Economics Applicants 2011 Offer Thread

Aww dw where else have u applied?

Here's my situation:

Cambridge (Trinity College) - offer (A*AA)
Durham - offer (AAA)
Warwick - still waiting
Nottingham - offer (AAA or AABB)
Birmingham - offer (AAB)

Obviously Cambridge is going to be my firm choice but I'm struggling to decide on an insurance choice. Some people have said that I should choose Birmingham on the basis that a lot of graduates get their first job in the city where they went to uni, and it would probably be easier to get a good job in Birmingham than in Nottingham or Durham after graduating, since it's a much bigger city. I'm not thoroughly convinced by that argument though, and in any case, I can't help thinking that Durham and Nottingham are better universities than Birmingham for economics. Any thoughts?

That's amazing, congrats! I'd go for Notts, only because so many people have been rejected by them this year (including me), so it's pretty great to have got in. Just out of interest, what are you predicted?

Well, so far I have been rejected by UCL, Warwick and Notts.. But got an offer of AAB for Birmingham, so probably end up there! Haven't heard from Bath yet.. Seems a bit late to get an offer now though, haha. How do your offers/rejections stand so far?

Got rejected from UCL, Bath and nottigham. Offer from southampton and Manchester so have to decide among them but its very hard seeing as there rankings are pretty similar so gona be down to student life. And good luck on Bath

Well done!
That's amazinggg!

Out of interest what were your GCSE grades?

cambridge - rejection
durham - ...
bristol - AAA
bath - A*AA in eco and maths
notts - rejection
predicted 5 A*s.
any home students waiting to hear from durham still?

There seems to be something odd about Nottingham this year in that they're rejcting really great candidates and giving offers to pretty good candidates.
I'm not saying I was a great candidate by the way, I thought I was in the 'pretty good' section, still got rejected. Do you reckon they may have suspected you were applying to an Oxbrdige uni?
Well done on your Bath offer anyway

Well, your thinking on the rise of tuition fees is still flawed, so yeah...

How's that relevant to my comment you just quoted?

Here's my situation:

Cambridge (Trinity College) - offer (A*AA)
Durham - offer (AAA)
Warwick - still waiting
Nottingham - offer (AAA or AABB)
Birmingham - offer (AAB)

Obviously Cambridge is going to be my firm choice but I'm struggling to decide on an insurance choice. Some people have said that I should choose Birmingham on the basis that a lot of graduates get their first job in the city where they went to uni, and it would probably be easier to get a good job in Birmingham than in Nottingham or Durham after graduating, since it's a much bigger city. I'm not thoroughly convinced by that argument though, and in any case, I can't help thinking that Durham and Nottingham are better universities than Birmingham for economics. Any thoughts?

There seems to be something odd about Nottingham this year in that they're rejcting really great candidates and giving offers to pretty good candidates.
I'm not saying I was a great candidate by the way, I thought I was in the 'pretty good' section, still got rejected. Do you reckon they may have suspected you were applying to an Oxbrdige uni?
Well done on your Bath offer anyway

Very true, I thought once we get into university money would no longer be an object which holds back some from competing with those with an unfair advantage but as we have clearly seen again, International student who are going to pay more get in some of which have an academic record which UCAS does not recognise. Just proves that whoever says money is not an object is a FOOL!

Edinburgh rejection