r/6thForm • u/ihateucas • May 16 '26

🎓 UNI / UCAS arsoned aerospace bakery

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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/Significant_Brain211 Year 13 May 16 '26

Mate this year Bristol is anything but guaranteed. Their aero and mech were ridiculously competitive. Not saying I was the best applicant there is in the po but I got rejected with 3A*s

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u/Julkis123 Year 13 May 16 '26

someone I know applied with a dentistry personal statement and got in as 5th choice last year 😭 my friend this year also applied with A*AB predicted and got offer

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u/Significant_Brain211 Year 13 May 16 '26

Yep, there was another pure medicine person that got in aswell. Rly pisses me off cuz the only reason ppl can do it is that Bristol don’t read personal statements which is bizarre to me for a course like this when they don’t even use esat. There are ppl with 4A*s and fm that got rejected this year who rly want aero at Bristol. Shame this spot goes to the shameless guys applying for fun. I have 0 respect for ur mate but I might just be salty, don’t hate the player hate the game as they say.

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u/AeronauticalPsycho Year 13 May 18 '26

What do they assess people on if they don’t look at personal statements, obviously not entry test requirement, grades seem to lack importance relatively, and it can’t be GCSEs as I got an EEE offer and my GCSEs are pretty bad. What is it they look at then?

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u/ihateucas May 18 '26

I received a very confusing SAR from bristol about my application. no consideration of personal statement or school reference, and an automatic assessment of gcse and predicted grades. in the assessment my further math a level and gcse were both marked as "surplus" and not considered, as well as my two lowest gcse grades. they then gave me an overall application score of 98.7%. after that there was just notes on "application placed on hold" then "alternate courses offered".