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Oh, I'll be majoring in Societies but I have yet to firm the BASc on UCAS. I'm not actually, I'll be sitting my exams this year, are you? :smile:

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Nope I'm sitting my exams this year too! Good luck to you!! AND same haha i have yet to actually hit that "firm" button on UCAS...idk why but I find it kind of intimidating...keep being worried i'll make a mistake haha

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anchorheart

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Original post by TheAnnabelle

Nope I'm sitting my exams this year too! Good luck to you!! AND same haha i have yet to actually hit that "firm" button on UCAS...idk why but I find it kind of intimidating...keep being worried i'll make a mistake haha

Thank you! Best of luck to you too! I'm a little worried about whether I'll manage to get one of the grades so I'm putting off until I'm pretty sure that come results day I'll be getting the grades I need to get in :smile:

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thank you

Hi everyone,

I'm currently down to study French at UCL starting this year after taking a Gap year.

I have come across this course and it sounds amazing.

I was just wondering if there was any chance of switching before/when I arrive at UCL. I was hoping to do the Science and Engineering pathway.

My A-Level grades were: Maths: A*, Physics: A*, French: A, Further Maths: C (did it on the side out of interest)

Thanks

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Reply 564

indigoheart

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Original post by SouthfieldsFC

Hi everyone,

I'm currently down to study French at UCL starting this year after taking a Gap year.

I have come across this course and it sounds amazing.

I was just wondering if there was any chance of switching before/when I arrive at UCL. I was hoping to do the Science and Engineering pathway.

My A-Level grades were: Maths: A*, Physics: A*, French: A, Further Maths: C (did it on the side out of interest)

Thanks

I'd email them now and ask, and if not you can change if you apply during the first few weeks at UCL. We had a few change from human sciences and chemistry in 2013

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Reply 565

SouthfieldsFC

Original post by indigoheart

I'd email them now and ask, and if not you can change if you apply during the first few weeks at UCL. We had a few change from human sciences and chemistry in 2013

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Thank you. Just sent them an email. I'm glad to hear that people have done it before. Any idea what my odds would be like?

Reply 566

gygy

Original post by TheAnnabelle

You can appeal? Good luck to you! What happens when you do this? ( the reason I'm asking is i got rejected from another UCL course ....)

Hi!! I tried to appeal, but they said no appeals :/ so yeah I think UCL is pretty set on not allowing appeals from the people they rejected :frown:

All the best yeah :smile:

Reply 567

gygy

Original post by clawrine

I received the exact same offer and I said I was interested.

The entry requirements for the Science and Tech courses were AAB-ABB while the Arts and Sciences were AAA*-AAA.

I feel like the one we got offered is some thrown together course, it doesn't seem to stand with the others... I could be wrong, but it just doesn't feel right.

HI I'm sorry for the late reply, I rarely check this site :P How's it going with your application for the STS Course? Yeah i get what you mean :X maybe you could consider taking a gap year and applying for the BASc in the early round if you're confident of your candidacy? Sometimes one can be a really strong candidate but still gets rejected because a course just doesn't have enough space because they have accepted others at earlier rounds...at the october round you'll probably have a stronger chance?

Not sure about this though, just my gut feel.

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Ella...

Does anyone currently on the BASc course know if there are students there who turned down an Oxbridge offer? We were told there were on the open day, but I figured this might have been 'propaganda' of sorts... The UCL course just looks great, and I think it would be a shame if I went to a university because of its prestige instead of going to the place that offers the best course! Any thoughts?

Reply 569

shirri

Hiii, just went to UCL yesterday( and its pretty incredible). I was/am interested in Architecture but then when i saw this course i thought it looked incredible and exactly what i was looking for. I would just like to ask, firstly; how many modules/courses you can take. e.g. whether i can take english, philosophy and neuroscience and secondly; where the degree leads and what type of jobs people are going to go into after the course is over and thirdly; do you end up majoring in 2 subjects or.. how do the courses work? are they all equally weighted or do you end up having one main subject

Reply 570

mockingb!rd

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Hi,
Can any Basc students shed some light on this article?
http://cheesegratermagazine.org/investigations/2015/3/4/we-want-our-money-basc.html
thanks

Reply 571

indigoheart

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Original post by mockingb!rd

Hi,
Can any Basc students shed some light on this article?
http://cheesegratermagazine.org/investigations/2015/3/4/we-want-our-money-basc.html
thanks

I can try! I'm the year below though, last year six week internships were compulsory for second years, something people knew from when they signed up for the course. Basc paid for a careers service person to work with Basc student for the year, she had twice weekly drop in sessions to help with applications etc and also she sent round a weekly list of internships to apply for. She also organised a number of internships that were only open for students on Basc.
Basc said repeatedly that they frowned upon unpaid internships and all they advertised were paid, or with a registered charity in which case Basc paid national minimum wage, and this year london living wage on the charities behalf.
I'm really surprised that anyone worked for free when there were so many paid internships advertised and organised, and if anyone was facing an unpaid internship my understanding was that they could find a charity and work there so Basc would pay them. The girl quoted obviously chose to work for an NGO that was not a charity or she would have received a bursary.
I know minimum wage isn't much but it was for six weeks so not even close to the whole summer break.
The compulsory internship scheme has since been cancelled but the support to get an internship remains.

