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Reply 1
Some wants some interview answers ... heh
Because it's the best compromise between actually working (Oxbridge/LSE) and having a laugh for 3 years of your life while going to a top-class university.
Oxbridge = work work work
LSE = 'amazing' social life
UCL = work hard, play harder

and of course it's London - cannot complain about being a 15 minute walk from Oxford Street
Reply 3
holdyourcolour
Because it's the best compromise between actually working (Oxbridge/LSE) and having a laugh for 3 years of your life while going to a top-class university.
Oxbridge = work work work
LSE = 'amazing' social life
UCL = work hard, play harder

and of course it's London - cannot complain about being a 15 minute walk from Oxford Street

hehe thats definetely a good thing!:p:
Reply 4
All the reasons mentioned by holdyourcolour. Also for lots of people applying to Oxbridge UCL is second choice. :smile:
Reply 5
Best place in the country for my course outside of Oxbridge
Reply 6
a_t
Best place in the country for my course outside of Oxbridge

Debatable...
Reply 7
nayiseda
Debatable...

agreed UCL law is top notch.


TBH, for me it was second after ECON &Management at Oxford - they have a lower work for a respectable econ degree. Then UCL because the structure was nice, and the teachers were helpful (over LSE econ where its basically you pay them to self study).

Though workload wise right now I don't know if I could be pushed any further. I have 4 sheets to hand in this week, long, hard, painful sheets. On average it seems to be 3, most of my classmates don't sleep on Wednesdays to finish it off :/.
Reply 8
Best place for my course in relation to my future career plans.

One of the best student to staff ratios

It's probably the only time in my life i'll get to live in central London.

The only uni to interview people for my course other than oxbridge which i think is better.

The staff in my department do some really interesting research in stuff i'm interested in.

UCL doesn't have a campus, most people hate that....i love it. Makes me feel like i'm living in the real world instead of some student bubble.

Most diverse uni i've been too..... get to meet people from all over the world which is fascinating to me

London......need i say more???

I could go on forever.....but i'll stop here
No no.
Everyone go on.

Please? Has anyone studied Politics and east european studies?

I'm thinking of scouring the old threads and PM'ing people.

I don't know what to do.
Reply 10
because ucl is the best!
supported statment. hah :rolleyes:
"So why did you choose UCL?" I asked a UCL student on an open day, and the reply was "because i didnt get into Imperial.":biggrin:
I thought that was funny.

UCL is much more lively, i'd pick it any day over Imperial.
Reply 13
silent ninja
"So why did you choose UCL?" I asked a UCL student on an open day, and the reply was "because i didnt get into Imperial.":biggrin:
I thought that was funny.


That's funny, a friend of mine was in the exact same situation. He applied for Chemical Engineering to both UCL and Imperial, and got offers from both, although he failed to meet the Imperial conditions and is now attending UCL.
However, I don't think the student you mentioned was him, as he was international so I seriously doubt he attended an open day.
r6mile
That's funny, a friend of mine was in the exact same situation. He applied for Chemical Engineering to both UCL and Imperial, and got offers from both, although he failed to meet the Imperial conditions and is now attending UCL.
However, I don't think the student you mentioned was him, as he was international so I seriously doubt he attended an open day.


ha coincidence because it was also a Chem Eng student, but it was a she.
Reply 15
One on one tutorials ;yes;
Reply 16
Dann
One on one tutorials ;yes;


I thought they only did that at oxbridge?

I don't have a tutorial. :frown:

Love your new avatar...you look slightly scary though
Reply 17
silent ninja
"So why did you choose UCL?" I asked a UCL student on an open day, and the reply was "because i didnt get into Imperial.":biggrin:
I thought that was funny.


Oh, I guess the more common answer is I didn't get into Cambridge/ Oxford. - Being a Cambridge reject is true for 80% of UCL science students that I met so far. And it only makes me think Cambridge misses some really great people there. :biggrin:
Reply 18
pure_joy
Oh, I guess the more common answer is I didn't get into Cambridge/ Oxford. - Being a Cambridge reject is true for 80% of UCL science students that I met so far. And it only makes me think Cambridge misses some really great people there. :biggrin:


I haven't meet any cambridge rejects....all the oxbridge rejects i've met have been from oxford and there are a lot.
Reply 19
I guess it depends on the subject, Cambridge is said to be better at Maths, Engineering and Science subjects than Oxford, and almost all my friends are doing science - I have met less than 10 people who didn't apply to Oxbridge and maybe 5 Oxford rejects, the rest, (including myself, btw) are Cambridge rejects. But, leaving the numbers aside, London is much better than any of those maybe-three-clubs-in-the-whole-town places :wink: