Top 10 UK Universities

Wtf???

I applied to both, everyone I know got into Warwick within a month of applying. I got an AAB offer within three weeks.

UCL had 800 applicants for 40 places for my course. They rejected 600, and asked 200 to go for a test. I had to go and complete a 1 and a half hour logic test and essay in London in January, after which they rejected the majority of those people who took the test. Offers were AAA rather than AAB.

Only my experience, but I was genuinely fretting and crossing fingers over my UCL app, whereas Warwick just came through for everyone, and that was that.

In my school a couple of people got rejected from UCL and accepted by Oxbridge. That doesn"t happen for Warwick. English at UCL is over 25:1 I think.

Sorry, but I really don"t think that"s true. Warwick seems much easier to get into than UCL.

Peace x

Wtf???

I applied to both, everyone I know got into Warwick within a month of applying. I got an AAB offer within three weeks.

Obviously, there will be a number of courses for which UCL is particularly hard to get into. But I can give you a fair few examples of courses for which Warwick is particularly competitive to get into. And yes, there are students who have been rejected by Warwick but got into Oxbridge. You're also neglecting the sheer number of courses for which UCL is undersubscribed, leading to lower entry entry requirements.

But across the board places like Warwick, Durham and Bristol have higher entry requirements/standards than UCL. Just take a look at the rankings you were quoting, and check out pretty much any other ranking national ranking.

That means nowt (and is just one course)

Back when I applied it was LSE, Durham and Warwick who had the highest offers outside Oxford and Cambridge (with Warwick insisting on the extra AS, despite it being very new at the time). I don't know anyone who received a UCL rejection but a few were rejected by Warwick, Durham and Nottingham. This also means nowt (and is a pathetically small sample size anyway).

It's true that a few unis, including Warwick and Durham, have higher "entry standards". It doesn't mean UCL's easier to get into and I'm not placing any weight on these statistics. But I just wonder how you can say that it's as hard to get into UCL as it is to get into Columbia. Both great unis but completely different unis, looking for different things and located in completely different countries.

Arguing over which is the better or "hardest to get into" uni is pathetic, particularly when both UCL and Warwick are amongst the strongest in the country.

But for the hard competitive university courses, like Philosophy, English, Economics etc., I would have thought UCL will be more competitive on the whole, and entry standards will be higher.

Maybe, maybe not. But that's a different question.

That's not true at all. I've been educated in Singapore, the US, the Philippines and the UK. I've worked for a multi-billion dollar multinational banking company in NYC, London, Singapore and HK, and currently, I'm connected with ADB with headquarters in Manila and Bangkok with sub offices in Shanghai, Dubai, Tokyo and Taiwan. In all these countries I have never met any highly educated person who has heard of King's College, the University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester and University of Bristol but not of the University of Warwick or Warwick Business School. So, I don't know where you're comment is coming from and which country is Warwick not known but Bristol, King's Manchester and Edinburgh are.

Wtf???

I applied to both, everyone I know got into Warwick within a month of applying. I got an AAB offer within three weeks.

I aim to be Prime Minister. Because of this aim, in a few years, I'll be catching up with the rest of the more recognised politicians.

Ergo, aiming means nothing.

These threads make me laugh, but if you want to be precise using valid statistics.

1. Cambridge
2. Oxford
3. LSE
4. Imperial
5. Warwick
6. UCL
7. Durham
8. York
9. Bristol
10. Bath

These are the top 10 from the combination of Teaching/Research & average UCAS tariff.

That's not true at all. I've been educated in Singapore, the US, the Philippines and the UK. I've worked for a multi-billion dollar multinational banking company in NYC, London, Singapore and HK, and currently, I'm connected with ADB with headquarters in Manila and Bangkok with sub offices in Shanghai, Dubai, Tokyo and Taiwan. In all these countries I have never met any highly educated person who has heard of King's College, the University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester and University of Bristol but not of the University of Warwick or Warwick Business School. So, I don't know where you're comment is coming from and which country is Warwick not known but Bristol, King's Manchester and Edinburgh are.

Warwick's reputation has been growing really fast though, not only domestically but also internationally.
btw, I personally cannot stand any person who does not have any serious aim in life. Aimless life = imao, "why don't you die?"

Oh, I have plenty of aims. You miss the point. Y'know, getting a Ph.D is one of them. However, aiming does not mean I will achieve them. Its all very well Warwick saying it wants to be top 50. That means nothing though, there are dozens of Universities who would probably have a similar claim.