Physics Applicants 2016 - University of Edinburgh

I have seen all of you in the UoE applicants forum, lets get this thread going!!!

Thanks for the tag


I have an offer for 2nd year entry into chemical physics. Likely to make Edinburgh my insurance

Awesome, what is your 2nd year offer, if you don't mind me asking? And where are you thinking of firming?

Hey congrats for your offer
It's A*AA in any of maths physics chemistry
I am firming Cambridge

Are you from Scotland as you were talking about location?
If I understood correctly you can take a module from outside physics department initially right? What do you plan to do?

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Woah good job with that Cambridge offer! That's awesome
And that's a good offer. I have a friend who got A*AA for first year entry when typical is ABB/AAB lol

Nope, I'm from England. I mean a good location as in it looks like such a wonderful city compared to my other offers - I don't really like london's atmosphere, and when I visited manchester it looked super rough in many areas.

Yeah I am a tad unclear about that, but it seems that you just need to have the space in your timetable I've been hoping that I'll get the chance to attend a computer science, costuming or animation module if possible, but we will see What are you thinking of?

Thanks haha
Wow really? Thank God my offer is a sensible standard offer, or else I'd have to insure somewhere else

Yeah I visited Edinburgh once and it is a beautiful place. I also have an offer from a London uni but Im not too keen on the idea of living in London either.
Another insurance option for me is Durham but I've not visited there... But I live abroad so I don't really want to take days off school and spend money on travelling for an insurance choice you know!

Costuming or animation, thats an uncommon interest for a physicist
Chemical physicists don't get the option actually, because it is compulsory for us to take chemistry, physics and maths. But if I were to choose something outside of science, I'd do French or possibly Philosophy

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Haha ikr I don't think he is too pleased with it xD

Edinburgh just seems to be a nicer place in general - much less rough, and the castle is stunning! Durham has a great rep, but Edinburgh is where the cool kids go I live abroad too, and I totally get what you mean! It cost me a few hundred £ just to get to manchester for an interview I could only afford one so I had to forfeit my york interview haha Did you get online interviews?

Yeah, maybe a tad but I couldn't choose between studying physics or film so idk

Darn that sucks! Well... I guess it is alright if you like chemistry Which A levels/as are you doing?

I have an unconditional for bsc Physics 😊

Durham has a great rep but it's not very internationally known. I think Edinburgh is ahead on international reputation
Nah I didn't get online interviews. I had to physically go to my Imperial and Cambridge interviews But to be honest I am absolutely rubbish at talking on phone so really glad I went in person

Ah Scottish uni is really good for you then, you get to do something else completely different!

I'm doing maths physics chemistry and further maths and EPQ. Yourself? Probably similar?

It's werid how much rankings differ from national to international, but that does sound right That's good then, and you get to check out the uni while you are there!

Oh nice, what's EPQ? I'm doing maths, further maths, physics and biology - I dropped economics after AS Like 90% of physics applicants are doing maths, fm and phys lol

If I were a UK citizen I'd have not thought about my insurance much and chosen Durham probably, but being an international and having the two opposing data made me look into the courses more etc so that's good

EPQ stands for extended project qualification, in which you write a dissertation (or carry out investigation/make an artefact etc ) on a topic you want to explore in depth. It is a very good learning process and I've enjoyed some parts of it but other parts are a massive pain in the arsenic and it's so time consuming

Oh biology! I'd considered taking it instead of FM but I don't like ecology stuff so decided against it
Yeah especially on TSR so many do FM lol
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Fair enough

Ahh right, that sounds like a fair bit of work - idt we get many subjects like that here(aside from dt/art), probably because we are all lazy students

That was a smart move on your part, I hate bio Fm is much more fun Anyways, maybe I'll see you at Edinburgh, although I hope that's not the case since cambridge sounds rather shiny xD

Yeah it gives half the UCAS points of an A level but it is a lot of work lol. And it's an independent research on a topic your teachers aren't necessarily an expert of so you don't get much guidance EPQ drop rate is usually really high, and only a few take it haha

Yeah I don't regret my choice Haha Id like to see you but hopefully not in Edinburgh this September

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Does it count towards any of your offers? That sounds a lot tougher than A levels! Most teachers don't seem to be experts anyway lol I don't even do it but I already want to drop it haha

That's probably a good thing I hope everything goes smoothly