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Current students / holders of offers - did you get rejected by other universities?

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Reply 40
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Glam_Girl
MSB
It's funny I should spot this topic since I've just come off Track. I have an offer to read English at Oxford, but I've been rejected by Manchester and UCL, and now I find KCL too. Warwick have, at least, given me an interview.

My head of year emailed Manchester repeatedly for the reasons for my rejection, and eventually got a reply last week saying that the competition was fierce and, basically, I wasn't good enough...



Do you think that if ur accepteed by either Oxford or Cambridge your other universities somehow seem to find out and give you rejections? Or am I just being cynical:smile:
Reply 41
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Glam_Girl
helenkr
I was accepted everywhere I applied to for law: Sheffield: AAB, Queens Belfast: AAB, Exeter: AAB, Sussex: CC and Kent: EE I don't know why they all wanted me :s-smilie: It might have been my LNAT maybe. I'm at Cambridge (Caius) reading law (2nd year)


What was ur LNAT score??
Reply 42
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Llamaaa
15
30 (twas a fluke)
Reply 43
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seanw
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MSB
It's funny I should spot this topic since I've just come off Track. I have an offer to read English at Oxford, but I've been rejected by Manchester and UCL, and now I find KCL too. Warwick have, at least, given me an interview.

My head of year emailed Manchester repeatedly for the reasons for my rejection, and eventually got a reply last week saying that the competition was fierce and, basically, I wasn't good enough...


LOL they send that to everyone who asks for feedback. A girl in my class was rejected by manchester before interview.

"You were a very strong candidate on paper, however, there were others that were stronger."

As if! This girl had 12a*1a, 5a at AS, and an average of 680/900 on the ukcat. I had 4a*6a, 5a at AS, and an average of 720/900 on the ukcat.

So, an extra 40 ukcat marks shows more promise in predicting future medical success than 8a*. I know that they like the ukcat, but come on, it can't be THAT great at predicting suitability.
Reply 44
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jcb914
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Rejected from KCL, the bastards. Not that I cared when I eventually got offers from Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Warwick and Southampton.
The Solitary Reaper
Durham rejected me then changed their mind a few weeks later. :rolleyes:

Can they do that? What if you've already chosen your Insurance and Firm?
Harriellie
Can they do that? What if you've already chosen your Insurance and Firm?

Apparently so - maybe they feared I would spread word that they rejected me for unfair reasons or something, or maybe they hadn't looked at my reference properly... meh.
Reply 47
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jayad
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jcb914
Rejected from KCL, the bastards. Not that I cared when I eventually got offers from Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Warwick and Southampton.
lol. they blates thought you'd reject them so cut to the chase instead.
Rejected from LSE. No idea of specific reasons why, but course was v. v. competitive.
Reply 49
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*pitseleh*
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Glam_Girl
Do you think that if ur accepteed by either Oxford or Cambridge your other universities somehow seem to find out and give you rejections? Or am I just being cynical:smile:


It would be nice to think so, wouldn't it? But alas, no - I think it's highly unlikely that this would happen. I fully accept that it was down to not meeting the criteria for those universities - other people must have been better (some maybe just on paper, but also several in reality). :smile:

I also think it makes a big difference in terms of what you've applied to study. Most of the people who seem to have been rejected applied for things like Medicine, Law and (to a lesser extent) English, all of which are very competitive, therefore causing a lot more ruthlessness in admissions!
Reply 50
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HCD
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lol_wut
i was rejected by st andrews. apparently it was because my PS showed clearly that i was applying for ppe elsewhere, while i was applying for phil + econ there. crappy reason tbh


Was there a focus on Politics in your PS then?
FadeToBlackout
Or my CDD Brookes offer, IIRC... :wink:


I can beat you both. EEE from Southampton. I was tempted to accept that and then just not go to my exams as I'd have Es anyway from getting As at AS level. :biggrin:
Reply 52
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trina
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I got rejected from Bristol and Warwick but thought it was quite funny as I already had an offer from Oxford. I'd only applied to Warwick to fill the last place on my form so I sometimes wonder whether I didn't read the course requirements properly or something.
Reply 53
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two22
Nope, I got into my other uni's.
I'm your bog-standard 'Got rejected from Oxbridge but got in everywhere else' candidate. :smile: St. Andrews, York, Newcastle and Southampton.

I do sometimes feel that I'm the only person on this forum that hasn't applied to Bristol, Durham, Warwick or a London one, though :s-smilie:

None of them offered the course I wanted...
So far I've only been deferred from Georgetown ( I applied early)..but I applied to their most competitive school so I'm not really too fussed.

A lot of times in the states when people apply to backup schools they might end up not getting in...simply because if a mediocre school sees somebody applying with amazing test scores and a great GPA then the school knows chances are the student has got better options for college, and won't actually end up coming.
I got accepted by the other five (York, Warwick, Sheffield, Southampton and Newcastle) with ABB/BBB/BBC offers.
I got rejected by durham...
EE???
That is an awesome offer man!
*ellen marine*
It's not that I think an offer from Oxford or Cambridge should entitle you to offers from other universities, or anything - I'm just curious. :smile:

I've been rejected by Bristol and Warwick so far. My personal take is that I don't particularly 'stand out' on paper; my grades are decent, but they're certainly not flawless. So I suppose I had more chances to 'prove myself' to Oxford - through the admissions test, the essay I submitted, and the interview. That, and I know different universities do have different criteria, and obviously I didn't meet the criteria at Bristol and Warwick.

So, did you get offers from all of your other choices, or did you get some rejections? And if so, do you have any ideas about where you went wrong with those universities?


:eek: how did you get a 1A offer?

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