SQA Results' Day Discussion Thread - Tuesday 5 August 2014

St Andrews pretty nice for physics so far, just started there this year!

My first choice is actually St Andrews, I love it so much!
Where are you applying and best of luck to you!

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Oh how fantastic!! I was working in the chemistry department there all summer.
My physics teacher and two chemistry teachers studied there and it sounds like a dream!
How are you getting on?

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Yeah it's really nice! I started out as the classic oxford reject haha but frankly I'm thinking that i'm going to enjoy my time here much more than I would have had I got in down south, I already love it here - I'm in DRAges away which is a bit of a trek - but my flat is absolutely brilliant when you think that it's student accomodation. The workload is actually fairly high already - i'm taking physics, maths and astro - so that's to be expected I guess, but I'm fairly glad I didn't take them up on the offer of 2nd year entry!

Aw, it's so nice there! I went up for an open day around Easter but unfortunately they don't offer engineering
I'm applying for Strathclyde (x2), Glasgow, Sheffield and Imperial, first choice is Strathclyde

I was at that open day too! Strathclyde is apparently excellent for engineering. I two friends who spent a week at Strathclyde and they said it was a lovely place to be.

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But there's a bus from DRA isn't there?
I know I'll get rejected from Cambridge however I really like St Andrews so here's to hoping they accept me!
I've applied for the chem/phys joint honours which will be one hell of a workload but that doesn't phase me.
I hope you do really well; it sounds like it's great!


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Yeah first in Scotland!
Was that for headstart or the space school programme?

Ehh the bus isn't that great, doesn't really get you to the physics building in time for those lovely 9am maths lectures. Yeah i'm considering changing to maths/phys when I get to honours - we shall see if I still like maths as much in a couple of years! If you've got the grades for cambridge st andrews will almost certainly accept you, I got an unconditional off of the 5As at higher, so I'm presuming you probably will too. Have you got an entrance test to get through for cambridge?

Space school

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I was there Good chance I'll know them haha

How fantastic! Ross and Heather from Kinross? I applied however I think it was only two acceptances per school.

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I have to be interviewed, the interview will contain questions based on science and maths but they should be reasonable. I am more inclined towards the course I've chosen at St Andrews than Cambridge so here's to hoping I get an unconditional!
I would have thought the uni would have sorted it with the bus company that there are some lectures at 9am. Oh well, do you have a bike there? What's the maths like?

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I've not really investigated the bus that much, but it would only get you into town so distance to the physics building is comparable to the distance from DRA anyway :P, I've got a bike but in the morning the cycle track is so packed it's practically slower than walking - very useful for going to labs and stuff in the afternoon though! The maths is pretty fun atm, i'm doing the module that requires a B at AH so it's not too basic which is good - we get different lecturers for different parts of the course so at the moment we've been getting complex numbers, hyperbolic functions and limits of functions. The complex numbers is basically just a rehash of AH but they have added some stuff in like Euler's formula and some more applications like resolving series and integration so it's ok. The other stuff isn't completely new but it wasn't in AH so my grip on it was tenuous at best, so it's been quite interesting and exciting. The complex number lecturer is about to move onto matrices so hopefully we get some new stuff from outwith AH or that could be kind of dull :/

Well, in case you hadn't guessed by the fact that I just spewed out a freaking essay I'm still quite keen on the old mathematics so it's obviously been ok so far!

Yeah I know them both! It's weird how it works out, I think last year there was 5 from one school. I was the only applicant from my school ...mainly because the teachers didn't know anything about it haha

I heard it was an absolutely amazing experience. I would have loved to go, it would have really suited me. Even right now I'm standing outside my house having into space with my telescope.
Did you enjoy it?

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I absolutely adore maths! I've had mixed experiences with it in school but after higher I loved it; advanced higher is right up my street and I revise at least an hour a day. I think that'll really help when I reach uni, especially with physics. Which degree are you doing? MPhys?

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Meanwhile I'm just attempting to do chemistry while watching Doctor Who haha.
Yeah, it was absolutely incredible! I'm of the 10 for the JSC/KSC trip - it's gonna be even more amazing!!

No way!! That's absolutely incredible! Must be a phenomenal feeling. When are you going? I would be unable to contain my excitement if I were you; you're going to be living the dream

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It's actually so weird thinking that from the original 400 I'm actually in final 10!
It's at the end of this month, it's 3 weeks today until we fly out actually!!
I'm buzzing for it, apart from the jet lag on the way home...we come back to Glasgow on Sunday morning, and I'll have to be in school the next day for peer tutoring. I'll end up punching the first years tbh