Imperial College Chemical Engineering Applicants 2023

Thanks for starting this thread. I decided early that I did not want to apply to Cambridge as I have friends at Imperial, so it was always 1st choice for me. So I sent my application off Mid - November. My predicted grades are A* A* A* A* . I applied to English Universities based on the World QS rankings for Chem Eng. So applied to Imperial, UCL, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. Already have offers from Birmingham and Leeds.
Have an interview at Imperial mid-Jan.

heyo this might get taken down or moved to another thread since I'm not an official volunteer but I decided to made this after a person in the official Imperial applicants thread asked if it was possible to create a separate thread for the Chem Eng applicants! us fellow chem eng aspirants can get to know each other, discuss interview dates and share resources. I'm gonna start first, I applied 2 days before the october deadline with A1A1A predictions in Advanced Highers and got an interview invite on 9th December!

edit: it was @tomiekox 's idea! thank you @tomiekox

How did your interview go? I had mine on the 7th of December

sorry i meant that i received the email on 9th december but the interview's mid january. Do you have any tips / online resources for the interview? and how was the carbon capture pilot plant, i heard that's their most prized possession

sorry i meant that i received the email on 9th december but the interview's mid january. Do you have any tips / online resources for the interview? and how was the carbon capture pilot plant, i heard that's their most prized possession

wow you have amazing predicteds, how are you preparing for the interview? or are you just gonna wing it haha

Tbh it entirely depends on the interviewer, We got shown the pilot plant which was really cool, but I was asked nothing about it. My question were the basic why imperial why chem eng and then he asked me about a group project I was a apart of and then it was two chem question on rate and the haber process and a maths question. At the end I thought it went horribly because the maths question he asked was something we hadn’t learnt in school so I thought I was deffo rejected but I just got the offer two days ago. So any tips I can give is just the basic don’t stress and go in their not seeing it as a interview, but as an academic conversation.
On the email they should tell you who is interviewing so do some research behind them and find out what they specialise in so you can ask questions about it. And overall if you felt like it went bad dw, cause at the end of the day ur opinion on the interview doesn’t matter, its how they think it went .

Thanks. Just usual Maths and Chem prep - we have final mock exams just before the interview.
How are you preparing?

Hi all,

I just got an email with an Offer for Chem Eng, my interview was on 11th Jan

Good luck to everyone

Congrats!! I have my interview in a week, I've been preparing but ultimately I'm a little lost because I didn't even expect to get an interview. I've just been researching some relevant topics to talk about, brushing up on what I spoke about in my personal statement, as well as revision on some key topics that I've seen people mention come up. I'm a pretty nervous person, so I'm terrified I will forget everything when I am there. If you have any tips that would be greatly appreciated, I'm at a very small sixth form and the only advice I have had from my tutor is to practice keeping eye contact... smh.

did my interview yesterday, turns out all of my revision time spent on rates and bonding were wasted since I got asked a bunch of very obscure biochemical questions which I messed up. I did however answer the maths question right (pretty much everybody else aced the maths question) and i suppose I did answer the 'why chem eng and which subfield you want to specialise in' confidently. Is it bad that I have the enthusiasm and general knowledge of chemistry but suck at remembering specific things? heck I even forgot what alkali metal were. The interviewer was very stoic throughout the interview until his face

I assume you’re at the interview tomorrow? Maybe I’ll see you!! Do you have any ideas of what you’re going to wear. I know they say to wear whatever is comfortable, but I’ve seen people saying to wear suits etc, and I don’t own a suit… I don’t want them to think I don’t care about the interview.

I had my interview in December and from what I observed, what you wear honestly isn't a significant issue. In my batch of interviewees, half the people wore suits and the other half wore casual outfits. Personally, I just rocked up with a pair of jeans and a shirt and still got an offer. They care more about the creativity of your brain rather than the creativity of your fashion sense ( Cambridge is a whole other situation whereby if you don't come in a suit, you're seen as a madman). Mind you, there is also a tour of the campus and the pilot plant, which requires extensive walking and stair climbing, so it is in your best interest to wear something that doesn't limit ur movements