Exeter vs UEA

Exeter of course!! no question about it. UEA is s**t, im soz but it is! simply looking at the two entry requirements you can see that exeter expects more quality applicants and therefore more respect from employers as a good uni. Plus, beautiful settings. Also the broadsheet league tables places Exeter much higher than UEA

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clare_m

simply looking at the two entry requirements you can see that exeter expects more quality applicants and therefore more respect from employers as a good uni. Plus, beautiful settings. Also the broadsheet league tables places Exeter much higher than UEA

LOL at those arguments. :rolleyes:

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whats wrong with the arguments? if i gotta be in s**t loads of debt, i want a bloudy good degree at the end that people will take notice of. Also, i come from the isle of wight and would miss seagull s**t, the smell of fresh manure in the summer and the lack of "green-ness" if i lived somwhere that wasnt pretty similar

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i was selling the uni!! what's up with that!! hee hee.

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clare_m

whats wrong with the arguments?

I go step-by-step to demonstrate why they fall down....

clare_m

simply looking at the two entry requirements

For what course?!? Do uni's always ask for what they will accept?!? :confused:

clare_m

exeter expects more quality applicants

Not even going to bother with that one. :rolleyes:

clare_m

therefore more respect from employers as a good uni

Your right, I'm certain that employers have devised a complete tables of thier favorites and rigidly stick to this, regardless how how great / god-awful the candidate is. :biggrin:

Also they endlessly keep track of the requirements for each course and can recite the modules they cover off the tops of thier heads. :rolleyes:

clare_m

Also the broadsheet league tables places Exeter much higher than UEA

I'd rather listen to Gnostic tell me that UCL is the worst university in the UK and that they are all godless scum than listen to those tables. :smile:

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clare_m

i was selling the uni!! what's up with that!! hee hee.

If you want to sell Exeter then you talk about.....

-Social science courses
-New medical school
-IT based learning for all programme (not really sure how good it is though)
-LOCATION!!!!

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Pencil

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worried_mess

Who wins!

Neither of them. Go to Essex. :rolleyes:

Reply 10

clare_m

UEA is s**t

Based on what exactly? It may not be Oxford or Cambridge but that doesn't make it s**t! It's a good uni, and some courses want AAB so that kind of ruins your argument. Do you even know anything about it?

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Pencil

Neither of them. Go to Essex. :rolleyes:

Were all getting through some plugging today!!! :biggrin:

Reply 12

Edinburgh! - Prettier than both combined, have the festival, relaxed licensing laws and an extra year to take advantage of them!!! :biggrin:

Reply 13

It's not fair, I want to play this game!

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~Sam~

It's not fair, I want to play this game!

Pick a uni and plug away!!! you don't actually have to go there, I probably won't get into Edinburgh but I'm still plugging it for the fun of it (also to keep myself posting and not reading these books)!!! :biggrin:

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'simply looking at the two entry requirements you can see that exeter expects more quality applicants'

if u look at average entry requirement that applicants need to have from A-levels (or equilavent) to get into exeter and compare them with UEA ( u can see this on the broadsheet tables - however s**t they are, some of the figures are comparable) you can see that exeter wants applicants who have better grades. This means that the standard of applicants is higher. I dont know how that argument is wrong. the thread is a GENERAL comparison therefore i went on average figures.

'and therefore more respect from employers as a good uni'

I didnt say that employers look at figures or tables or modules or whatever other s**t abuse you threw at me. But again i went on AVERAGE figures that the employement figures are better for exeter than UEA. This could be due to a link between the percentage of the type of degree( 1st, 2nds, etc) that exeter produces compared to UEA

Plus, beautiful settings.

-self explanatory, but im sure you'll tear it apart

Also the broadsheet league tables places Exeter much higher than UEA

Again, this is GENERAL comparison thread therefore you go by personal opinions and average figures compared. I personally dont want to do any calculations, so i let the broadsheets do it for me. In a simple form therefore, as s**t as they may be, when comparing UEA and Exeter, Exeter is considered higher than UEA. Also, as you say, two of them place UEA atleast 10 places lower. This is actually quite a lot when you consider how many uni's/colleges are listed in the tables

I CANT BELIEVE IM HAVING TO EXPLAIN MYSELF, IT WAS A F**KING PASSING COMMENT!! lol :tongue:

Reply 16

Leekey

Pick a uni and plug away!!! you don't actually have to go there, I probably won't get into Edinburgh but I'm still plugging it for the fun of it (also to keep myself posting and not reading these books)!!! :biggrin:

I could try plugging Sheffield. I've never actually been there but it sounds really good from the prospectus! I will do it later as I have to go to work now though!

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mobbdeeprob

~Sam~

Based on what exactly? It may not be Oxford or Cambridge but that doesn't make it s**t! It's a good uni, and some courses want AAB so that kind of ruins your argument. Do you even know anything about it?

True, I would add that the grade requirement doesn't necessarily indicate which is the 'better' (to use a sweeping generalisation, as I can't be arsed to elaborate on anything today) course. I'd rather do American Law at UEA than Exeter (largely because the latter doesn't offer it), similarly, I'd much prefer to study English Lit at UEA than Exeter (despite it only requiring ABB at UEA, compared to AAB at Exeter).

UEA has some fantastic departments, and is unfortunate in having such a poor 'on the street' reputation, compared to somewhere like Warwick - which actually shares several things in common with the UEA.

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mobbdeeprob

True, I would add that the grade requirement doesn't necessarily indicate which is the 'better' (to use a sweeping generalisation, as I can't be arsed to elaborate on anything today) course. I'd rather do American Law at UEA than Exeter (largely because the latter doesn't offer it), similarly, I'd much prefer to study English Lit at UEA than Exeter (despite it only requiring ABB at UEA, compared to AAB at Exeter).

UEA has some fantastic departments, and is unfortunate in having such a poor 'on the street' reputation, compared to somewhere like Warwick - which actually shares several things in common with the UEA.

I really want to study American and Eng lit at UEA because the course sounds so interesting! (more so than Exeter although I am going to apply there too)

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