How many offers did you get?

Reply 100

Doones

OP

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According to the poll >80% get four or more offers.

Nice work TSR :smile:

Reply 101

pjm600

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Undergrad: No offers - clearing
Postgrad: 3 from 3

Reply 102

DarkEnergy

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Original post by pjm600

Undergrad: No offers - clearing
Postgrad: 3 from 3

Apologies if this sounds rude as that is not my intention, but how could you possibly get 5 rejections? Did you only apply to unis with entry trequirements >>>> your predicted grades?

Reply 103

pjm600

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Original post by DarkEnergy

Apologies if this sounds rude as that is not my intention, but how could you possibly get 5 rejections? Did you only apply to unis with entry trequirements >>>> your predicted grades?

I study in Scotland, where it's mostly based on results in the second last year of school which we have before applying. My grades and predictions for final year just missed the requirements, which for my course are fairly standard across Scotland. Additionally I'd expected an adv. higher result to translate favourably to a requirement at higher, which I was told was later not the case.

Reply 104

DarkEnergy

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Original post by pjm600

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Ah okay, thank you for explaining.

Reply 105

Headingtonian

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Predicted A*A*AA got 5 offers for geology/earth sciences/geophysics (with year abroad apart from Oxford)

Oxford AAAA/A*AA (firm)
Imperial AAA (insurance)
Bristol AAB
Liverpool AAB/ABB + A in EPQ
Cardiff AAA

I'm going to Oxford.

Reply 106

Doones

OP

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I wonder how many of the no/few offers are medics...

Reply 107

mrman2000

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Original post by PotAuFeu

Predicted A*A*A* in Maths, Further Maths and Physics.
Offers (in Computing/CompSci) from Imperial, Warwick, Nottingham, Loughborough.
Rejected from Oxford due to garbage MAT score.

Doesn't imperial use the same MAT? Also, what GCSEs did you get and what was your avg. AS ums?

Reply 108

PotAuFeu

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Original post by mrman2000

Doesn't imperial use the same MAT? Also, what GCSEs did you get and what was your avg. AS ums?

Imperial only cares about the MAT for Mathematics (and maybe JMC?) courses.
I got 8A* and 2A at GCSE.
I didn't send any university my UMS scores so they wouldn't know them but in Maths + FM, I got ~97 UMS (Five 100 UMS plus one 86 UMS). Can't remember my Physics or Chemistry UMS, sorry!

Reply 109

mrman2000

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Original post by PotAuFeu

Imperial only cares about the MAT for Mathematics (and maybe JMC?) courses.
I got 8A* and 2A at GCSE.
I didn't send any university my UMS scores so they wouldn't know them but in Maths + FM, I got ~97 UMS (Five 100 UMS plus one 86 UMS). Can't remember my Physics or Chemistry UMS, sorry!

Thanks. I'm looking at applying to imperial for computing. What kind of stuff did you put on your Personal statement to show passion for computing?

Reply 110

PotAuFeu

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Original post by mrman2000

Thanks. I'm looking at applying to imperial for computing. What kind of stuff did you put on your Personal statement to show passion for computing?

Doing an online CS course, computing work experience, computing books read, with some explanation about what I'd learnt from it.

Reply 111

Doones

OP

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An interesting little chart... over a million applicants getting 4 or more offers

Reply 112

Luke7456

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Original post by jneill

An interesting little chart... over a million applicants getting 4 or more offers

have not looked into offer rate outside maths. I know for maths the offer rate is usually very high unless Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE

However I do not know how this compares to other subjects. I assume for example that LAW/Medicine would very tight on offers.

It would help to know %s here I mean I see the number of offers has gone up but is this due to an increase in applicants or is it due to a higher % of applicants getting offers?

Reply 113

Doones

OP

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Original post by Luke7456

have not looked into offer rate outside maths. I know for maths the offer rate is usually very high unless Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE

However I do not know how this compares to other subjects. I assume for example that LAW/Medicine would very tight on offers.

It would help to know %s here I mean I see the number of offers has gone up but is this due to an increase in applicants or is it due to a higher % of applicants getting offers?