Imperial 2009/2010 Applications and Decisions Thread

Well done on the offer . Could you please post all the details asked in the first post? It's useful for other applicants (particularly those applying next year).

You haven't added me to the list yet! :P

That's my last interview out of the way. It was alright - certainly not great, but not a total disaster. Wouldn't be surprised to get a rejection from there though. Loved the place, the tour was amazing (and the Ethos building is one of the greatest places I've ever seen ) and the students really showed their enthusiasm. But an interview with 5 panelists? ******* hell that's unnerving!

Oh, and if you're the guy who had an interview at 2.45 today, I really hope you're reading this, because I feel I have a moral obligation to tell you that you are such a degrading, hypocritical pathetic excuse for a human being, and I sincerely hope I never meet anyone with the same attitude as you again.

5 panelists ? Good lord! I'd freak out .

What did the guy at 2.45 do?

Has anyone who had a Physics interview on Tuesday 17th March heard back yet?...I'm getting nervous

He was shameful. A brief background: we're all sitting in a room, having a bit of a chat about the application procedure. First thing comes up, the BMAT. Someone tells us he got 18.1 (a pretty good score) and he loudly barks out "Good Lord, what went wrong? You must have been having an off day". Then, when someone mentions they got 10.5 in section 3 he comes out with "Yes, I only got 13.5. Shame really, I would have loved to get 15."

Later, someone asks him if he's nervous to which he responds, knowing full well that the guy next to him has got no offers, "Well, I would be if I didn't have any offers, then I'd be so nervous". He belittled some person about who was going to be interviewing them, laughed at another person responses and just generally was a despicable person.

I picked him up on it at least twice about things like his BMAT comments, and his only response was "Oh really?" in such a smug, superior, condescending way. He even had a dig at LMH (my College in Oxford) by saying how far out it was, and when I corrected him he laughed at me and said "Oh, well it must have moved since you were there".

His attitude completely disgusted me - he went out of his way to make others feel uncomfortable and nervous before their interview just to give himself the best possible opportunity. It may just have been an act, but for me he symbolises everything bad that I've encountered in the whole admissions process for Medicine.

Wow, has the physics department managed to create a time machine?

Good lord. He sounds absolutely horrific. I assume he at least got in to Oxford or Cambridge? Otherwise if I were you I'd have given him a right dressing down .

I tried to, but at the end of the day I thought there was no getting worked up about it when I had an interview. If I see him again though...

And yeah, he got into Oxford. Enough to put me off going, tbh.

Oh missed a bit: He was moaning about how pathetic Birmingham is because they reject so few people after interview. The funny thing is - he still got rejected post interview! How he could sit there with a smug grin like that, I'll never know.

Ouch . Kinda puts you off the interview process entirely, if it can't weed out that kind of person from MEDICINE what kind of person does it let through for everything else?

OT: Is that the olsen twins in your avatar?

Has anyone who had a Physics interview on Tuesday 17th February heard back yet?...I'm getting nervous

No not yet....could be weeks yet (P.S I was the ginger girl you were talking to)

No not yet....could be weeks yet (P.S I was the ginger girl you were talking to)

Good lord more female physicists!

Tom dear you really need to calm down...

Female physicists are exciting enough but applying to Imperial too! Its madness I tell ya

Female physicists are exciting enough but applying to Imperial too! Its madness I tell ya