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Chemical engineering supercurriculars for Imperial College

Hi all,

I am in year 12 and would like to study chemical engineering, and am targeting imperial college london. Are there any supercurriculars that I should do for this course? In the summer, I was thinking about doing some engineering courses developed by MIT. Other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Reply 1

Original post by briia
Hi all,
I am in year 12 and would like to study chemical engineering, and am targeting imperial college london. Are there any supercurriculars that I should do for this course? In the summer, I was thinking about doing some engineering courses developed by MIT. Other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

heyy i’m also in yr 12 wanting to study chem eng at imperial, lmkk if u find any super curriculars bc i can’t find anything…

Reply 2

Hi,
I'm in yr 13 and have received offers to study chem eng at Imperial as well as Cambridge, the main supercurriculars I focused on were these 2 chemical engineering MOOCs (massive online open courses) which i completed through FutureLearn in the summer before applying, so those MIT engineering courses do sound very good especially if its directly linked to chem eng, though I had also completed the senior maths, physics and chemistry challenges as well as other general stem related things such as a cambridge physics residential and a stem potential course, but it was the MOOCs which I focused on most since that's what was relevant to chemical engineering, (the other non chem eng stem supercurriculars only got about one sentence each in my statement)
So basically I recommend just doing what you can find, doesn't need to be much, but just a couple things directly related to chemical engineering which you can really go into depth about and then the rest of the application like any general stem activities will just support that.
Because Imperial also uses the ESAT, I think that's just as important if not more for your application rather than having a perfect statement with tons of supercurriculars.
Hope this helps :smile:

Reply 3

Original post by sophitay
Hi,
I'm in yr 13 and have received offers to study chem eng at Imperial as well as Cambridge, the main supercurriculars I focused on were these 2 chemical engineering MOOCs (massive online open courses) which i completed through FutureLearn in the summer before applying, so those MIT engineering courses do sound very good especially if its directly linked to chem eng, though I had also completed the senior maths, physics and chemistry challenges as well as other general stem related things such as a cambridge physics residential and a stem potential course, but it was the MOOCs which I focused on most since that's what was relevant to chemical engineering, (the other non chem eng stem supercurriculars only got about one sentence each in my statement)
So basically I recommend just doing what you can find, doesn't need to be much, but just a couple things directly related to chemical engineering which you can really go into depth about and then the rest of the application like any general stem activities will just support that.
Because Imperial also uses the ESAT, I think that's just as important if not more for your application rather than having a perfect statement with tons of supercurriculars.
Hope this helps :smile:
Hii! so does imperial offer Bsc Chemical engineering course or did u apply for the masters? also so r u sayinf that we dont need physical experiences in the field and we can just do chem eng courses online??

Reply 4

Original post by kemsss
Hii! so does imperial offer Bsc Chemical engineering course or did u apply for the masters? also so r u sayinf that we dont need physical experiences in the field and we can just do chem eng courses online??

I'm pretty sure they only offer the masters which is what I applied for, and I mean if you can get physical experiences then that would be great, but if not because it can be very hard then yeah it is completely fine to just do online courses and get experience that way, like that's all I did and it is still showing ur interest and gaining knowledge and I still got in with no physical experience

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