English Lit

I went to see Exeter and thought it was lovely, loved the course, campus, etc...until i got to the talk given by the English tutors. I don't want to put u off, but i have honestly never been to a less inspiring talk in my life. I thought "i don't want to be taught by these people, they'll send me to sleep!" and consequently didn't apply. They have a cheek to ask for AAA, but i think they do that so that when the results come in they can go from the top of the list downwards, and give places that way.

This reminds me of a scene in The World Is Not Enough (not one one of the best Bond films in my opinion) where Bond - pretending to be Russian - encounters Dr Christmas Jones for the first time. Jones is suspicious.

JONES: Your English is very good for a Russian.
BOND: I studied at Oxford.

James Bond is an intelligent man.

J.

I applied for generic English at Oxford, Reading, Nottingham and Bristol, English and creative writing at Warwick and English and journalism at Bangor.

I've had an offer from Reading, a rejection from Oxford and an interview at Bangor in March, but I haven't heard anything from the other three apart from an acknowledgement from Bristol back in November.

I've been checking the UCAS tracker every day, but nothing's come up since Oxford rejected me. The waiting game is evil.

Also doing AEA English and History

Bristol; rejected, when teachers asked why they said because of the competition for places, they had looked at my gcse scores and my one C, in chemistry (despite A's in other subjects) was enough to reject me!

Predicted Grades:
Literature; A
Politics; A
Psychology; A
French; B (as level, absolutley hated french!)
Philosophy; A/B
General studies; A

Unis;
Exeter (accepted) ABB
Cambridge; pooled but not selected
Nottingham; rejected
Warwick; rejected, however my teachers enquired why and warwick said it was because on my ucas form my predicted grades were only A,A,A/B ) and they only interviewed AAA predicted candidates
Bristol; rejected, when teachers asked why they said because of the competition for places, they had looked at my gcse scores and my one C, in chemistry (despite A's in other subjects) was enough to reject me!
York; rejected

When I went to look at Exeter on the admissions day I really didnt like it, to say the least they made the course sound like a creative writing and film studies course rather than the traditional poetry, prac crit and novels. But I don't want to wait another year and in the second year there's sooooo much more flexability! My teacher has also suggested its THE place to be for English, but I think thats her just bein nice!

x Nat

Sorry to hijack the thread, but what's preparation for AEA English like? How did unis tend to react to you doing it - do you think it helped your application? Just curious as I so nearly did it!

Well done, Exeter is a good uni, I want to go there for Eng lit next year. You're lucky to get such a good offer as well, the typical offer is AAA-AAB (well that's what it says in the prospectus)

Anyone doing English at UCL next year? Is it any good for English? Whats the accomdation like?

pred. grades
English Lit A
German A
History A
General Studs (what a joke!) A

Cam (rejected)
Edinburgh (ditto, don't know why; may well have gone there)
St. Andrews (AAB)
Warwick (withdrew)
UCL (AAB)
York (AAB)

Haven't really looked at UCL - went for an interview and it was a really pretty college and the people were really nice to me. I expected I'd get into Edinburgh so I didn't look at any other Unis before I applied.
I hated York as it was horribly ugly, Warwick for the same reason; they both felt lifeless too.
St. Andrews is lovely, but its too far away really.
Can't think how anyone could do English at York, I almost killed myself at the open day it was so depressing.
So... ideas on UCL?