Has anyone received an English lit offer from Bristol yet?

Hi so you took a gap year then? Because I will be doing the same I think haha, did you apply to uni last year too?

Woahhh :/ when I went to their open day I asked someone that question, and they said about 5 applicant to every place! then I looked on the website, and found the same thing you did, and that is crazy! Thats more competitive than Durham! I had no idea it was that bad :/!!!

I did apply to Uni last year, got an offer from Birmingham and was all set to go. Got hit by a bout of bad health and couldn't go, so my gap year was kind of forced. I'm quite glad about it though. I got better results than I was predicted, so I can go for places like Bristol this time around. Plus, I really wasn't ready to go to Uni in September: I felt very rushed and unprepared, so this gives me a chance to prepare myself properly, save up some money, get some work experience, hopefully see a bit of the world.

Yeah, it is crazily competitive... but you never know! They give out more offers than places, so maybe we'll be okay!

I know I did, :/ On the basis that yes, i now probably will be rejected for all of them and I guess I can take a gap year and reapply if I do. Well I am predicted A*AA and have a strong application, and want to reach my full potential in English, that is why I went to it. I didn't realise that bristol and exeter are also that competitive though!! :/

Bristol is the most competitive undergraduate university in the country. Bristol along with universities like Exeter (more so over the last few years) and Warwick tend to get a disproportionate amount of applications because they are at the top end of some applicants ambitions (i.e. it is their high-end choice), there are lots of people who talk themselves out of applying to Cambridge, Oxford and UCL, for example, and then there are those who applied to the former but were rejected so the aforementioned tend to be back up choices.

I think you are a little naive when you talk about reaching your 'full potential in English' (whatever that means). The university is a good starting point, but your potential is limited by what you are willing to put into your studies. Nevertheless, you have good grades and I hope for your sake you manage to get where you want to go!

You should take a real course like Physics ; )

Got mine 2 days ago

Sooo jealous!

Don't be, I've not even applied there really.

Ohh yeah, a lot of people, only one person from my college even got an English interview at Oxford! But all the Cambridge applicants got their interviews.

If you applied by 15 January, the latest that most of you will hear from us is 31 March, but of course many of you will hear within a few weeks of applying.

I've got a friend who recently received an offer to study French at Bristol; I've also got a friend who got an offer for Ancient History but was rejected for History. I guess that shows Bristol are giving out offers, but the English department seem to be a bit slow at the moment!