What’s with the KCL hate?

I see *a lot * of people saying kcl is not elite don’t go there etc why. KCL computer science is awful stuff like that, why? The stats show the prospects are quite good there

Another thing I’m confused about is why people rave on about Bristol for computer science it’s got low satisfaction rates and the prospects while good are still lower than kcl, however employment after graduating is *significantly* lower than kcl

I applied St andrews Kcl and Bristol and I ordered them to what I think is best to worse.

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user488949439

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Original post by Disposable_user

I see *a lot * of people saying kcl is not elite don’t go there etc why. KCL computer science is awful stuff like that, why? The stats show the prospects are quite good there

Another thing I’m confused about is why people rave on about Bristol for computer science it’s got low satisfaction rates and the prospects while good are still lower than kcl, however employment after graduating is *significantly* lower than kcl

I applied St andrews Kcl and Bristol and I ordered them to what I think is best to worse.

I dont there is a Kings hate. However Kings rankings over many years have been fairly low in all the UK ranking tables around 20th most years. Last year Kings had particular problems with admissions in particular CS and Economics. There were thousands of students who werent advised whether they were accepted by the deadline and ucas entered rejections for all due to this.

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DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

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Original post by Disposable_user

I see *a lot * of people saying kcl is not elite don’t go there etc why. KCL computer science is awful stuff like that, why? The stats show the prospects are quite good there

Another thing I’m confused about is why people rave on about Bristol for computer science it’s got low satisfaction rates and the prospects while good are still lower than kcl, however employment after graduating is *significantly* lower than kcl

I applied St andrews Kcl and Bristol and I ordered them to what I think is best to worse.

I don't know why the particular people you're talking about "hate" KCL, but some of it might because of the way they handled some applicants last year.

Some applicants (I don't now how many) waited and waited to hear back. Eventually, the decision deadline was hit (the equivalent of May 18th this year) and KCL still hadn't informed UCAS of their decisions (despite constantly telling applicants to wait and that decisions would be available shortly). Given the deadline, UCAS had no choice but to apply the "rejected by default" status to these applicants. It was a shocking way to behave.

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Disposable_user

OP

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Original post by DataVenia

I don't know why the particular people you're talking about "hate" KCL, but some of it might because of the way they handled some applicants last year.

Some applicants (I don't now how many) waited and waited to hear back. Eventually, the decision deadline was hit (the equivalent of May 18th this year) and KCL still hadn't informed UCAS of their decisions (despite constantly telling applicants to wait and that decisions would be available shortly). Given the deadline, UCAS had no choice but to apply the "rejected by default" status to these applicants. It was a shocking way to behave.

I have heard about that incident but certain people seem to think kings is quite bad compared to rest of my choices, without fail they always tell me to Bristol is way better than kings, they say kings is just ok at best and stuff at first I thought I was stem students being super snobby but I saw a short video which reviewed Russel groups and ordered them. Kings was high but they said that the academics wasn’t great but the only reason why its as high as it is is because of its medicine department and because it’s is London.

I thought it went Kings was after the likes of UCL and Warwick but apparently not?

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What’s with the KCL hate?

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