Calling Glasgow to appeal against rejection.

It is worth a try I suppose!
I, along with people in my school, who applied for English Lit at Glasgow and met, if not surpassed, the entry requirements (AABB/AABBC etc) and have just been rejected also... so it may be a long shot?
Good luck though either way, you wont know until you try!

I think in theory you could go on to a less popular course and then switch across. I know several people who have changed their degree course.

However, if you want to 'switch' and change to English lit you'll still need to do all the required aspects of the course to enter Honours, so you can't get around the need to do the language course.

I really appreciate your info but I'm a little confused. Does that mean I'd need to do Classics and Latin for two years, and switch to single honours English Lit in third? English Language is a requirement in first or second year to do single honours English Lit.

I was planning on taking Classics and Latin as outside courses anyway.

No, you wouldn't be allowed to do Honours English if you have not done the first and second year courses, as well as the required English language course. So you could do Latin and/or Classics, but you would still need to do all the English courses. Does that make sense?

I see. So it could go:

1st year: Classics, Latin, English Lit
2nd year: Classics, English Lang, English Lit
3rd year: English Lit
4th year: English Lit

Yep, that's what I mean. I'm not sure if Classics has any requirements, but that's easy to check on the course catalogue.

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Have you ever heard of anyone not getting onto their outside course choices?

Erm, good question! I know for psychology you won't get onto Honours if you didn't UCAS it and for my course (geography) you need to achieve at least a B in second year geography to get in. I'm not too sure about others though.

I think if it comes down to them not having enough places, it goes to those who applied for it through UCAS, and then probably using grades and a lottery. Although I don't think this is all that common.

So if anyone drops out of Lit, do you think it's more likely than not that I can pick it up? On the Edinburgh forum they said they'd never heard of anyone not getting their outside course. Hopefully people will drop out. I need to get my foot in the door first, though ...

EDIT: Could I still do joint honours Classics and English if I can't get onto English lit in the first year?

They usually manage to factor in that people will do the course as their outside subject, so I think it's quite rare for people to not get on that course. Again, I think it's only psychology that has that problem.

If you don't do level 1 and 2 English you won't be able to do Honours.