Japanese Language/studies Applicants For 2011

Woo, another Leeds-er =D I'm going for Henry Price, but I'm not bothered where I end up really Hopefully see you there

So you're on your year abroad and then come across signs like these.

Then you get told that this is not against the law in Japan.

How will you react?

Given that there aren't really any Japanese courses available for UCAS Extra and given that the courses have been described on here as "oversubscribed", are the chances of a brother getting onto the course via UCAS Clearing essentially nil? Throughout the year I've grown to despise the course I applied for (Physics) and wish I'd have sent out my Japanese Studies personal statement instead like I intended to. I'd absolutely love to do the course but I don't know if it is at all possible at this stage. I have an offer for Physics at Sheffield but while it feels like the right city, it definitely isn't the right course.

Sheffield does offer an institution-wide language programme, but sadly it doesn't include Japanese from what I saw (someone correct me if I am wrong).

You could ditch this years application cycle and do it over next year, but then you're losing out on the low fee lock-in.

Maybe you can talk to Sheffield and switch to a XXXX + Japanese course after a year, or maybe do Japanese as a Masters programme after finishing Physics?

Hey.

Given that there aren't really any Japanese courses available for UCAS Extra and given that the courses have been described on here as "oversubscribed", are the chances of a brother getting onto the course via UCAS Clearing essentially nil? Throughout the year I've grown to despise the course I applied for (Physics) and wish I'd have sent out my Japanese Studies personal statement instead like I intended to. I'd absolutely love to do the course but I don't know if it is at all possible at this stage. I have an offer for Physics at Sheffield but while it feels like the right city, it definitely isn't the right course.

Apologies if this has been brought up already. The thread is thirty pages long and I wasn't about to read ALL of them... just most of them

Have you tried emailing the department and asking about switching? I've switched from Japanese to Korean Studies and all it took was an email

I don't know if the Japanese department is as flexible as the Korean one, but the Korean tutor told me that they had someone switch from Town Planning at the beginning of term last year.

In my opinion, I think you should email the department just to see if it is a possibility. After all, you don't know until you try

That should really have been the first thing I did, lol. I guess it's worth a shot just on the off-chance that it might be a success. I'm not holding my breath though :P

Thanks for the advice and the story. Town Planning to Korean is quite the turn-around... :L

Stalking somewhat, I have the same offers Firmed Leeds, Sheffield as insurance. Have you by any chance firmed Leeds? It'd be nice to know someone else on TSR was going for the same course as me xD

Stalking somewhat, I have the same offers Firmed Leeds, Sheffield as insurance. Have you by any chance firmed Leeds? It'd be nice to know someone else on TSR was going for the same course as me xD

yhyh same... leeds firmed... sheff seconded

It was that way until I got an offer for Russian from Bristol, so I firmed that one matey. Sorry!

Who else is thinking of firming manchester

I am pretty much set on Manchester. Just waiting for a reply from SOAS but I'm not very hopeful...:/
I got an automatic rejection cos they're so late but they said not to worry about it and tell them if I still want to be considered.

Japanese Studies at Sheffield FIRMED