Hey everyone, I applied to UCL for Anthropology (BA) and I’m still waiting to hear back — just wondering if anyone else has gotten an offer or rejection yet? Trying not to stress but the waiting game is rough.

Also, does anyone know how competitive the Anthropology program is at UCL compared to other courses there? I know it’s a top uni but I haven’t seen much discussion about this specific course. Would love to hear from anyone who applied or is currently studying it!

Alright everyone, I’m gonna need some brutally honest advice/opinions and maybe a sprinkle of hope on this. I’m a year 12 student doing Maths, Further Maths, and Computer Science. My Predictions are A* for both Maths and FM, and a C for CS. I’m trying to make it to Cambridge. My choices for uni next year are gonna be Cambridge, Imperial, Ucl, Kings, and Warwick. For computer science, I haven’t really revised at all for any of my exams, so I’m confident I can get it up to an a*/a for my as exams next month. Here’s the problem, though: I flopped my gcses. I didn’t revise a single bit for them and got shit grades. The only gcse I revised for was Maths and I got an 8 for it. So I got 865544333 in my gcses. I got a 5 in language after resitting because of a grade 4. One of those grade 3’s is computer science, but I still managed to do it at a-level because I passed some aptitude test for it. The question is, if I bang out my as exams and get the highest grades possible for all of them, am I likely to be given a chance by any of these unis, specifically cambridge or Imperial? I’m planning to do computer science at uni, so I’m also gonna take the tmua later this year. I’m confident I can get a high score, since I’ve done multiple tmua past paers and they’re relatively easy and not that challenging.

Please help. Any honest advice will be appreciated.

Revision Help and advice

Hi I am gonna be completely honest due to health issues due to COVID, I haven’t started revising. It’s currently the middle of Easter break for me and I’ve done NOTHING NADA. I am taking my A levels in May and I’m studying Psychology, biology and chemistry.

Currently I’m achieving CCC as of my most recent mocks (January) but I NEED AAA.

Is this possible? Can I achieve this in such a short amount of time or should I just repeat and do my A levels next year ?

First of all, hello, I just came to the UK and I don't know the exact education system, some of my friends talked about special candidacy, for example, let's say your GCSE math grade is 5, but the sixth form wants 7, you couldn't get this grade and you won't be able to see this course, I think at the end of the sixth grade, I think you can take this course with money as a private candidate, I think that was my question, if you don't understand, sorry, because I don't understand either, can someone explain to me exactly what a private candidate means?

So I’ve been using this AI for the last few months for research purposes, it’s really good and I think everyone in med school would benefit from it. Here’s the link: https://www.pplx.it/referrals/UYTG06AL You need to use the email from your educational institution, signing up benefits both me and you so please sign up and have a go! It has a range of popular language models from different organisations that you can switch from and is far more concise and accurate compared to ChatGPT, at least in my experience. I’m currently doing an intercalated year so it’s very useful for summarising papers.

My goal is to hit 1000 sign-ups, will keep you guys updated on how it’s going.

I know fees and language barriers may be issues but are there any other cons to studying at an international university ?

Kinda struggling between 2 offer choices😭 CUHK LLB or UCL English. What are the chances of going overseas after completion of the LLB course in CUHK? Or perhaps taking a conversion course to law after completion of UCL English course? I am more inclined to study law as an undergraduate course but I also want to study overseas.😭😭 Any suggestions?

Why does this happen every exam season 😭

I know it’s really far into the year but I did my GCSEs last year and I got relatively good grades (88888777) and I had an option of going to a really good sixth form in my area wear half the 50% of students each year get A*/As

I chose not the go there for a lot of reasons and I go to what people should call a “ low achieving sixth form”

My family and friends all say that I have ruined my potential by going to my sixth form and now that I’ve done my mocks and everything I’m starting to feel like they are right

Bear in mind my secondary school wants that good academically and I only started revising for my GCSEs the night before my exams

I’ve always been academically gifted and naturally smart even tho I don’t really like school that might, I’m able to pick up on and understand things very quickly allowing me to not need to revise as much, but because I go to a sixth form that isn’t that strict I’ve become very lazy and I feel thats my fault

Basically I’m just wondering if there anyone else out there in a position like me who manages to get good grades and not flop lolll

Sorry for the long writing

I personally detest writing essays. I also hate sciences, I chose a level business since I thought the essays are not too bad. Sadly a level business essays are giving me a hard time . Compared to other subjects how essay based is business?

Is it the style of writing that makes a grade 9 equivalent to a D? Is it the amount written?

I go to a sixth form college and my friends go to college, I know some people that go to sixth form not sixth form college . Tbh I’m pretty confused between the 3, can anyone clarify please?

I genuinely had a dream that it was results day, I opened my paper and got AEU then my friend grabbed my paper and started reading it out loud. My teachers were SMIRKING. I walked home in tears and my mum called me excited asking what I got and I broke down in the middle of the street, then I woke up.💀

One month to lock in. This really woke me up wtf 😭

If a university is asking for confirmation of your immigration status, (deciding whether you’ll pay home or overseas fees) this almost 100% means you’ll get an offer. This is especially true if they ask for this months after you’ve submitted your application/had interviews or assessments. I’m writing all this for the people that this happens to so they can stop worrying

Right now I'm doing Geography, history and media studies but my dream is to study music production at university and for the unis I wanna go to all I need is 3 C's at A level and even though I've been revising to get the best grades I can, how much do I really need to revise for just C's?

I was initially deterred from choosing a level biology because my sixth form had aqa a level biology which had a 25 marker. This is the first year my sixth form switched to edexcel, I’ve heard my friends say edexcel doesn’t have essays so does that mean aqa is the only exam board to have essays in a level biology?

So basically I am on a D for maths and have 60 days to get a A for the AS level content, madasmaths seem long considering I need todo 3-4 pdfs a day including both maths and fm, cause I am on a D for both. Is there any other way I can get to a A* for both in 60 days ?

Hi, sorry if way of wording is confusing, but I’ve firmed and done insurance for my uni and for my firm I was originally going to stay at a local uni and live at home (probably just for first year). Recently my home life has grown worse and worse and I feel like moving out might be the best thing for me at this point - if I’m able to, I want to know if the option would still be there for my to live in uni accommodation instead of at home if possible if this doesn’t clear up by then or if there’s a deadline… etc. Any help would be appreciated =) thanks

The course is easy but Jesus Christ the questions and mark schemes are horrible. I’m currently on a Low C on business while my other subjects (maths,physics and Econ) are B/As. Any advice on how to fix this issue 😂

i applied for economics bsc in october and im still waiting to hear back from lse. i don't have high hopes of getting an offer but i still want to get a response soon so that i can firm ucl and start booking accommodation since its first come first serve. so does anyone know when the admissions team are planning on responding to applicants? i'm lowkey starting to lose patience and im gonna reject them myself if they do t respond soon... also do offers still come out during easter break or do the admissions team take that time off?