Official UCL Applicant Thread for Entry in 2011!

Does anyone know when they start giving out offers?

I think that there are people on here who have already received offers for physics and math. Not sure for other subjects, though.

Oh.Nice man.

Hope I get an offer from UCL as well.

Can you tell me my chances if I mail you my Profile??

Congrats One question, when you got your offer, did you get an email from UCL as well as the Track update?

Well I have an offer for Economics and Business with East European Studies and I think I saw one or two History/History of Art offer holders around here somewhere It's all very random though, the timing of offers, so I wouldn't go by any of this. Good luck!

Congrats on the offer! ^^

Nothing for Philosophy and Economics yet?

Nein...... How's TSA btw?

While, ideally I would love to study Philosophy and Politics combined- but no universities I like really offer it. So, i thought i would try my luck and apply to them individually at UCL. I mean, i know loads of people who have done this kind of things. The two area link extremely well, and when talking about Philosophy i spoke about Political Philosophy (Locke's- Civil Treatise of Government) and the Ethics of Politics (for example, Guantanmo and how the US manipulated domestic and international law and whether this was right.) . Also, because it's PEES I spoke about early C20th Russia and Marx's Communist Manifesto- which is a big political philosophy text. Admittedly, my personal statement does lean more towards Politics, but you don't know until you try- do you? I would always regret it if I didn't give it a shot. I decided not to apply to oxbridge in the end (because i majorly was not ready for the 15th October deadline ) so, Philosophy was like my one fantasy option to replace the oxbridge fantasy lol.

anyway, longgggg rant overrr.

My best friend is at SSEES and his accommodation is RIGHT opposite SEESS, so when i've gone to visit him i've just gazed longingly at SEESS from his window. lol. have you heard about interview or anything yet? mine hasn't been acknowledge yet i looked on the website and they said they start interviewing for PEES 12th January...

Not TOO bad, I found that the questions were way too long but that the essays were okay fingers crossed for the next month! what about you?

i'm actually waiting for my rejection response now

Sounds like you pulled it off well I applied for five different courses... PPE, PolPhil, EuroPol, International Studies + PEES! Haha.

Really?? Wow, that's awsm! Does your best friend like the course/department? I applied on 14th Oct and I've been acknowledged. I just received an email from UCL saying that they're not unlikely to give offers until the end of January, because they're waiting until January 15th. They're only giving rejections up until that point! So after acknowledgement, no news is good news

name: -lilly-
Year of entry: 2011
course: Politics and East European Studies

grades: 7A* 3 A at GCSE . 4 A at AS (declared)
predictions: 4 A

decision: conditional ABB

conclusion: it's all in the personal statement

name: -lilly-
Year of entry: 2011
course: Politics and East European Studies

grades: 7A* 3 A at GCSE . 4 A at AS (declared)
predictions: 4 A

decision: conditional ABB

conclusion: it's all in the personal statement

PHEW. i'm not the only one applying for 5 different courses. YAY.
very pleased to hear that they aren't giving out offers until January. Looking though this thread has made me really worried as offers have already been given out to some people! I found someone at UCL who is studying PEES and he was telling me about the interview and stuff- it was really helpful. If we get interviews we shall have to re-continue this conversation and i shall try and find out a bit more about the interview to tell you ( as he was pretty drunk when he was talking about it)

Well I have an offer for Economics and Business with East European Studies and I think I saw one or two History/History of Art offer holders around here somewhere It's all very random though, the timing of offers, so I wouldn't go by any of this. Good luck!