Ask a Current UCL Student: The Official Thread

Are there active political societies? I realise that in London I'll be able to find one anyway, but I'd still like to know if the university has one. Especially a conservative one.

Hi,

I applied to UCL for the Computer Science course. I want to know how the course is.

Also, how is the campus - is it big, safe, lively? Is it close to the city/in the city, and does it have on-campus boarding?

hey! i am year 12 student currently studying in a very well known private all girls school. i am currently a guinea pig as i am doing the new cammbridge pre u course . my principal subjects are Economics,Maths,Geography along with thecompulsory GPR. I might pick up AS photography in my UVI year.
I want to study Management at uni.
i was thinking information management at ucl
i was wondering...
1) do i need an ICT gcse or Alevel ICT to qualify for this course?
i didn't do ICT gcse. i did Maths, Eng, Englit, French,Spanish, Geography, Science,
Add Science, Drama and RS
2) what are the normal offers?
3) what do peoples gcse grades look ilke for this course?
(i got 1A*(RS), 8As ,1B(englit) not great but ok)
4) what could help me stand out?
at school i do Leiths, young enterprise, gold duke of edinburgh, peer support,
im on the house commiteee, i did bronze dofe,i do two grade 7 speech and
drama,I am head of my tutor group. i was social prefect at my old school, head
of year too.
5) what do u think the grade offers for 2012 applicants will look like?
i think i am likely to get Geography-A Economics- B Maths-A/B

PLEASE HELP ME! ANYONE
especially those who have been accepted into this course, currently studying this course, wanting to study this course, etc.
THANK YOU X

I have an interview in February for maths. What is normally asked other than your normal maths problems?

You just became even more of a legend! Although I did imagine you were older. I can't answer but I will ask my friend this week when I see him.

lol legend? You a UCL student? What do you study? I'd love to go to UCL so it would be much appreciated if you can ask. I just want to go there well-prepared so i can impress

How do you plan on stopping UCL cutting the smaller degrees?

They're not trying to take away SS/Icelandic Studies are they?!

Also, you should know that if I didn't love Swedish so much, my next choice would be Icelandic. But I plan on self-studying/taking Old Norse and risk sounding like a very old-fashioned speaker on my trips to Iceland.

Haha, you'll miss out heavily on pronunciation and speaking fluency that way, but I'd definitely enjoy seeing that. Do it.

They're not taking them away yet, but I can't see them lasting that long under the new set-up.

Haha, maybe I'll kindly ask the Icelandic profs to check up on my progress. There's another fellow scandi student starting this year whom I call my study buddy because she too wants to learn Icelandic! If ever you see two American girls walking about Reykjavik speaking a very warped version of Icelandic, that's us.

Don't worry- we'll rally up the whole department and protest in various Scandinavian languages. They can't say no to that.

Well, Swedish sounds like gobbledegook anyway, so they can just get rid of them pretending they've no idea what you're saying. Seriously, though, it's one of the smallest departments in the university during a time of cuts, it's not hard to see whither the wind might blow.