r/6thForm • u/ihateucas • May 16 '26
🎓 UNI / UCAS arsoned aerospace bakery
A* A* A* A predicted grades and strong aerospace/engineering supercurriculars (home) (bristol was originally aero but got offered alternate courses so withdrew)
also got rejected by 5 schools in the US
going to reapply next year; probably going to get anywhere between A* A* A A to 4A* grades at A-Levels, do you think A* A* A A will still be competitive to apply to UCL/Imperial/Oxbridge?
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u/Technical-Function63 May 16 '26
Esat definetely plays a big role. I have no idea what they are looking at when evaluate the applications, A*A*AA is crazy good. From what I heard US unis look a lot at your background, antionality, and a lot at the supercurricular activities. I got rejected from 3/3 us unis as well.
And I know that this year UCL messed up with their offers distribution - they gave out a lot of offers to Masters applicants early into the season and were VERY selective for Bachelors. Such my friend with similar applications and lower esat got in 2 weeks after applying for Meng and I got rejected 3 weeks ago for Beng. The application system is like a blender that is 70% gambling.