Rejected from Bournemouth and accepted Middlesex

Whats Middlesex like?

Reply 2

El_Borish

Danithestudent

I just logged onto UCAS and I've been rejected from Bournemouth and accepted unconditionally to Middlesex!?!?!?

WHEN THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?!?!?!?

LOL! unlucky with bournemouth, but the middlesex one kinda makes up for it, i guess?

Reply 3

cobra

By the fact that i never heard of it, i'm guessing rubbish

Reply 4

El_Borish

cobra01977

By the fact that i never heard of it, i'm guessing rubbish

easy there, im sure i've probably never heard of your place either, but i dont make value judgements on other people cos i havent heard of something.

cool it, man

Reply 5

Danithestudent

I just logged onto UCAS and I've been rejected from Bournemouth and accepted unconditionally to Middlesex!?!?!?

WHEN THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?!?!?!?

Why did you get rejected do you think?

Reply 6

OP

Well I didn't have any plans to go to Bournemouth because they take you solely on grades a friends of mine applied with B's in English, Media, Psychology and another friend with Maths, Biology, Spanish with A's and the second friend got in even though it was nothing like she had done before ...she dropped out as well lol
Middlesex is an ex-polytechnic I would rather go there than Bournemouth anyway, my main ambition is to be in London, though London College of Printing is top of my list.

Reply 7

Brown Patrick Bateman

viviki

Whats Middlesex like?

Dani, Middlesex really isn't that well regarded for Journalism & Media related courses... eg in the paper today:

I watched Margaret Hodge explaining on Channel 4 News to a panel why it was such a splendid idea that so many people should go to University. On the panel was the obligatory unemployed graduate, an Asian girl who had just finished a Media and Cultural Studies degree from Middlesex University.

Seven months after graduation, and mired in debt, she was unable to find a job. When asked why this poor girl was unable to pay her debts, the Minister played the race card, arguing that institutionalised discrimination locked her out of employment. That's bollocks. I don't think that girl is unemployed because she's Asian. I think she's unemployed because she's got a first in Media and Cultural Studies from Middlesex University and she doesn't have the skills or the ability to get a job that pays enough to reduce her debts.

Where else u applied ?

Reply 8

OP

Middlesex is where I was born, North London. It's the only place I found that did Journalism and Communication Studies together.

Reply 9

edufly

Is it true ucas only update the online tracker in the evening or something?

Also, how comes I found out I got an offer on the ucas tracker first before by post.
And then vice versa!

Reply 10

OP

When anybody else logged in did it scream PARTY ON? because I'm not sure if that was AOL or not :confused:

Reply 11

cobra01977

By the fact that i never heard of it, i'm guessing rubbish

You must be thick then because i've heard of it. Look at the website, seems like quite a decent uni judging from the website information:

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/

Reply 12

OP

Lol, Jools I'm not really bothered, I don't really want to go to Middlesex nor did I want to go to Bournemouth. But the Unconditional offer at Middlesex has to say that somewhere slightly better is hopefully gonna offer me something...*cough* LCP *cough*. Besides I doubt that girl had any contacts like I do, not to mention work experience at the BBC. Hell she may not even be able to write and got through with sheer luck.
As for Bournemouth. Bournemouth just isn't ready for me :biggrin:

Reply 13

viviki

My flatmate is doing a postgrad in journalism I think they do an undergrad here too but I dont know how good it is. Most of my friends that have gone into journalism have had degrees in other subjects and then gone into it after graduation, so I'm not sure whats good for journalism.

Reply 14

GH

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Danithestudent

When anybody else logged in did it scream PARTY ON? because I'm not sure if that was AOL or not :confused:

What are you smoking?

Reply 15

Jools

Dani, Middlesex really isn't that well regarded for Journalism & Media related courses... eg in the paper today:

I watched Margaret Hodge explaining on Channel 4 News to a panel why it was such a splendid idea that so many people should go to University. On the panel was the obligatory unemployed graduate, an Asian girl who had just finished a Media and Cultural Studies degree from Middlesex University.

Seven months after graduation, and mired in debt, she was unable to find a job. When asked why this poor girl was unable to pay her debts, the Minister played the race card, arguing that institutionalised discrimination locked her out of employment. That's bollocks. I don't think that girl is unemployed because she's Asian. I think she's unemployed because she's got a first in Media and Cultural Studies from Middlesex University and she doesn't have the skills or the ability to get a job that pays enough to reduce her debts.

Where else u applied ?

I thought if you couldn't find a job, you don't need to pay the debts until you do find one and start earning £12 000 salary or more.

Reply 16

cobra

A Grade Student

You must be thick then because i've heard of it. Look at the website, seems like quite a decent uni judging from the website information:

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/

I've heard of the place just not the uni, maybe its just cos i'm arrogant and have only looked at top academic unis like durham and warwick

viviki

so I'm not sure whats good for journalism.

Dani will succeed in journalism whatever - if you read her PS you would understand why - speaking of which now that the deadline's past why not post it onsite for a little while (and back up my blind faith with some evidence :wink:

)

Reply 18

cobra01977

I've heard of the place just not the uni, maybe its just cos i'm arrogant and have only looked at top academic unis like durham and warwick

Hopefully you will get rejected :tongue:

Reply 19

viviki