Boy, aged 16 to study Maths at Harvard University!!

Nice, is he planning on doing Medicine?

Yep - after a gap year.

Nice. I’m guessing you help with Maths?

Yeah and he helps me with Chemistry and Biology (he's quite good at them). To be honest, he's the reason I started becoming motivated to become a better mathematician - brotherly competition xD

What about you - any siblings?

Ah that’s nice. Are you going to do Biology and Chemistry next year? That’s good, I mean you’ve become very skilled at it as well. Yeah, 2 brothers and a sister. Younger brother and sister are in the same year as you and older brother is at university. Do you have any more siblings?

Yeah I think so. In the lower sixth chem challenge I got exactly enough to get a gold (33/68) which is p funny.

Yep, you have to pay individual application fees for each uni, and sit the SAT and usually two subtests (i.e. Subject specific SATs) when their dates are available in the UK (often in big cities like London or Birmingham, they don't go to small towns, unfortunately).

You'll need to write a college essay, which isn't very similar to a UCAS PS. They look for different things, but great examples are all over the internet.

Honestly, another negative, academically speaking imo of American unis is that their interviews are personal, and non-academic. They'll talk about you and what you can do for the uni based on your life and college essay - no intellect questions.

Unfortunately not. I'm either moving into a math specialist school (to do Maths and Physics A levels) or staying at my current school. Only reason I'm hesitant about a math school is because I'm already doing the Maths A levels this year so it'll be a boring there. If I end up staying at my own school, I'll be taking up Chemistry and Physics (not Biology though).

Ah, so they're also in the run up to GCSEs? Good luck to them - hope they get what they want! What do they plan on doing later on?

What's your older brother studying?

And yeah - I have 3 brothers. One in year 8; one in year 13 and one who finished university.

I bet that went right on the good ol' UCAS

Ofc not.

This is why the rich attend the best unis in America. The UK media should look at "merica before they **** off every top uni in the UK for not helping social mobility.

Really? I think it's better for them to not be intellectual as they're more relaxed and conversational. I had 6 interviews and all went really well and were very relaxed and laid back. The interviewers dont wanna break you, they genuinely want to help you get in, so in most cases the interview helps your app

I saw on an article that over 6000 people applied to Harvard alone for early entrance, I bet in the UK that number is a lot lower.

That’s honestly so cool. How would you study Maths when you’ll have done maths and Further maths? I think you’d like it in a maths specialist school though.

If you do stay in your current school I think you’ll like Physics because compared to the work that you’ve taken up you will find it easy. The same applies with chemistry.

They’re both clueless on what they want to do later on. I think they both might Biology and Chemistry though. Nowhere near as smart as you though lol. My older brother is studying Law.

3 brothers that must be fun lol. Wow what did your older brother study at university?

Yeah but then that’s crap for us.

To be honest, I'm going because they have amazing Olympiad scores and stuff - they train students for BMO1/BMO2 and the Maths challenges and stuff - they also have pHd problem solvers come in to train students.

Yeah, I think A level Physics will be a lot of fun - I've covered a good percentage of it during Maths/FM (M1-M3) so that'll make it easier (I've also heard it's quite a monstrous A level xD). Chemistry also looks amazing - a lot of Maths modules too (moles and stuff; bond angles (C4 vectors)).

A lot of people that age are pretty clueless (myself included). You can introduce them to Maths and sciences and challenges and stuff (they'll probably like logical problem-solving stuff) so by time they reach sixth form, they can be very good at it. I think anybody with the right resources can become better at a subject (I had level 4/5 in SATs year 6).

Law? My friend's brother does that - it seems to be really fun. The show Suits makes it very exciting xD Does he do stocks and stuff - law students tend to do that (and make good money).

Yeah, 4 brothers is quiet a lot for my mom xD He studied medicine(surgeon).

Haha, I'm Welsh

Really? I think it's better for them to not be intellectual as they're more relaxed and conversational. I had 6 interviews and all went really well and were very relaxed and laid back. The interviewers dont wanna break you, they genuinely want to help you get in, so in most cases the interview helps your app

The thing is tho you gotta spend money to make money, especially if you're applying for aid as thats a huge investment on their part. Also you can easily get a waiver if the costs prevent you from applying.