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UCAS Choices

Hi, I need to pick a 5th choice for my UCAS app for Computer Science (or Cyber Security) and I can't decide. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Unfortunately I don't have A-Level maths, I have A*BBE at A-Level (Digital Tech, Computer Science, History, Welsh Bacc). I'm a contextual student as well.

I'd appreciate any suggestions

Reply 1

alestalagie

Forgot to add but my current choices are:

Cardiff, Nottingham, QMUL & Warwick (Cyber Security)

Reply 2

DerDracologe

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Are these achieved grades? If not, what grades do your current choices ask for?

Reply 3

alestalagie

Original post

by DerDracologe

Are these achieved grades? If not, what grades do your current choices ask for?

Yeah, they're achieved grades. I'll put what the Universities want below

Cardiff: ABB-BBC (in my case this will probably be BBB since I'm contextual)
Nottingham: A*AB (maybe AAB due to contextual I'm not certain since the website is a bit wordy)
QMUL: ABB
Warwick: AAB

(edited 2 months ago)

Reply 4

McGinger

Suggestions - the last two as potential Insurance choices.
Computer Science (Cybersecurity) BSc (Hons) | Brunel University of London - ABB
Cybersecurity | Aston University BBB
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science for Cyber Security at Oxford Brookes University BBC

Reply 5

DerDracologe

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Original post

by alestalagie

Yeah, they're achieved grades. I'll put what the Universities want below
Cardiff: ABB-BBC (in my case this will probably be BBB since I'm contextual)
Nottingham: A*AB (maybe AAB due to contextual I'm not certain since the website is a bit wordy)
QMUL: ABB
Warwick: AAB

Id look for another one at or below your predicteds, unifrog is a great tool for this if you have access for this or uniguide is another one. I think ucas has a tool to find courses by grades too which will obviously be up to date.
Nottingham and Warwick may not give you an offer as your grades are below asking but if you want to give it a shot its worth it, having another choice at or below your achieved grades will give you more options is all 🙂

Reply 6

alestalagie

Thank you both for your help

I think I'll still try for Warwick and Nottingham, Warwick I'm pretty optimistic for since UCAS says that the most common admitted grades are ABB, so fingers crossed I hopefully get an offer back. Nottingham is a far shot so I'll just have to see how that goes.

Thank you for your help again I appreciate it