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What do you think are the top 5 most competitive courses at the Imperial?

Reply 40

sulpicia

Maths / Physics / Medicine

Big Gap

Aero/Mech Eng / CompSci

Materials / Earth Sciences / Civil Eng

Reply 41

Greatleysteg

19

crshbr

aero is definitely one of them

I'm fairly sure that was in Clearing... :s-smilie:

Reply 42

im so academic

OP

15

Greatleysteg

I'm fairly sure that was in Clearing... :s-smilie:

*chokes* Don't lie... You're joking, right?

Reply 43

sulpicia

Greatleysteg

I'm fairly sure that was in Clearing... :s-smilie:

Not for years!

Reply 44

Ghelani

sulpicia

Maths / Physics / Medicine

Big Gap

Aero/Mech Eng / CompSci

Materials / Earth Sciences / Civil Eng

Hi David.

Reply 45

Greatleysteg

19

Hmm, I'll have to root out my copy of the Independent, but I'm quite sure it was. I recall Imperial being in Clearing for several courses on Results Day, actually...

Reply 46

aggar

1. Medicine

(quite a lot lower)

2. Engineering (mech + chem)

3. Maths

4. Physics

5.Computer Science

Materials

well according to the pdf statistics sheet, aero has a 9.2:1 application to admissions ratio.
highest ratio I can see on that sheet.

Reply 49

mituozo

14

sulpicia

Maths / Physics / Medicine

Big Gap

Aero/Mech Eng / CompSci

Materials / Earth Sciences / Civil Eng

Did you just completely ignore the PDF?

Aeronautics - 9.2 : 1
Mathematics - 7.8 : 1
Life Sciences - 7.5 : 1
Medicine - 7.2 : 1
Computing - 6.7 : 1

Are the 5 hardest courses, statistically, to get on to.

If you do it by the average A level grades people have when they come in, the 5 hardest are:

Maths - 30
Physics - 30
Mech Eng - 30
Chem Eng - 29.9
Medicine - 29.8

Reply 50

Swayum

18

aggar

2. Engineering (mech + chem)

3. Maths

On what basis are you claiming engineering (mechanical and chemical) is more competitive than maths? I can't think of even 1 solid reason.

Reply 51

Slick 'n' Shady

15

Windsprite

get over yourself. sorry we can't all be the epitome of human perfection unlike yourself. :rolleyes:

It was nothing to do with perfection.
You committed a schoolboy error, or girl in your case.

I concur.
Claiming law is one of imperial's competitive course in an EPIC FAIL.

Reply 52

milliondollarcorpse

16

mituozo

...

Beat me to posting the pdf, this post ends the thread.

Reply 53

Katermerang

1

PeanutButterJellyTime

For Chemeng they Said 1000ish people apply for 120 places.

what source is this?

Reply 54

mituozo

14

Katermerang

what source is this?

Just look at the pdf people! It'll give you any stats you need to know! Godd.. It's the official Imperial College admissions stats etc.

Reply 55

PeanutButterJellyTime

1

Katermerang

what source is this?

The Admission tutor. :smile:

Reply 56

Katermerang

1

fair enough, is Chem-eng what you applied for.

Reply 57

aria57

mituozo

Did you just completely ignore the PDF?

Aeronautics - 9.2 : 1
Mathematics - 7.8 : 1
Life Sciences - 7.5 : 1
Medicine - 7.2 : 1
Computing - 6.7 : 1

Are the 5 hardest courses, statistically, to get on to.

If you do it by the average A level grades people have when they come in, the 5 hardest are:

Maths - 30
Physics - 30
Mech Eng - 30
Chem Eng - 29.9
Medicine - 29.8

I don't know why I posted it... Just a few posts after someone claimed, AGAIN, that physics is competitive.

Leave it to medics to think they are amazing geniuses and think that their subject is the hardest to get into...
Medicine IMO is probably one of the safest subjects to get into. My reasoning is as follows:
It doesn't really matter which uni you study medicine in when applying for jobs.
You get 4 choices, and assuming that the application - admission ratio is simmilar for most medic universities, thats 4 / 7.2 chance of getting into a competent course.

For other career tracks, like law or econ, if you aren't oxbridge etc, then you don't really have a shot at the best jobs. Doesn't apply to medicine...

Reply 58

silver_j

mituozo

Did you just completely ignore the PDF?

Aeronautics - 9.2 : 1
Mathematics - 7.8 : 1
Life Sciences - 7.5 : 1
Medicine - 7.2 : 1
Computing - 6.7 : 1

Are the 5 hardest courses, statistically, to get on to.

I don't think this is necessarily true. A much better measure would be an applicants to offers ratio. The aim is to get an offer, not necessarily a place as people may decide to go to another university.

Computing (800 applicants, ~250 offers) would be around 3:1 and if the numbers that I've heard (2000 applicants, ~800 offers) for Mathematics are right, it would be somewhere in the region of 2.5:1, thus proving that computing is more competitive than mathematics.

Reply 59

silver_j

aria57

You get 4 choices, and assuming that the application - admission ratio is simmilar for most medic universities, thats 4 / 7.2 chance of getting into a competent course.

That's absolutely wrong. The probabilities are independent, you can't just add them.

What do you think are the top 5 most competitive courses at the Imperial?

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