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thanks, it does. a few more questions if you dont mind.
What was your A level result and did you mention a lot of extra curricular activities in your personal statement?

How likely is it for someone to become a charted engineer with a BEng and Msc?

Do you study multiphase flows?

Hi guys
I'm entering my final year here at Imperial. If you guys have any questions regarding the course/Imperial feel free to ask!

Thanks for making this thread - reading through it has been really helpful!


I was just wondering if my subject choices could affect my application? I'm currently studying AS levels in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Economics (Predicted all A's). Will my lack of Physics put me at a significant disadvantage?


I was also planning to only continue with Maths, Further Maths and Chemistry at A2, or is this a bad idea? The only reason I'd study a forth would be for Imperial and I feel as though I would be much more secure in achieving higher grades if I studied three

I'm in my first year at Imperial. I didn't do Physics which means that in my 'properties of matter' lectures at first, I often had no idea what was going on. But it's fine because the lecturer points you to a section of the Atkins book which you can read to build up your knowledge. And I find that once I go over my lecture notes and read the relevant material in the textbook, it all makes sense. So it's fine not to have done Physics before. It really isn't a problem at all. I also didn't do further maths.

Oh okay, thanks so much! I hope you don't mind me asking, but what were your subjects/grades at A level, and do you know anyone on your course who only took three A levels? Thanks again

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Hi guys
I'm entering my final year here at Imperial. If you guys have any questions regarding the course/Imperial feel free to ask!

The course is very rigorous. The hard part is when the coursework kicks in. Lectures are usually only 3-5 hours a day and when there is no coursework (which happens only around 2 weeks per term) this is easy to handle. The coursework is hard and you often stay pretty late and work for the whole weekend as the deadline gets nearer and nearer.
Its not too bad though as you're usually in decent sized groups (6 ppl) and it can be quite fun to work together.

I'm an international student too. I haven't started applying for jobs yet as I'm doing a work placement and I could get offered a job at the end.
On the whole, the department has a pretty good % for the number of students that get a job after 6 months from graduation. I can't remember the figure but its high. Its a mix, some work in the UK others work back home.
There are companies where you can only apply if you are UK/EU citizen but the majority of the big companies (BP, Shell, Exxon) don't have any problems sponsoring international students for work visas.

Hey, I'm doing my Maths exploration now, and I've decided to do it on e. I think it'd be nice to link it to the course I've applied for (Chem Eng) - are there any relatively straightforward uses of e in Chem Eng that you think I could use?

This is what pretty much worried me about engineering before I took a gap year.
I mainly wanted to do engineering for the career prospects rather than out of interest. And since I was already struggling with maths and physics in my A levels (okay mostly due to depression/anxiety anyway), I decided that I should stop considering to study engineering because I would probably fail or drop out.

Do you think I dodged a bullet with this one?

when is the chemical engineering course deadline for ucas?

Career prospects as in joining a career outside of engineering e.g banking/consultancy?
Well engineering at uni is definitely a big step up from A-levels so if you struggle with those subjects I wouldn't recommend it.