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Reply 572

indigoheart

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Original post by shirri

Hiii, just went to UCL yesterday( and its pretty incredible). I was/am interested in Architecture but then when i saw this course i thought it looked incredible and exactly what i was looking for. I would just like to ask, firstly; how many modules/courses you can take. e.g. whether i can take english, philosophy and neuroscience and secondly; where the degree leads and what type of jobs people are going to go into after the course is over and thirdly; do you end up majoring in 2 subjects or.. how do the courses work? are they all equally weighted or do you end up having one main subject

Hi!
You take 8 modules a year, in first year you get pretty much free choice on 4 of them and in second year free choice on 5 and wider choice on 2
So you could definitely take english philopsophy and neuroscience if you majored in cultures and minored in health and environment
Nobody has graduated yet so I don't know about jobs but current third years already have job offers from American Express, and Goldman Sachs and people I know have had internships in computer programming, journalism, banking, museum work, all sorts of things
All the course are valued equally, but if you majored in cultures you would take 3 modules in that area so english, a literature module perhaps and philosophy and only 1 neuroscience module but each module is weighted equally. This means you major in an area like cultures or societies rather than a subject

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examsucks

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Hi! I'm not sure if you're still answering questions but I was hoping that someone might know whether under my major pathway I can just focus in taking the modules of one subject. So under my major pathway of science and engineering I would simply take computer science modules and in my minor pathway I would only take philosophy modules, would this be ok? Thank you!

Original post by Torvus

Hello peeps,

I am a current student for the new UCL Arts and Sciences course (BASc). It is application time for prospective students to UCL and I noted a significant amount of questions regarding the BASc (our abbr for the course), so I thought I would create a little thread to answer any and all questions you might have about the course.

The course itself is pretty radically allowing you free choice of most modules at UCL. An example of this is me, I am doing the Science & Engineering pathway so my modules include Physics, Engineering and Maths. Plus I am doing a societies pathway so my minor includes Law (though I hope to do Geography next year). Another person I know does English, Spanish and French literature with Physics. It does give you a wide selection which you can specialise into in your 2nd and 3rd years. Plus there are the core courses which cover wide interdisciplinary fields such as Epistemology (super-concepts, censorship), Quantitative methods, research methods etc. Some of the lessons are taught in a completely new way to what has been done before, just google 'flipped lectures' if you're curious.

Furthermore being the flagship degree we have strong support from the university with us being given the biggest and most well furbished common room at UCL, and a very committed and dedicated staff to support us and the degree.

So if you have questions (you may not) just post and I will try my best to answer ^_^

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Torvus

OP

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Hey!

The degree has no restrictions on what subjects you can take in your pathway, it does have a general requirement that you should be semi-consistent with your subjects throughout the years so that you can 'progress' through your years at UCL (e.g. 1st year Introductory Physics -> 2nd year Environmental Physics -> 3rd year Clime Change and Energy).

So to answer your question yes you can focus on just one subject for your major (for example Compsci) and one subject for your minor (for example philosophy). Hope that answers your question :smile:

Original post by examsucks

Hi! I'm not sure if you're still answering questions but I was hoping that someone might know whether under my major pathway I can just focus in taking the modules of one subject. So under my major pathway of science and engineering I would simply take computer science modules and in my minor pathway I would only take philosophy modules, would this be ok? Thank you!

Reply 575

sophieandmillie

Hi, I've just had the reading list through and am wondering how many/which of the books on the list people are planning to read?
Thanks

Reply 576

maxco

Hi! I will probably be a BASc student at the beginning of September (I met all my conditions and uploaded the documents but did not receive any answer D: ) and I wanted to know something about the reputation that the course has. I know that generally the Liberal Arts course are not considered good and with poor job prospects. However, the BASc is not an average Liberal Arts course and has many features that make it probably the best interdisciplinary degree in the UK at least.
But that is my idea, could someone reassure me about this? Is the BASc degree worthy? Does this degree give you good job prospects like the other courses UCL has?
Thanks

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indigoheart

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Original post by maxco

Hi! I will probably be a BASc student at the beginning of September (I met all my conditions and uploaded the documents but did not receive any answer D: ) and I wanted to know something about the reputation that the course has. I know that generally the Liberal Arts course are not considered good and with poor job prospects. However, the BASc is not an average Liberal Arts course and has many features that make it probably the best interdisciplinary degree in the UK at least.
But that is my idea, could someone reassure me about this? Is the BASc degree worthy? Does this degree give you good job prospects like the other courses UCL has?
Thanks

hi

liberal arts courses in the uk seem to be new and rare enough that they have a reputation as new and innovative. also, within UCL basc students have generally established themselves a good reputation as intelligent classmates amongst professors and students (i think)
basc is degree worthy in my opinion because you do mostly the same classes as all UCL's other courses, so if Ucl has a good history and a good life sciences department, and you do courses from both then you have the same level of prestige as both other courses- does this make sense?
basc has its first graduates this year with some very impressive job offers amongst them such as goldman sachs and amex. basc students also have internships with places like jp morgan and kpmg, so employers clearly have a level of respect for the degree.
hope this helps :smile:

Reply 578

indigoheart

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Original post by sophieandmillie

Hi, I've just had the reading list through and am wondering how many/which of the books on the list people are planning to read?
Thanks

i bought a ton of books and none of it ever came in any use at all!
if you're going to read something i recommend where good ideas come from by steven johnson if its still on the list, its really interesting and gets you into an arts and sciences mindset; blink by malcolm gladwell is also a decent read
the introduction to "the two cultures" by snow is available on google and is prep for approaches to knowledge
any ted talks are also always interesting and get you into the right frame of mind

Reply 579

maxco

Thank you very much indigo! I feel less anxious now :smile:

. I hope UCL will contact me in these days, if not I will call them personally to know what is going on with my application.

Thank you very much again

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