Bristol Engineering Design

Yeah, I've applied for it and then realised that I knew nothing about it. The guy talking about it on open day was really convincing!! Interview for it in 2 weeks time! If anyone can tell me anything about their interview that would be great

Just make sure you know all the basic physics principles and keep a clear head. The interview day is tough (well, it was for me anyway) but the group project is quite fun. And they give you free food

Thanks for the replies!! Keep 'em coming :P

Will504, thanks for the info, it does sounds good, just wanted to be sure! Are you an engineer/at brisol uni??? (:

The interview I had, was not too bad, just had two interviewers, one from one of the sponsor companies, and one was an engineering lecturer from the uni. Mine was quite tough, but interesting!

Then we had a group project, which was pretty straightforward and fun! Plus as mentioned above, the free food was good...make the most of it

Do you mind if I ask, OP, did you get an offer straight away through UCAS or did they send you a letter first and you had to contact them saying you wanted an offer? I phoned them today, and was told that the they are still going through some of the applications (apparently including mine).

Yeah, they sent me a letter saying that they would like to make me an offer, but wanted to wait till it was "more favourably recieved" or something.... I emailed them back in early Jan, and then they made me the offer - I think its so they dont make offers to people who dont have really want to go there... ie. get into oxbridge/ or something...

I'm sure you'll probs get the offer, but good luck anyway! Is it you first choice??

Oh good that's the letter I got. Thanks.

Bristol will be my first choice should I get an offer. It does look like a pretty good course. Durham or Warwick will probably be insurance (depending on what offer they make me).

wow, same, but I think my Warwick offer is higher :/, so not too sure about that...

You do realize now that if I end up at either of those two on Fresher's week I'm going to go round introducing myself as "A Person" (Aper Son) and asking people if they're a paper flower, don't you?

hahaa, I only just 'got' your name :P
yeah, that would probs not be the way to go, if you actually want to seem normal ;P

Bt if you end up at bristol, theres only 25ish people to be deemed weird by (:

Hey, I got my conditional offer from Bristol a few days ago

I'm probably going to firm it so...provided all goes OK...see you in October!

Yeah, I've applied for it and then realised that I knew nothing about it. The guy talking about it on open day was really convincing!! Interview for it in 2 weeks time! If anyone can tell me anything about their interview that would be great

Employers love it. A lot of the big prestigious firms had a hand in making the course in the first place. I was once told by arup that you can be pretty much the most attractive graduate if you went to bristol and did either eng des or another engineering discipline with a european language.

I know a few people on the course, one who is just graduating, and one going into his 5th year.

They both really seemed to like it, but both of them have said its like "Bachelors in Engineering, Masters in bullsh|tt|ng" because by the end you've missed a lot of prerequisites so you have to do a lot of work. They've both really enjoyed it so far and due to the year in industry find it easy to get interships/job offers. They said what will504 said about it feeling like a "jack of all trades".

Same with any Engineering degree, you do feel a jack of all trades but master of nothing :/. Masters is definitely bull****ting. The only difference between masters and bachelors is that in your masters year, you have to remember double, or triple the amount of information and just commit to memory. Its quite sad tbh.