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Have questions about Oxford and Cambridge? Don't know who to ask? Look here! Everything that you should need to answer your questions about Oxbridge. Vvi's compilation of useful pages Top 20 tips for surviving an interview General questions about the interview process Filmed Oxford interviews All Oxbridge related questions will now have to be asked here.
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IB is hard, we all know it, and there's always the temptation to take subjects where it's easier to get a 7. I just base my switching of History HL to SL on that. However, there are some subjects in the IB (and also A-Levels that aren't relevant to us) that are considered "soft" and as a result, universities like Cambridge and LSE have openly spelled out their attitudes towards them (not positive). Other selective universities do not accept them either. This is the list of "soft" subjects that aren't recognized the same way as other IB subjects, according to http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/...a-level-s.html: • Business and Management • Design and Technology • I…
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Since we have an Oxbridge thread, and I find some UCAS application processes quite confusing and questions-raising, I thought we might as well have a UCAS thread... All questions regarding UCAS should be addressed in this thread. And I want to start first. Does anybody else think that the 4000 characters limit is too little??? I have only written one paragraph explaining why I want to study in UK, haven't finished and have reached 616 characters. I don't think I could explain eeeeeverything that I'd like to include in my PS then. The mindmap indicates that the length is approximately 600 words, and I think it's very little! What font and size is used in UCAS apply fo…
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Okay after seeing a tonne of questions about getting into Medicine in the UK recently, I thought I'd just save everybody some time and make a questions thread with a little list of frequently asked Qs. Please read through these to see if your question is answered here! ...and if it's not been answered already, please feel free to ask it on this thread so we can keep all the information together for future students so they can more quickly access the info they need. Frequently Asked Questions! Regarding subjects and IB scores... 1.1 Do I need HL Chemistry? 1.2 What if HL Chemistry is not offered at my school? 1.3 Do I need HL Biology? 1.4 Do I need HL Maths? 1.5 How many…
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I just did a practise test and got 31/42. Is that any good? Does anyone know what people who get into Oxbridge/LSE and the like get on the LNATS? Thanks
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The summer goes by fast and most of us (applying in the UK for 2012 entry) are already into UCAS trying to finish our application as quickly as possible. EDIT: deleted every information initially written and this post is now about: Where are you applying this year? Have the increased fees affected your choices?
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My mock exam results just came out and I got like 41-42 for my predicted grade. So, I saw the minimum requirement for applying to oxford is merely 39 points so I might want to give it a try. However, I realize that applying for oxford might be rather troublesome as it involves so many admission tests and UCAS and interviews, while I will be studying so hard for both IB and my German test for uni admission in Germany. Overall, I dont know if it worth a go to apply for oxford with my grade as I don't think my grade is extremely impressive, and I can not afford to invest more extra time on something that rarely work out. So do you have any similar experience when it…
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My personal statement/reference/predicted grade combo, which got me an Oxford interview, has been shunned by Warwick despite 43 points predicted. Anyone with similar rejections despite enormous PGs?
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Hey I am a native English speaker and I was just wondering if UK universities such as Nottingham, Oxford or Cambridge would allow college applications of students with English taken as a second language (acquisition). FYI; I'll be leaning over my sciences courses (physics and maths) in UNI.
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Hello i am new here I just screwed up my IB exam with 24 points total and just scraped a diploma. The universities i applied for is Leicester (30 points) and Hull (28 points). I was originally predicted 28 points. My parents want me to go for a foundation course and they are really really pissed. I suggested doing a retake for Geography and Maths, but my dad fears universities would despise students taking retakes in examination. Is that true? I got the following (crappy) grades: HL - Bio = 5 - Business = 5 - Geo = 4 SL - Maths = 2 - French = 3 - English A1 = 5 Should i do a retake or foundation course? Someone help me, I am VERY worried, pissed and scared (of my dad th…
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Hey guys! I thought I'd start this since peeps will have started finalising their apps and unis for the UK. I thought maybe everyone can write about their choice of subject and which unis they're applying to and maybe their predicted score (only if you want to)? I figure we can all like support each other through the LOOOOOOONG wait that is coming up for us. I'll start: Will send/Sent Application on: 30th September 2013 Course: Law (M100) Unis (in order of preference): University of Oxford (Merton College) London School of Economics Durham University (St. Chad's college) King's College London University of Warwick Current status (20th January): Oxford - Conditional Offer …
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Hey, I'm interested in doing either PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Oxford or IR (International Relations) at London School of Economics. Is anyone else here interested in them? Does anyone know how many points I should approximately have to be accepted? The LSE website says min. 37 and 6-6-6 from HL, but according to our coordinator this is only for them to consider you, so in reality you need more points. Does anyone know how much more?
