Hi! I’m currently in year 12 and my school is really starting to push us to put together a short list of 5 universities we are going to apply for… the first being an aspiration/the one you want to go to most… and the last being a fallback university in case my grades go very wrong in the actual exam.
I want to study Politics, preferably with a year abroad however I’m not opposed to just doing a course without one and I’m predicted the grades A* in Politics, A* in Philosophy and Ethics, B in English Literature.. it could be possible I’d get a C in English literature instead of a B, it’s not my strongest subject.
I’m absolute on wanting to study in a city centre, I don’t want to be a couple miles away from the city centre as I’d much rather not have to take lots of transport ways to get into the centre for things like social life and night life. This is why the main city I’ve been looking at is London as all of the universities are more or less in the centre or at least close, also the tube is very accessible so it wouldn’t be as awkward for travel restrictions.
I live in Newcastle at the moment, so don’t want to go to any local universities as I desperately want to go away.
My current short list is..
1. Queen Mary University of London
2. Glasgow University
3. Unsure..
4. City, University of London
5. Westminster University
I’d really appreciate some help with recommendations because I’m really struggling with universities with good reputations with reasonable grade boundaries and a good location, City and Westminster are not 100% set because I’m aware of some reputation or organisation problems.. (none of them are completely set at this exact moment, but I think Queen Mary will be at least one option)