History Degree - Panic!

Thornton's quite nice, leave it out. You're taking this even more off topic than I was!

Also, I know someone who impressed Cambridge so much that he got an EE offer - at GCSE I think he got something along the lines of A*A*A*A*ABBCCD.

What are your GCSEs like? It's possible to get into some top 10 unis (Exeter, Royal Holloway, at least) without excellent GCSEs.

What 'definite career path' are you going to follow with a science degree?

For 'late nights and lots of words', can't you take a science degree that involves essays? I've seen some Oxford biologists/human scientists on here talking about weekly essays, though I'm not sure how far this applies to other unis. At some places (UCL, maybe St Andrews) you can do a minor in "Logic and Philosophy of Science", or something like that.

Also, in that topic, only a few of them are Cantabs. apotoftea's at Chichester, and some others are at QMUL or Sheffield - and they seem pretty stretched.

RKD would 25k be more or less than you earn?

History is a good degree as long as its from a proper Uni, otherwise science would be a better option.

Yeah 25k would really be horrible, I feel for you.

But do you have anymore reasons why a history degree interests you? Also if you're not to sure then there are some unis you can apply to that have "free electives" where you may be able to study two modules a year outside your department. There are also combined honours/combined studies programmes that allow the student to take two - four subjects. Sometimes from just one faculty (like arts or social sciences) but usually from the whole uni.

It's not a chip, people who go to Oxbridge who have bought their grades and been trained to do the interview have nothing to be proud of.

Are you saying they should refuse going to a good school to make the achievement "count" more?

3As, 5Bs, 3Cs

The plan was Medicine. But given my grades, I was going to enter as a post graduate in a scien subject and get good A Levels to compensate for them. Pretty definite I think.

I'm attracted to History because I think it involves lots of what I think and using research as a foundation for my ideas and arguments. If I was to go for history, it would be wholeheartedly, so the diea of doing essays on the side the scien doesn't appeal to me, but I will look into it.



Given my grades, that’s my fear



My dad earns that and my mum less. I’ve had everything I need and more from what they’ve been able to provide, but I’d like to live a more comfortable life and beable to provide more for my kids when I get older, because I’ve seen they’ve still struggled.



I like history because…well I guess I kind of treat it like a science. It’s a continued record of human achievements and their downfalls and I think that’s fascinating. And, although there’s lots of recurring themes, the diversity of cultures and civilisations in history is immense. I thinking it’s amazing how the western culture you’re immersed in is only one out of thousands of completely different others that often operate in an entirely different way. And, the more you learn about it all, the more you find how it’s entirely relevant to the present. I think learning about it puts in perspective how much an individual can actual can do and our capabilites. It answers lots of question, or at least asks them, like are our attempts at perfecting our world futile. Well, that’s at least how I think of it, and I’m guessing/hoping it’ll be as fascinating or if not more at uni.....??

Isn't graduate entry medicine still an amazingly competitive option?

Those aren't bad grades outside of the Oxbridge bubble).

It's probably more competitive than the "normal route" as you are competiting against people from all different backgrounds (arts, social scienes and science degrees). For the GEP medicine programmes at some unis you don't necessarily need a science degree. Some would find arts, history in particular, appealing.
What Oxbridge bubble? It's Oxbridge that don't particularly concern themselves with GCSE grades.
OP now that I know your GCSE grades I'd say there was only one (arrogant ) universitiy in the entire country that you won't get into - on the basis of grades alone. Even then for all we know Durham may suddenly decide to drop their GCSE requirements and interview candidates instead. You have a wealth of options available, have a look around.
Also, don't forget that there's more than just the top 10.

It's probably more competitive than the "normal route" as you are competiting against people from all different backgrounds (arts, social scienes and science degrees). For the GEP medicine programmes at some unis you don't necessarily need a science degree. Some would find arts, history in particular, appealing.



What Oxbridge bubble? It's Oxbridge that don't particularly concern themselves with GCSE grades.

OP now that I know your GCSE grades I'd say there was only one (arrogant ) universitiy in the entire country that you won't get into - on the basis of grades alone. Even then for all we know Durham may suddenly decide to drop their GCSE requirements and interview candidates instead. You have a wealth of options available, have a look around.

Also, don't forget that there's more than just the top 10.

You might stand a chance of getting in to Oxbridge with 'poor' GCSEs but that doesn't mean they don't concern themselves with them. Of course it might just be that most of the students that get in there have 6-8 A*s at GCSE.

I'm attracted to History because I think it involves lots of what I think and using research as a foundation for my ideas and arguments. If I was to go for history, it would be wholeheartedly, so the diea of doing essays on the side the scien doesn't appeal to me, but I will look into it.

I like history because…well I guess I kind of treat it like a science. It’s a continued record of human achievements and their downfalls and I think that’s fascinating. And, although there’s lots of recurring themes, the diversity of cultures and civilisations in history is immense. I thinking it’s amazing how the western culture you’re immersed in is only one out of thousands of completely different others that often operate in an entirely different way. And, the more you learn about it all, the more you find how it’s entirely relevant to the present. I think learning about it puts in perspective how much an individual can actual can do and our capabilites. It answers lots of question, or at least asks them, like are our attempts at perfecting our world futile. Well, that’s at least how I think of it, and I’m guessing/hoping it’ll be as fascinating or if not more at uni.....??

*Most any government analyst position is always open to history majors because we are good critical thinkers. Every gov analyst spot I looked up had history as an accepted degree.*

what jobs are government analysit jobs? i need exact careers plz to llok up on the internet. Sounds interesting!

No, just that they shouldn't be smug about it over people who could have done just as well if not better given the chance.

what jobs are government analysit jobs? i need exact careers plz to llok up on the internet. Sounds interesting!

Come off it, you're at Leeds.

But don't you find it a bit boring hardly having to do any work whatsoever at Leeds? I imagine its great at first, but after a while...