geography application

1. Speak to the universities directly about your chances of an offer. It’s better to apply somewhere and get rejected than waste a choice on a university that you have no intention of accepting.

2. Employers employ YOU not your degree. The key things that influence employability is your degree classification and your experience outside your studies. So the main thing when picking a university is finding somewhere that you think you’ll be happy and motivated to do your best both inside your studies and beyond them.

3. This is nonsense. BA or BSc for a degree is based on the decision of a committee in the university when the degree was started - for most geography degrees that will have been in the 40s or 50s so completely irrelevant to the course content today. As above - your degree classification is more important than the type of award. Some specific jobs will look for specific content from your degree - but if you wouldn’t enjoy a dissertation on those topics then you wouldn’t enjoy a career in them either!

I was wondering how you'd go about the first point. Do you suggest just dropping the universities admissions team and email?

I am not sure whether to choose a uni based on prestige or where I believe i would perform the best.

No. I advise picking up the phone and ringing them. Or even better speaking to someone from admissions in person at an open day.

If you email then you’re likely to be referred back to the website or given a stock response. If you have an actual conversation then you can make it clear that you aren’t asking about the standard entry requirements but the way applications are filtered to decide who gets and offer and who gets a rejection.