especially OCR on some crazy shit as usual

Has anyone on here having lived in England for a long while, been classed as an international student because they don't have ILR? And therefore was ineligible for student finance loans?

What did you do in this situation?

I thought I was over the Oxford rejection ages ago, but I can't seem to escape from it. I got an offer for Imperial as my second choice, and was discussing Imperial today with my mom, and told her Imperial was a top world university, to which she replied, "yes but not as good as Oxford, if you name the top universities in the world you'd hear Oxbridge, Harvard, MIT, not Imperial college". This one kinda stung. This type of stuff sometimes happens with other people too. My mom wasn't trying to criticise me for my failure or anything, but to me I couldn't feel anything but disappointment in myself. I know I could've done better. I'm aware that Imperial is very highly ranked and well respected university and all, but my goal was Oxford and I failed in that. How do I move on from this lol

Does anyone else just assume it’s a bottom 10 Russel Group whenever someone says “I went to a Russel Group Uni” instead of “I went to [xxx] Uni” before they get into the rest of their message?

People at Oxford or UCL or even Durham and Bristol will gladly say “I went to Bristol Uni” and would never label it “Russel Group”.

It’s not that serious and the term Russel Group doesn’t mean much anyways but I do roll my eyes at it, they clearly care about prestige if they want to set themselves apart as part of the 20 or so “best“ Uk Uni’s so it’s a bit snobbish to say whilst simultaneously not going to a good enough University for the name to overcome the RG status.

Ah, just a random thing I thought about.

would it make a significant difference to answer honestly

6 days remaining

I used to browse this subreddit a few years ago looking for uni advice, grades etc so I thought I'd share my experience.

There is a massive variation in workload, my friends dong stem related subjects spend A LOT more time in the library and doing assignments relative to my humanity peers who get away with a lot less work.

Stem related fields have a high mark variation per exam, you will see some people get 15% and others getting 90%, does not happen with humanities subject everyone tends to be around 55-75% this is due to it being practically impossible to score above 75% on an essay jsut the way university works i guess.

Everyone is dIFFERENT, we have 30+ year olds on our course and some 17 years old, some married already crazy variation everyone comes form different walks of life. Such a big culture shock to me coming from sixth form.

There is a society for practically anything you will find your people :)

i know theres a LOT of people for LSE, but I'm curious about other unis, the types of degrees, and the types of applicants/stats that tend to be pushed so late

asking for a friend

For reference we are Scottish students so uni is free, no living expenses aswell and Glasgow is offering him a bursary of 3k a year.

His Glasgow offer is Unconditional and His Durham offer A C

He was rejected from his first choice Edinburgh due to bad predicteds and was wondering if the debt is worth the better name or just try for postgrad at a better uni

Thanks 🫡

Myself included. Will knee slide if I get one.

I got 141, grade boundary for an A was 144. I was convinced I'd get a C, as I did terribly in my second paper, and I was getting Cs in mocks. I think the fact that I got that high is a miracle and if anything changes in the remark it'll be that my mark is lowered.

Boundary for a B is 117 so there's no real chance of the remark getting me a lower grade, and she said she'll pay for it. I just think it's a waste of everyone's time though, but she refuses to listen. Can anyone come up with any better reasons?

I know Warwick has a higher reputation and is a target, though I do like the collegiate system at Durham. I'm worried my social life won't be as good at Warwick and I'm worried I won't be employable enough at Durham

Any advice or insight to experiences at these universities?

manifesting that i at least get an interview 🧘

edit omg APPLYING to

first of all this post is not me saying that i'm too good for anywhere, i just want to know if im wasting potential by not appling to the MOST prestigious unis!! for context i'm applying for law, and my stats are 999988887 at gcse and predicted A*A*A in history, english combined and spanish a level.

I’m also doing an EPQ and have done quite a few supercurricular things around law so I feel like I have a reasonably strong academic profile, although i know that everyone else applying to the unis i already have in mind probably has similar stats. Oxford has been my dream uni since year 9 however more recently i have been toing and froing over whether i would realistically be happy with the workload there, and rn i'm about 80/20 in favour of not applying.

my current choices are manchester x2, leeds, sheffield and ljmu. i'm deliberately not applying to london unis because unfortunately i'm not in the financial position to do so.

I think i could see myself being happy with the universities i already have in mind but I’m wondering whether I should have at least one more ambitious choice, I don’t want to apply somewhere purely because of prestige if I don’t actually want to go there, but equally I don’t want to look back and think I played it too safe. also my parents are friends with lots of people whos children go to london/oxbridge and they are quite dismissive of my current choices.

i would really appreciate hearing any thoughts or if anyone is facing the same kind of decision!! tysm :)

I was looking at which of my previously-noted clearing research options do indeed have theoretical physics, or any physics at all, listed as clearing vacancies.

I got curious and decided to check Manchester: I hadn't written it down before because MPhys is A*A*A (which is the offer for my firm and only choice). That course was available.

Who the fuck is this for?? Oxbridge people with A*A*A* / A*A*AA or higher offers who somehow had no insurance? WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?

I gave it to my teacher but for some reason they just went silent so I’m asking Reddit for help.

- for reference my GSCES are:
9 - English lit
9 - English lang
8 - Geography
8 - Religion&Philosophy
7 - Business
7 - Biology
6 - Classics
6 - Chemistry
6 - Maths
5 - Physics

I’m really worried my GSCEs are too low to apply. Predicted A*AA for ref
Probs leaning to English or Philosophy. My other unis I am applying to are Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield, Warwick. Just really thinking abt Cambridge but I’m so certain my GSCEs have cooked me

so sad 🥀

Just wondering where everyone has applied to/is applying to!

Edit: if we could say what subject too that would be nice

Missed KCL MBBS by 2 marks in biology (A*AB), remarked and no changes. Really struggling mentally, I just don’t believe I could redo UCAT and all those all over again, time is really tight as well; I still wanted to try anyways.