Hiii I’m currently in year 13 and I’ve just send my application off for chemical engineering. Context: This is my second time technically in year 13 due to some issues with my mental health where I was hospitalised two months in and then subsequently I missed 3 months of school so I’ve just recently returned to school so technically I’m not resitting anything because I wasn’t even in to do the 2023 a levels. Anyways tldr: second time in year 13 due to mental health issues. So I’m applying to do chemical engineering if that will affect anything. Keeping in mind I struggled to do work experience and boost my grades bc i was stressy depressy so I’m very proud of myself for getting this far regardless. I do bio, chem and maths and my application grades are A*AA with the A* in chem. I’ve applied to:
Imperial (Typical offer: A*A*A but guaranteed interview with contextual)
UCL (Typical offer: AAA but contextual is ABC)
Manchester (Typical offer: AAA contextual: additional consideration)
Loughborough (Typical offer: AAB contextual: might knock one grade down)
Bradford (as a backup): (Typical offer: BBC)
In my personal statement I talked about reading a book, completing a MOOC and doing a lab skills work experience where I related it to the precision and reproducibility required in a degree like chemical engineering. I’ve visited Drax power station and I have done multiple online work experiences also. I mentioned being a blogger for an NGO as an internship over the summer, and raising money for a mental health charity by climbing mount snowden. Is this good enough??