 #2 (permalink) Fri Aug 06, 2004 14:07 pm How's the chance to be accepted? |
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Hi Clark,
thank you for the detailed description. It's always helpful to have some insider's information on things happening in a foreign (at least to me) country.
I am just curious about the whole unversity system in Britain. Do you apply at each university? Or is there a central let's call it agency that accepts the applications and than "distributes" the applicants to universities that match the personal wishes? We have such a system in Germany, because some universities have a numerus clausus (a restrictive clause which allows only students having a certain number of points on their final school exam to study those universities).
I am just curious, because I was playing with the thought of studying at a British university and I was wondering whether it is possible just to apply to that uni I want to go to !?
Okay, I hope that was not too confusing. By the way, what are you studying?
Bye from Berlin
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| #3 (permalink) Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:03 am How's the chance to be accepted? |
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| mistarix wrote: |
Hi Clark,
thank you for the detailed description. It's always helpful to have some insider's information on things happening in a foreign (at least to me) country.
I am just curious about the whole unversity system in Britain. Do you apply at each university? Or is there a central let's call it agency that accepts the applications and than "distributes" the applicants to universities that match the personal wishes? We have such a system in Germany, because some universities have a numerus clausus (a restrictive clause which allows only students having a certain number of points on their final school exam to study those universities).
I am just curious, because I was playing with the thought of studying at a British university and I was wondering whether it is possible just to apply to that uni I want to go to !?
Okay, I hope that was not too confusing. By the way, what are you studying?
Bye from Berlin
MistariX |
Hi MistariX,
The British university system works like this-you firstly study in a college or a high school,we call it a levels, and that is a two-year long course. After you finish the first year's exams, like I have done, you put the results along with the personal statement and a teacher's reference on a form called UCAS form, and at this point you can apply for six universities. Now the UCAS form gets sent off from your college or high school before the deadline which is usually in December. The universities that you have applied for will overview your grades, personal statment and teacher's reference and then decide whether to give you an offer or not. You sit on your hands in January waiting for the response from the universities, at this point, you can get rejected from all or get accepted from all or get accepted by one or two, but you get the picture. When you do receive an offer you will be asked to achieve certain grades in the following year and that's the so-called conditional offer. Finally you have got to choose two universities out of the ones given you the offers, one is called firm and another is insurance. The firm is usually offered at higher grades than the insurance, and thus in the following year you wait for your grades to come out and you then will know whether you will be going to the firm uni or the insurance uni or you may not go anywhere because your grades are even lower than the insurance. Then you will go through a process called pooling, there will be a list of unwanted subjects in a number of universities and you can pick one of them. But you can always phone the universities you applied for and beg them to accept you, that always works if they really like you.
As for a foreign student, I am not sure how it's gonna work out but I bet it's more or less the same if you are at high school level.
I am studying computer science, and yourself? 
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