Y13 Edition - Creating the Future of our Dreams - Study23 GYG

I think I saw somewhere that Oxbridge don't care about SJT (best to check with someone more qualified than me lol) so I don't think the B2 would disadvantage you. Also spoke to admissions at Jesus a while back and they said they rank for interview for UCAT and GCSEs, in which you are in the top deciles for both. The preliminary UCAT results came out today and I think 9th decile is about 2980 atm, probably will go down, but that means your score is top 10% and honestly I'd be surprised if they were more selective than that.
Idk about Cardiff, I don't think so cause I kind of want to get out of Wales but I know it's a safer option for Welsh applicants so maybe I should put it as fourth? Bristol looks really good but I don't think it's my type of city

It's also soooo expensive to live there btw - I was looking into it for civil engineering and the cost is prohibitive and the student satisfaction and just like happiness is low af

Is that for Bristol?

Yup

Dang ☹️

Honestly I don't even know haha. Definitely Cambridge for my top choice. I was initially thinking QUB or Edinburgh but I don't know if I want to travel that far. I'm more set on the ones I don't want to go to (like London unis mainly). How about you?

Sorry haha life has been hectic, forgot to update!
Had my UCAT last week which went very well so happy about that, but school has just been quite tiring and hectic if I'm honest. Also on the day of the UCAT they set two tests for next week which I didn't know about until someone told me today ☹️
How's y12?

A 3200 Band 1, shocked but happy. Yeah how come it's only been a few weeks and I'm already needing a holiday? 😆

OMG CONGRATS so proud for you 😭❤️

Also congratulations on completing the ucat!

as someone who lives in NI, QUB is great and renting in the city isn't that bad, we'd definitely be cheaper than most parts of the country (tuition fees are capped at around £5000? Or just below that)
So NI is always a good option to consider (says the person not applying to any NI universities at all)

Haha that's the same situation for me as a Welsh person, but thanks for letting me know! I'll have to look more into it

I think I need to own up to ghosting you all for a while, that was not very GYG-blogger of me, apologies.
Life is crazy (as I have said in like every other post haha). I think I have been in desperate need of a break since May, and still haven't had one. I'm stressing now over the personal statement and uni applications. I don't know where I want to apply, and I can't get to any open days. Does anyone know of any online open days (not like the virtual campus tours)? I am stressing 😆
I also need to cut my personal statement in half ☹️ but I can't find ways to shorten it without losing reflection/analysis and making it too surface level?
In other news I did my school's coffee macmillan morning earlier this week which was nice. Also had two tests for biology. One was eh since after my UCAT I was ill for a solid week (think I shrugged it off and then after the exam it hit soooo badly), and the other was ok. But regardless of how they turn out my teacher has said I'll be predicted an A* in Bio so I'm over the moon. Just need every other subject to give me my predicteds and references now (slow school if you can't tell)
How is life going everyone? I have been silently reading GYGs I promise just not very active on my own one
Song of the day ~ I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls
Productivity ~ 7/10
Today:
Goodbye for now, remind me to update you guys

Welcome back! Im so happy that you got an A* predicted well done! also i really hope you get a break soon too <3

I think I need to own up to ghosting you all for a while, that was not very GYG-blogger of me, apologies.
Life is crazy (as I have said in like every other post haha). I think I have been in desperate need of a break since May, and still haven't had one. I'm stressing now over the personal statement and uni applications. I don't know where I want to apply, and I can't get to any open days. Does anyone know of any online open days (not like the virtual campus tours)? I am stressing 😆
I also need to cut my personal statement in half ☹️ but I can't find ways to shorten it without losing reflection/analysis and making it too surface level?
In other news I did my school's coffee macmillan morning earlier this week which was nice. Also had two tests for biology. One was eh since after my UCAT I was ill for a solid week (think I shrugged it off and then after the exam it hit soooo badly), and the other was ok. But regardless of how they turn out my teacher has said I'll be predicted an A* in Bio so I'm over the moon. Just need every other subject to give me my predicteds and references now (slow school if you can't tell)
How is life going everyone? I have been silently reading GYGs I promise just not very active on my own one
Song of the day ~ I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls
Productivity ~ 7/10
Today:
Goodbye for now, remind me to update you guys

Cutting your personal statement is always a nightmare man genuinely
But what I'd do is see if you could shorten any words down--simplifying language does not mean simplifying analysis--its character count that matters after all

Yeah I think it’s gonna have to come down to that. Sad thing is some words like ‘medicine’ ‘healthcare’ ‘work experience’ are long but not much can change too unless it’s an equally long word 😭 Ah well will have to push through

Yup

Yeah I read that student satisfaction was really low so that put me off :/