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Hello guys I have just recently read the entry requirements for the LSE Accounting & Finance undergraduate course it states that LSE will require you to have 38 points HL math is desired but not necessary. Based on the fact that LSE does not have interviews with their potential students I would guess that they do only take into account your motivational letter or personal statement and obviously your grades. Now to my question ! How high is the chance of getting accepted with lets say 39 points and SL math but a very appealing personal statement and CV ? Of course I know that nobody will know the exact answer to this question however I would still be intereste…
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What would score would you need to attain to secure a slot at University of St. Andrews? I know the requirement is at 38, but it must rise due to competition, right?
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Hello Dear All As it is in the topic - would be so kind and suggest to me some universities for which having gone through Math HL in the high school isn't prerequisite? Are there some unis with some decent economics courses (or economic-related) without such entry requirement? I have heard that Durham is quite decent and so is the Manchester uni - could you confirm? Looking forward to hear your opinions/suggestions In case you need my study subcjects: History HL Geogrpahy HL English HL Polish (my national language) SL Math SL Chemistry SL I should also add that there is no such possibility to study economics or buisness and whatsoever
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Hello! What universities in the UK accept 37 IB points?? I think most top universities want more than 37 Ib points. But does anyone know a "good" university which accept 37 IB points?? I am interested in economics and management. But I have not decide yet and I am one for Law and medicine as well !
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Good people of IBS. Since the application deadline for Oxbridge and all the fancy Med courses is on Monday, and people sometimes send their applications off earlier (or already know where they're going to apply in January), I decided to make this thread. This way, we can all moan about how much stress it is to wait for offers and meet people applying to the same unis. Therefore, post your predictions and choices here, so we can keep it all nice and organised. soooooo.... My predictions are in my signature, so I'm not going to repeat myself. Choices: Oxford (Merton) - Law (BA in Jurisprudence) LSE - Law QMUL - English and European Law Newcastle - Law Exeter - Law with …
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Hi everyone, Here's my situation: I just finished my application form, got my reference, personal statement and predicted grades ready. But when I finally wanted to upload my predicted grades the system told me that there was an error because I was placing grades for future examinations (I was on the education area of the application). Anyways, I also looked on the reference part (where it says predicted grades), but I can only put the total grade for the IB. It is not showing me any kind of area where I can put the specific predicted grades for every subject I'm taking. The application is asking me to leave the grade space as "pending" in the education area for eac…
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Hey guys, I have taken my LNAT exam approximately two weeks ago. To do so I went trough the application process and have signed up to take the exam in a test facility in Switzerland. I know that the LNAT will be making my results available to me within early February according to their website. Also my universities are supposed to receive my results within 24h after the completion of the exams. Now I am wondering how the LNAT or Pearson respectively know which universities need my LNAT scores ? Will my universities be able to find my scores using my Name ? Because really there is not much more information I was required to provide throughout my application process, so …
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Hey guys! I was searching about this kind of topic and since I couldn't find one, tadah! So, how many of you have send off applications and received offers?
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Hi After taking some of my IB exams already, I expect that I will not be able to reach my offer.Most likely I will be a point or two off... Does anyone know about ease of negotiation?=/
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Hi there, For those of you who have already heard back from UCL, approximately how long after your application did you receive a response? Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys! I have an offer at university of Edinburgh for 34 points, however I'm afraid I'm going to miss it by one point (worst case scenario.) I was wondering if anyone knew the university's policy on this? Is it possible for me to still get in? I've heard from other students that they might be nicer because they want international students, especially from countries outside of EU because we pay full tuition. I don't know how true this is. What do you guys think?
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Hi. Is anyone applying for "Mathematics with Applied Mathematics/Mathematical Physics" at Imperial College? I have only seen two people who applied for it, including me. How many places does IC offer for this course? By the way, my conditions are 766 in HL including 7 in maths and 6 in physics. Overall 39.
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I've just started the International Baccalaureate, and I'm quite passionate about the subjects Philosophy, Politics and Economics. However, I am worried that my subject combination might prevent me from getting in, as I am not studying History or Mathematics at higher level (as I believe they recommend on the Oxford website.) My subjects are: HL Economics HL Art HL English HL Physics (probably going to drop to Standard Level) SL Maths SL Spanish ab initio Ignoring the other factors (intelligence, passion for your subject etc.) that contribute to being accepted by Oxford, would these subjects allow me to be accepted into Philosophy, Politics and Economics?
