Official UCL Applicant Thread for Entry in 2011!

I know another person rejected for History with A*AA the other day :/

Out of so many things.. tsk tsk I'm Asian too, if this helps lol

well when its you that gets rejected it's not gonna be all the life goes on crap.

It came in my emails

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BSc Economics
Accepted!
Offer- 39 IB points, 7 in M HL...
I'd choose LSE/Cambridge over UCL though. Hope they accept me

I'm a little late but can I be added to the list? Physics applicant here

Has anyone else heard from Psychology yet? Heard they are giving out questionairres. I emailed and asked them about my application as its been 6 weeks and they said to email after 4, and just got a reply saying its still being considered and i will hear soon :/

Have you received an offer, or just applied?

Just applied. Is the list for offer-holders?

I think OP has stopped filling in, but I think I've seen about 4 physics (straight) applicants so far. I've got ack but no offer

Life does go on >.> it's one university out of the 5 .. doesn't make sense to apply only to 'reach' universities.

I mean, there are hundreds of great universities out there. If you want to get into the top ones you have to take into account that your competition is going to be pretty harsh; you don't need to have the greatest recommendation/personal statement ever written but obviously if somebody with A*A*A* (or better) gets rejected then there was something seriously wrong.

If everybody was compared solely on the basis of their grades you'd get a huge bias towards the upper classes of society. I've heard, on TSR, of people with seriously good grades (10+ A*s at GCSE ... 4 or 5 A*s predicted and AS) and they bring stuff up like mentioning IQs in your personal statement. Obviously if you tell anybody at a university that your IQ, at 145, is above the 99.99% percentile, they will look at you as if you're an idiot. But it proves a point: some people just don't get that intelligence is only one component of your life. They're judging you on what you will bring to the school, not on how well you can memorize information.

And yeah it is only one essay. But heck, you have months to redraft it, talk about it with teachers, friends, parents, etc.. if you seriously mess up on it then it's your own fault.

Ah, same. I was acked by email this morning and have since then become dangerously addicted to Track. When did you apply?

Applied 15th Nov, Ack 17th

Want offers!!

All the best

um i mean that bath is really good fun according to some friends who go there, and im cautious about imperial because ive been told it has a reputation of being alot of hard work and not much fun like other unis

heard anything from ucl yet by the way? they're starting to email open day invites already, even though their first linguistics one clashes with cambridge ling interviews...

i think i just want to know they haven't forgotten about us i mean i wouldn't even mind if they sent me the dreaded questionnaire!

york have just started offering, got my first one for AAB the other day expect yours soonly!