The UCL PPE thread

Reply 121

Original post by Rid

Yup, I'm from India :smile:

Best of luck for all the offers :smile:

Ah ok

Thank you, and best of luck to you too! :smile:

Reply 122

Original post by economicsrocks

Congrats on getting to the interview stage, I would have loved to :colondollar:

Pretty sure it was the TSA which let me down, but hey, still got the other unis to hope for!

My TSA went terribly too!

Original post by Teddysmith123

Yh I've been saving up so that I can go to asia for two months then come back do an extra a level in further maths then go again in august! Lol I can't wait! :tongue:

Will all you guys be firming ucl if you get an offer?

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That sounds awesome, i'm jealous! Yeah if I get an offer I'll definitely be firming UCL.

Reply 123

Hi guys,
it's the first time I write here, i'm Ignazio, an italian student!
I'm 17 and next year I would like to apply to uk universities. My marks are high, I will probably pass the Italian Maturitá with 100/100cumlaude or above. I wanted to apply to some top uni such as Oxford, Lse, Ucl, Warwick and King's for PPE, what do you think about it? Am I too ambitious? Are these uni good for ppe?
I'm even head boy and did lots of other activities

Reply 124

Original post by Dprince

My TSA went terribly too!

I guess it's just unfortunate they put so much emphasis on it! Good luck with the rest of your applications :smile:

Reply 125

Teddysmith123

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Original post by Dprince

My TSA went terribly too!

Do you know exactly what you got for the tsa? I want to know but don't know if I should email oxford or if it will be released online through the site using the pin we were given after we took the test?

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Reply 126

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Original post by Dprince

My TSA went terribly too!

Do you know exactly what you got for the tsa? I want to know but don't know if I should email oxford or if it will be released online through the site using the pin we were given after we took the test?

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Not exactly yet but above the threshold in order to be interviewed I guess! The results are released on the 15th and you can login using the pin they gave you when you sat it. You have to register first though on the TSA website and you can do that now :smile:

Original post by economicsrocks

I guess it's just unfortunate they put so much emphasis on it! Good luck with the rest of your applications :smile:

Yeah the guy in my interview said my score was okay even though I know I had to guess the last 10 questions lmfao?! Thank you, and to you too!

Reply 127

Original post by Ibac

Hi guys,
it's the first time I write here, i'm Ignazio, an italian student!
I'm 17 and next year I would like to apply to uk universities. My marks are high, I will probably pass the Italian Maturitá with 100/100cumlaude or above. I wanted to apply to some top uni such as Oxford, Lse, Ucl, Warwick and King's for PPE, what do you think about it? Am I too ambitious? Are these uni good for ppe?
I'm even head boy and did lots of other activities

Sounds like you're just the sort of person that they want. If you have high marks and have done lots of other activities (like being Head Boy- I was too, welcome to the club :wink:

) then it sounds like you could make a really competitive application.

Classically, Oxford's PPE course is known as the best in the world (although to be fair it's only British Universities that run PPE as a course in it's own right). All the rest of the universities that you have named all run good PPE courses too. Another good one to look at is York, their course is pretty prestigious. As is Durham's. Of course though, it's always look good to think about which Universities are up and coming. Exeter, for example, isn't very prestigious at the minute but is battling up the university leaderboards and could be held in high prestige by employers in decades to come. In that way, your degree is almost like an investment, and you have the chance to pick some of the courses that you think will be held as most valuable by employers when you graduate/in future.

UCL is great for this as it's a highly presitigious university as is, with a brand spanking new PPE course that the university will want to challenge Oxford with. Also, in the first few years of the course, they will want to solidify it's place on the leaderboard by drafting in top professors and investing a lot of their funding in it, so it's always best to look into things like that too :smile:

Reply 128

Original post by Dprince

Sounds like you're just the sort of person that they want. If you have high marks and have done lots of other activities (like being Head Boy- I was too, welcome to the club :wink:

) then it sounds like you could make a really competitive application.

Classically, Oxford's PPE course is known as the best in the world (although to be fair it's only British Universities that run PPE as a course in it's own right). All the rest of the universities that you have named all run good PPE courses too. Another good one to look at is York, their course is pretty prestigious. As is Durham's. Of course though, it's always look good to think about which Universities are up and coming. Exeter, for example, isn't very prestigious at the minute but is battling up the university leaderboards and could be held in high prestige by employers in decades to come. In that way, your degree is almost like an investment, and you have the chance to pick some of the courses that you think will be held as most valuable by employers when you graduate/in future.

UCL is great for this as it's a highly presitigious university as is, with a brand spanking new PPE course that the university will want to challenge Oxford with. Also, in the first few years of the course, they will want to solidify it's place on the leaderboard by drafting in top professors and investing a lot of their funding in it, so it's always best to look into things like that too :smile:

Thank you so much for all these information, they're really useful! Oxford is my firm and i really want to get in, so lets try!
Ps What do you think about Kings?

Reply 129

Original post by Dprince

Yeah the guy in my interview said my score was okay even though I know I had to guess the last 10 questions lmfao?! Thank you, and to you too!

You were really lucky then! I had to guess loads of questions as well, but clearly I didn't get many right! Thank you :smile:

Reply 130

Original post by Ibac

Thank you so much for all these information, they're really useful! Oxford is my firm and i really want to get in, so lets try!
Ps What do you think about Kings?

Kings run a good course too! :smile:

I've applied there, waiting to hear back :smile:

Original post by economicsrocks

You were really lucky then! I had to guess loads of questions as well, but clearly I didn't get many right! Thank you :smile:

Have you applied to KCL and if so have you heard back from them? I've got quite a weird story about my application to KCL haha!

Reply 131

Original post by Dprince

Kings run a good course too! :smile:

I've applied there, waiting to hear back
Is it true that to get an interview you need a TSA passed with 61 (minimum)?

Reply 132

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Original post by Dprince

Kings run a good course too! :smile:

I've applied there, waiting to hear back
Is it true that to get an interview you need a TSA passed with 61 (minimum)?

For Kings College London?

Reply 133

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Original post by Ibac

For Kings College London?

Sorry I meant for Oxford!

Reply 134

Original post by Ibac

Sorry I meant for Oxford!

You've applied to Oxford and haven't heard back yet?

Yeah, you have to get over a certain score on the TSA although I can't confirm that it's 61. It's around there though.

Reply 135

inclop4.5

Also an oxford reject (post interview). Applied to Ucl, kcl, lse, and nottingham - offers from Nottingham an kcl so far. Has anyone received any offers yet? Or has anyone heard of anyone receiving offers? Thanks :smile:

Reply 136

Original post by Dprince

You've applied to Oxford and haven't heard back yet?

Yeah, you have to get over a certain score on the TSA although I can't confirm that it's 61. It's around there though.

Nono, It was just a question!

Reply 137

Original post by Dprince

Have you applied to KCL and if so have you heard back from them? I've got quite a weird story about my application to KCL haha!

No I didn't! I applied to LSE and Warwick too, still waiting on them. What happened with your application?! :smile:

Reply 138

Original post by inclop4.5

Also an oxford reject (post interview). Applied to Ucl, kcl, lse, and nottingham - offers from Nottingham an kcl so far. Has anyone received any offers yet? Or has anyone heard of anyone receiving offers? Thanks :smile: