University of Glasgow blether thread

Maybe you can shed some light on this burning question:

Glasgow is FULL of AZNs on campus during the day, where do they all disappear to when it comes to nights out?

how early did you have to be in for a seat? I'll be in by half 8 tomorrow so I didn't anticipate a problem but considering it took so long today, I'm not so sure :/

I was in at half 2. Ive done it for a few days and got lucky when someone was leaving that I just happened to be hanging around the area. To get a seat easily I reckon 8am is when you need to be in, I got here at around 8 and there were a few empty seats in the level 4 annexe.

Yes. Glasgow, in a partial bid to appear to be an 'international university', and in a partial bid to to be money-grabbing bastards, frequently rejects home students who wouldn't pay a penny in exchange for international students who pay £11,000 and upwards per year.

It's absolutely disgusting.

Who'd have thought that getting free university education would disadvantage Scottish students because universities whose principals have dollar signs for eye balls don't want anything to do with students who aren't pumping in insane amounts of cash in fees.

I don't think that's right either. I tick all of those boxes, but I wouldn't like to think that if I applied and got into Edinburgh, that my success would be down to acceptance by pity.

An application should come through the universities door with no name, no nationality, no gender, no race and no status of their previous educational establishments.

It should contain their grades, their relevant qualifications and their personal statements.

In the interviews that follow, the interviewers should be banned from discussing anything that isn't directly related to the applicant's grades, their relevant qualifications, the relevant aspects of their academic and professional backgrounds, their personal statement and any technical questions related to the course they've applied for.

Any information other than those things is absolutely irrelevant to university admissions, and its presence would only prejudice the admissions system.

I don't want to be advantaged by being a Scottish student whose parents never had education, who never attended a private/selective/same-sex school. I don't want to be disadvantaged by any of those things either.

I want my admission to university to be based on my achievements and my suitability for the course, which should be ascertained without reference to these things.

Na in all seriousness, I can't seem to do any work if I'm not at that place.

Yellow

Where does it say that?

I tick all those boxes and didn't get in.

I'd be surprised.

£5 for 100 black and white sheets.

Really depends how much you'll be printing

I don't believe you.

I don't believe you.

Oh I'm the same. I can't concentrate when I'm studying at home at all.

Level 3 is pretty dead up until about half 9 but I got in at 10 past 8 today and the upper levels were packed.
One day I'll get one of those pcs right by the window on 10, one day



Yes, get in.

Yeah, it's in their prospectus. However, I honestly don't think you can read too much into it. A girl from my school got accepted, I got rejected. So it's not like they reject all single sex private school English applicants - at the end of the day, my predicted grades/personal statement/application in general just wasn't good enough for them. I'm not saying it was nothing to do with the selection criteria, I just don't think I can blame it entirely on their bias considering there are people who get in despite this - and having met a lot of people at Edinburgh through various societies, and a lot of them coming from very similar backgrounds to me, they clearly don't reject everyone who doesn't tick any of those boxes.

I don't agree with their policy anyway, although I admire their efforts to widen participation in higher education, it's an important goal!

I don't believe you.

Oh yeah, I don't think I fully got rejected for that! 30 people to every place for Eng Lit...bloody nightmare trying to get in!