Hi,
I'm doing a sandwich course (my 3rd year is a year of work and a 10,000 word research experiment/study - like a dissertation) in Applied Psychology. I'm doing well and am getting 1st's consistently on coursework and exams, and have work experience as a research assistant, which is ideal as I want to go into academia. My sandwich year will also provide work experience obviously.
However I go to a very low-ranking university as I only got 200 ucas points (my course is BPS approved though). This was because I was a victim of a very personal and violent crime during my time at college, and, at only 16 at the time, I kept it to myself and didnt get any help untill 2 years later, and my attendance went from 100% to below 30% very quickly and I ended up with only 2 a levels and one as level.
Unless I have about 280-300 ucas points I will be automatically filtered out of graduate schemes and job applications. Even if I am not, I dont want to explain why my points are so low, nor do I have any proof as I didnt file a police report. and if I did, I wouldn't let anybody see it.
As I have time.. Should I re-take my A levels?? Do new ones??
Looking on google and a few places say that employers dont want someone who took so long to get a levels, or will only take into account the scores you got first time round.
All applications I look at have a box for UCAS points?! How do I get around this?
How has anybody else got around their low points?
PLEASE HELP! thankyou x