that if you do actually want to go to Uni to study then you will have to get other/more relevant quals and with higher predicted grades than you have at present. That will involve another year at college at least. And if you havnt got enough patience or ambition to do this, then I suggest you think of something else other than going to Uni.