[aqfrenzy]

(Original post by temptasyon)
I just got a letter from UCL today and have an interview on 12th jan at 2pm too.. its about time i heard from them! Its been driving me crazy waiting....

What are your predicted grades?

[sebbie]

i haven't heard from them, if they don't hurry up it'll be me rejecting them....

[punit4u]

Does anyone know of anyone who didn't get an offer from ucl having gone to the interview, because i've been told that the interview is used to judge you're offer, and whether u can get in if u don't make the offer. This is probably a load of crap, but i'd jus like to know. Yeah i got an offer there on 7th feb too

[punit4u]

not offer, interview...my bad

[jujube]

lol.... well my friend had a really mean interviewer who said at the end, 'so...you're really just quite an average student after all', which made me pretty glad about not applying to ucl, seeing as she's top in the year and the interviewer thinks she's average! she still got an offer though.

if anyone's interested, she was asked to prove Pythagoras' theorem (easy if you've seen it before, doable if not because they start you off) and how a rocket moves through free space (which is physics not maths)

it seems that generally ucl's questions aren't too bad, but my friend who went for engineering was asked some really technical questions about the rate of increase of the height of water in a cylinder, and they gave her differential equations which she had no idea how to do.

[Anarchy Everywhere]

Woot Maths & Stats for Finance Imperial buddy, put it here \o

[Sasuke!]

i think that if you get an interview you will most likely get an offer.

[aqfrenzy]

(Original post by aimee_22)
have you ever tried integrating 1/x^2 with limits of -1,1??? if you do it by hand, and if i remember correctly, the answer is -2. weird thing is, one, its a negative number and two, its not really possible to integrate 1/x^2 as you have 2 asymptotes. so...........anyone cares to solve the problem? i just said it was an invalid integration due to the asymptopes.

yeah surely it is invalid due to asymptopes, dont the asymptopes cause the area to be infinity?

[-Aimee-]

(Original post by mpat89)
yeah surely it is invalid due to asymptopes, dont the asymptopes cause the area to be infinity?

thats what i thought at first. but try it and find out...
weird stuff eh?

[aqfrenzy]

yeah - this problem was on the sheet UCL posted to me along with telling me I had an interview, it shows that you get a negative area when it should be infinity. hmmmmmmm

my UCL interview is in a few hours... wish me luck. will be my firm if everywhere else that hasn't replied rejects me... :P

[jujube]

good luck...

it seems that they take most people who are interviewed anyway so i wouldn't see it as anything to worry about. i sort of wish i applied to ucl instead of sheffield because i'd never go to sheffield in a million years...(or at least not for financial maths). basically i wasted a space on ucas.

[aqfrenzy]

they told me i'd be getting an offer, also during the interview after i did the problem she told me no one had ever answered it correctly as quickly as i had! oooh i was chuffed lol.

[TEJ SINGH]

mpat89

what kind of problems did the interviewers give you???

[aqfrenzy]

the interview was with one person in her office.
i got asked what topic i wanted to do a q in... said calculus then got some integration q, i dont really remember it but there were quite a few steps to getting to that answer.

[Ice Man 3000]

still haven't heard anything from them, should I be worried

[aqfrenzy]

I have no idea. Your grades overall are better then mine so probably no need to be worried, if I can do it anyone can . I'm sure they have more interview & open days coming up.

You've got Warwick anyway... what's the problem?!

[mikeha]

I got an invite today to go to see them on 28 Feb - along with 60 other applicants (for Maths G100).

In my letter they said I would NOT be interviewed, but that I would be able to ask questions of them, and current students etc etc.

They also said that if I didn't go, they wouldn't be able to recommend an offer being made to me............ in other words, I wouldn't get an offer.

[sebbie]

Yeah I got the same invite as you did mike...

I'm not sure whether I can be bothered to go, what's UCL's standard offer if people with Further Maths? If I get AA I'll go to Oxford and if I get AB I'll probably go to Warwick so doesn't seem much point going to look at UCL now I've got two other offers....

[aqfrenzy]

I think it says in their departmental brochure that offers for people with Further Maths are AAA.

[Kolya]

(Original post by mpat89)
I think it says in their departmental brochure that offers for people with Further Maths are AAA.

The offer with FM is AAB.