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Hello, so I received my IB diploma in 2012. At that point I held conditional offers from Uni of Leeds and SOAS. However, I only received 35 points, which was about 3 points below my conditional offers. Thus, they withdrew their offers. I have re-taken 3 subjects in november increasing my score to 37 points with 18 points in my HLs (not that much of an improvement..i know) and a lowest score of 4 in math SL. Unfortunately, most Universities I'm prepared to pay 9000 pounds a year for require 38 points with 6/6/6 in all HLs eg. Kings college or SOAS. I'm planning to study something along the lines of politics or international relations preferably in combination with chinese,…
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hi guys, i was just wondering... could anyone taking the IB ever receive an unconditional offer from a university in UK before sitting the exam? because I just got a conditional offer from a univ simply because i havent taken the exam... just wondered, have there ever been IB people who got unconditional offer? if yes, what does it take to get them? 45/45 predicted grades, probably?
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I decided to upload my statement stuff for the very ambitious people who want to go to Oxbridge etc. Even though I was rejected from Oxford after being invited for interview, my statement stuff indicates that its content is what they are looking for. I hope this helps my fellow IB'ers. For those of you who may not know, Oxford has an additional application form. Here you should write why you want to attend Oxford in the large space at the bottom of the application. Also you should have a SEPARATE reference for Oxford from a different teacher than the one who wrote your UCAS Referee Statement. You can see which schools I applied to and for which subjects so that the …
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On a lot of UK university courses, they say HL maths is a requirement, e.g. for economics. Is there any point applying for them at all if I do SL? Even if I do really well overall and have good personal statements and references?
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I want to study law with business studies in Kings College London or Birmingham. I don't mind leeds, or bristol, or any other equivalent university in the uk, but something that is known. My IB subjects are Geography HL Hindi HL Business Management HL Math Studies SL English Language and Literature SL Biology SL Apart from this, i have extra curricula's like, I'm learning how to play piano. Im in yoga club, and i have my own student initiative project of which i am the founder along with a friend, that focuses mainly on welfare of the poor and the underprivileged and also the environment. We come up with big projects for the school and the orphanages.my school also prov…
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Ok since already one UCAS deadline passed today, I thought that we could share our university choices (and even get some advice from college students) =) I'm applying for Computer Science only in the UK and the universities I chose are: i. Imperial College London ii. University College London iii. University of Edinburgh iv. University of Warwick v. University of Glasgow Any feedback on any of these universities is more than welcome!!! =) Good luck to everyone with their applications!
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Hey, I posted on this forum a while ago asking about the UK uni admission system, and I think I finally got the hang of it a little So thank you so much for that, those who have kindly replied to me on that topic. But then some other questions also popped up in my mind: 1. When exactly does the application for Oxbridge start? 2. Could anyone tell me what kind of stuff are required for me when applying for them (how many essays, how many requirements, etc), or give me a site with all the requirements on there? 3. I heard that some of you did your interview with Cambridge sometime in December, but then a girl in my school did her interview with Oxford around mid-October la…
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OK, let's say I would like to apply for IR course at Royal Holloway.. It is written at the universities web that the minimum requirement for the course and the typical offer is 35 IB points.. If my predicted grade is 34, does it mean I have no chance of getting an offer? Basically, the question is whether it is possible to get an offer applying with lower predicted grades than needed or not?
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Which level of maths is required for the top unis, I heard that Cambridge requires maths at HL for medicine that is, how difficult and time consuming is it? Any tips for Maths HL? Cheers
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Hey all, I am an european student, but have been studying in the UK for the past 4 years. In my IB (2013 may) I chose English Lit+Lang A HL and achieved a grade 6. Now my question is the following: When applying to UK universities I got a conditional offer. The condition is IELTS 6.5. Shouldn't be a problem, but I always though that a grade 6 in English A would make this unnecessary. Am I right? Thank you!
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Hi, I really want to study at Cambridge, but my subjects are : Math studies, history HL, Nowegian HL, English HL, Chemistry SL, Biology SL. I am planning on stuy law, do you think I can get into Cambridge with high enough grades even though I have math studies? Capa..
