Always wanted to get in UCL - but did badly in my exams

I always wanted an Aston Martin but I could not afford one. Maybe if I work hard enough some day I may be able to afford one.

I grew up wanting to be an art student. That's what my family wanted and was what I was good at. Until upper secondary, where I switched art to chemistry. I took an interest in science.

I want to get in UCL so badly. I'm an international student from Asia, and I loved london the moment I went there.

However for my IGCSEs I got 1 A*, 6A and 3Bs. It wasn't the best. I thought i'll do better for IB.

Yet my literature grades were never great - I've never been good at understanding emotions and details.

I did real bad for my final exams this year (I'm in Year 12 right now and this goes greatly towards my predicted grade). Getting lower than my mid year averages.

I'm currently getting something along the guidelines :
Chinese A1 SL - 5
Mathematics SL - 5/6
Economics SL - 6

English A2 HL - 5
Chemistry HL - 6
Biology HL - 6

AND it might even be lower since I haven't gotten all my fianl exams back yet and they are bad. I'm being pretty optimistic with the grade I listed above.

And I feel real bad now.
Is there still a chance of me getting into UCL?
What are some ways that improves my chances in getting in it?

Maybe you could ask your college or school to raise your rpedicted grades because you feel they don't represent how hard you work? :-/

Depends what subject you want to do?

I'll probably try.
I did work erally hard towards this...
I'm not sure if the school will actually raise it though.

You sound like a really hard working person. I hope you do achieve your ambitions. By the sound of it, you feelnlike you can do better so I think you definitely are good enough, it's just applying yourself to the exams.

I'm doing the IB next year and am looking into the UCL or ICL area.

Thank you =)
I did try really hard for this exam
but I didn't do as well as my mid years and normal exams...
It's worth 40% of my grade. =(

Good Luck to you!!
ICL's too far away from me :P
Sure you'll do great.

Some subjects at UCL only ask for 34 points, which I'm sure you could get predicted for you if you think you've underperformed? I don't know what the requirements are like for the chemistry based subjects, but have you ever considered a return to art? Fine art only asks for 34 points.

There's a chance, but I wouldn't have thought it was very likely. The scores you listed up there barely scrape into the range for entry requirements for Chemistry (34-38, with 16-18 points at HL), and aren't even close the those required for biomed (36-38, with 17-18 points at HL). And you say you're being optimistic with the grades listed here.

Sometimes you just have to accept you're not good enough,even if you did work hard. It's sad, but UCL have no reason to take on people just because they really want to go there, when they have better candidates who probably also want to go.

They're both in London so pretty much equal distance from me. Do you live in the UK?

Thanks =)
Yep I understand what you're talking about.
It's sad.
I can still be optmistic and try harder and aim for the chemistry department though. I think chemistry is lowered to 32 now. I don't know if that's true (It says so on UCAS and their hand booklet)

Will it be harder for me as an international student though? (like less preference?)

There's a chance, but I wouldn't have thought it was very likely. The scores you listed up there barely scrape into the range for entry requirements for Chemistry (34-38, with 16-18 points at HL), and aren't even close the those required for biomed (36-38, with 17-18 points at HL). And you say you're being optimistic with the grades listed here.

Sometimes you just have to accept you're not good enough,even if you did work hard. It's sad, but UCL have no reason to take on people just because they really want to go there, when they have better candidates who probably also want to go.

WTH are you on about? His low estimate is 33 and every average student should be getting 2 extra points or else they're seriously not working hard enough. That makes 35 low estimate.

I'm being pretty optimistic with the grade I listed above.