Headstart STEM courses

I've applied for an engineering one!

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Original post by Jordan97

I've applied for an engineering one!

Which Unis? is it one of the broad-based engineering courses? i saw there was a Cambridge one iirc.

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Original post by Bobjim12

Has anyone applied for these? Or has anyone been on one?

Hoping to get onto the Durham or Warwick Computer Science ones.

I applied to broad based at Cambridge, got a fast track offer the other day for Material sciences. Not entirely sure what that is but I went ahead with it :tongue:

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Original post by Super199

I applied to broad based at Cambridge, got a fast track offer the other day for Material sciences. Not entirely sure what that is but I went ahead with it :tongue:

Fast track offer? you must be some genius!

Which Uni was that?

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Original post by Bobjim12

Fast track offer? you must be some genius!

Which Uni was that?

Cambridge - Lucy Cavendish College (I think), and far from genius haha.

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Original post by Super199

Cambridge - Lucy Cavendish College (I think), and far from genius haha.

Well, you must have put something in your application to make yourself attractive!

Did you apply for a range of different degrees? I just applied for 5 computer science courses :/

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Original post by Bobjim12

Well, you must have put something in your application to make yourself attractive!

Did you apply for a range of different degrees? I just applied for 5 computer science courses :/

3 broad based engineering and 2 chemical engineering. Where did you apply?

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Original post by Super199

3 broad based engineering and 2 chemical engineering. Where did you apply?

Durham, Warwick, Sheffield, Aston and some other place, can't remember, think York.

i was interested in the Nuclear Physics at Manchester but eh i don't think i want to go on to do a physics degree so felt it wasn't worth it in case i was offered.

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Original post by Bobjim12

Which Unis? is it one of the broad-based engineering courses? i saw there was a Cambridge one iirc.

Yeah all broad based at Cambridge, Warwick, Imperial, Surrey and Oxford

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Original post by Bobjim12

Is there any other things similar to headstart available?

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Original post by Jordan97

Yeah all broad based at Cambridge, Warwick, Imperial, Surrey and Oxford

Can you explain exactly what it means by broad-based? As i believe engineering is a rather broad area of expertise, it would be difficult to fit it all in.

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Original post by Bobjim12

Can you explain exactly what it means by broad-based? As i believe engineering is a rather broad area of expertise, it would be difficult to fit it all in.

Each uni offers a slightly different course but basically they try and give you a taster of the main types of engineering, ie. most of them contain some form of civil, mechanical and chemical. The idea is to try and narrow down your choice of what you want to specialise in.

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Original post by Super199

Is there any other things similar to headstart available?

I believe Cambridge offers weekend residentials to some of the colleges, although that's about all i know about it.

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Original post by Jordan97

Ah, that's quite good then. Are you wanting to go into Engineering but unsure which then?

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Original post by Bobjim12

Ah, that's quite good then. Are you wanting to go into Engineering but unsure which then?

Well I want to do mechanical engineering but I think it would be beneficial to experience other types as well just in case I find something I didn't previously consider really interesting!

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Original post by Jordan97

Well I want to do mechanical engineering but I think it would be beneficial to experience other types as well just in case I find something I didn't previously consider really interesting!

that's a good idea, was there not a mechanical one available?

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