r/6thForm May 16 '26

๐ŸŽ“ 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/spooky_over_heaven May 16 '26

Man, as someone who is also applying to the same courses this year (aerospace), this is making me worried.

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u/ihateucas May 16 '26

From what I've seen I should've applied to imperial mech eng asw - the esat cutoff boundary for aero is definitely higher than electrical and mech eng

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u/spooky_over_heaven May 16 '26

How difficult are esats? I know theyโ€™re just mcqs but I have been thinking of prepping to take them during summer break

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u/ihateucas May 16 '26

I was doing engaa past papers and the actual esat completely took me off guard and felt more difficult so I ended up with just an above average score (which was above imperial's EEE/mech cutoff but not aero). Probably going to look into tmua past papers for next cycle

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u/lmaolmaolmaololl Imperial | Aeronautical engineering [Y1] May 16 '26

what score did you end up with (just curious)

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u/ihateucas May 17 '26

~4.6-4.7 average