I’m applying for English Lit at unis like Cambridge (or Oxford - undecided), UCL, Durham etc.
For my personal statement, should I only be including books written originally in English? A lot of the books I’m passionate about are translated from French, Japanese or Russian.
Basically, does anyone know if including translated works would be an issue or reduce my chances? :)
Sorry if this a silly question but I don’t want to risk it.
Just like many of you reading this summer I have been preparing my UCAS applications as well as preparing for admissions tests. I was hoping to recieve some advice of any of you who may know; I am hoping to apply for physics to begin study next september, knowing this I have also been preparing to apply to Cambridge as well. Cambridge do not offer a Physics course and instead offer Natural Sciences (physical stream), is it an unwise decision to apply to physics at 4 alternative choices & then apply for natural sciences @ Cambridge or will this harm the strength of my application. Originally when I began aiming for Cambridge I was going to apply to mathematics so this was not an issue but since changing my decision I have now run into this roadblock. Any advice or consideration would be massively appreciated :)
Got 3A*A in A Levels with the A in maths.
Considering taking a gap year to apply to Oxford E&M among other courses as my insurance choice is Durham Finance and I missed my firm due to the A in maths.
Guidance regarding those questions as well as general gap year/ reapplication advice would be great thank you
Does anyone know if I have a decent shot at Cambridge with achieved grades A⭐️A⭐️A despite having really bad GCSEs?
Would be applying for a humanities course and would also be taking a 2nd gap year…
Thoughts?
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I'm an incoming applicant to Oxford for PPE looking to Keble College. I am looking to read a multitude of books beyond whats mentioned in my personal statement that specifically relate to the interests and research of the professors at Keble College and in general be prepared for things in interviews.
Are there any current Keble College students studying any form or combination of Philosophy, Politics, and/or Economics that could shine light on how Keble College tutors choose to structure courses, or whether they have specializations or quirks that I could be aware of?
Thank you!
Hello, I am thinking about applying for PPE at oxford but my predicteds are A*AA and gcses are 999988877
from a school averaging a grade 7.
I know people say tara matters the most, but every offer holder I have talked to has had near perfect grades.
Has anybody made it to the interview stage with similar grades/ been carried by the tsa? I think the closer to application I get the more anxious I am.
Thank you
Hello, I’ll apply to study undergraduate math at Cambridge as a mature student, at either Hughes hall or another mature college.
I have A level exams with Math, Further Maths and Computer Science
Also, I did economics, accounting and business studies A levels before, a long while back.
Kindly, don’t judge my subject choices, I am not comfortable sharing the back story.
While I was looking through Math undergraduate page at Cambridge website, there were stats that 92% of applicants took physics and around 50% took chemistry.
I have neither subjects .
It’s also very difficult for me to do A level exam of these subjects as I’ll have to give privately and I won’t have access to any lab equipment which is required for practical components of these subjects.
I don’t know what to do, I am not looking to study physics alongside maths in uni anyways.
Anyone who’s doing math without chemistry or physics in A levels.
I am a year 11 student aiming for Cambridge maths. I sat a level maths this year and got 1 mark off an A*, remarks are off the paper as they are very expensive and my school won’t pay for it, what should I do? Sit a level maths again? Be happy with an A? Will it affect my chances of getting accepted? If I get 3A*s in year 13 will that be enough? (Other than tmua, step etc)*
I have just received my A-Level grade and got an A in maths, A in sociology and B in physics. I had the plan to apply for cambridge mathematics with next years cohort as I needed to self study further Maths. I am doing so already and am pushing for an A*. I still want to Apply to cambridge as I dont see these grades representative of me due to recent situations in my life during the A-Levels. I expected an A* in physics so much so that I am requesting for the script. Anyways, My question is that should I resit Maths or physics, is it worth resitting them alongside TMUA prep and FM self study?
Basically , I did further maths gcse , and I completely flopped it n I get back my results in 6 days but I’m sooo sure that I got a
Like a 2 or 3 , so I deffo failed n tbf I’ve never been good at maths but anyways if I were to apply to Oxford for PPE or law then would I be disadvantaged , for my GCSE’s I’m expecting maths 8 , lit 9, lang 9, bio n chem 9, physics 8, socio 9, food tech 8, french 7? . Anyways would my fm grade make my whole GCSE’s bad. Btw I’m pretty sure I am contextual n my skl is like a bit above average.
I'm a year 12 student and I've recently been reading example personal statements which got students accepted into Imperial/oxbridge or top UK unis and their supercurriculars lowkey sounds more impressive than mine. I've been researching about whats important and whats not in a personal statement for a while now so I'm always hearing that reading beyond the syllabus is important but successful personal statements seem to demonstrate something more. and I'm wondering if it isnt just the reflections but also how 'impressive' the supercurricular is? For example, MOOCs are significantly less impressive than using your school lab to conduct primary research on an unexplored area of biology if you exclude reflections. Maybe theirs seems more impressive in comparison since i'm still on my first draft?
Are there any successful applicants who can confirm/deny this?
Also good luck for results day guys!!
Just the title question, really. I'm wondering because online it says that they are like most other unis and only really properly consider three, and that if you don't get your predicted grades in all four they're more likely to withdraw their offer, so you should just take three. But then why do so many people risk taking four? Is it actually just that they like learning and want to take more subjects or is there a true benefit?
Genuinely just a curious hypothetical.
Did alright at A-level many years ago, BBCC. What if I just resat the same A-Levels in my own time and scored A*A*A*. Seems like it kinda games the system ? Doing A levels slow time as an adult can be a lot easier than juggling four subjects at 18?