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Hey guys, Well I finally, after many troubles with this, decided to apply for economics and business degree. Althought I don't see myself as an economist my parents advise me to choose economics rather that business, or at least a joint degree telling me that busieness is kind of "all and nothing" soft degree and economics is something that will attract my future employees more. I agree with them but I have maths at only SL level, I am hopefully going to have predicted grade 7 and I don't suck at maths too much, but it is still SL not HL. I wonder if I have any chances to get into economics with maths (SL) and whether I had bigger chance if I applied for business. Maybe y…
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Hi Is anyone else doing the LNAT? How do you study (if you do study at all)? What's a good score? Are you doing it in your Junior or Senior year?
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Hello everybody... I just got my results on monday, got a 42 with 7 on math HL... I had 39 with 6 on Math HL as predicted grades so I didn't get into LSE (they wanted 39 with 7 on Math) and accepted an offer in Warwick University. But now, I don't know what to do, I'd really love to go to LSE and I've got the score that they ask. I already mailed them and they've got no vacancies so my choices are either to go to Warwick this year or wait for the next year and apply to Oxford and LSE... What do u guys think is the best to do? Is there such a huge difference from Warwick to LSE that is worth waiting for a year?? And also...is it sure that I'll get an offer if I wait for t…
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Hey guys! I've got a problem with the Education part of my UCAS application. When I enter all the subjects I will be taking exams in, they ask for 'qualification date'. Clicking on the '?' button next to it did not clarify anything, so I want to ask you - should I enter there the session date (May 2011) or the date when I get my diploma (if so, when is it? September?). Thanks in advance
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Hi, I just wanted to know that is it really necessary for IB DP students to give IELTS, TOEFL or any such subject tests if they wish to study in UK? I am studying in DP 2 and I have English A Literature SL. And I particularly want to know about places like University of Bath, University of Manchester, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Hey guys! I figured it might be time to start a thread for this in anticipation of the 15th of October - deadline. I straight up copied Erudite's format from last year, because it was pretty great. Fingers crossed! Will send/Sent Application on: 12th of October (scariest thing I've ever done) Course: Geography (mostly BA) Unis: Oxford - Conditional offer: 40 points with 766 at HL LSE - Rejected Durham - Edinburgh - Manchester - Conditional offer, 35 point + at least 5 in English A SL Terrible excited and scared to death! So, what about you?
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Hi Guys, I am right now choosing my insurance for ucas and can not make the final decision. I hold the offers for management course in both bath and KCL. I choose Warwick as firm choice... However, when it comes to insurance, I wanna choose bath since the course is great, but the condition is as high as Warwick's... For KCL, seems that management is not their strong subject...and I am not sure if I would go there when i miss my firm's condition.... Anyone has any suggestion??? A lot of thanks:)))))
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Hi there, I really hope I haven't missed a similar topic. But I do hopw that someone can help me: Yesterday I registered at UCAS and already started filling out some stuff. Later I got the email that said I should verify my email address. Before submitting your application, you need to verify that the email address you have provided is correct. In order to verify this, please log in to the UCAS website (http://www.ucas.com/students/apply) and enter the verification code shown below: Well, if I do click on the link, though I just get to the the apply section, so i click login 2010 and then it won't let me log in but tells me my data is incorrect... So I made sure via "for…
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Hey there! So I am planning to apply to the UK as an international student. In high school I am doing the IB diploma and my predicted will be around 40-41 with HL biology (7) HL chemistry (6) HL Psychology (6) SL Eng (6) SL Mandarin (6) SL Math (6-7), my UKCAT score was average 650 with a band 3 SJT. I really wanted to apply to imperial, UCL, King's, Brighton Sussex and possibly anything for another school. According to my grades and UKCAT, what do you guys think would be my best option? and do you guys think King's would consider me as they highly value UKCAT score? Any advice would be amazing!
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Hi guys! I want to study computer science at Cambridge and I've been looking through the course requirements and they said that further mathematics is considered highly desirable, which means that I qualify for applying but will be at a disadvantage. The reason I didn't take further mathematics is because our school doesn't offer it. So what do you think? Are my chances slim with just HL math? Is there anything I could do to boost my chances with just HL math? I'm doing my EE in math about a subject related to computer science, but I doubt they care much about that. By the way, does Cambridge care about the 3 extra points from TOK + EE? Because the way I understand it is …
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hey guys..i have seen that CAE (certif of advanced english) brings you 70 points.does IELTS bring you so?
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Hi, I am what would be considered an 'international student' to UCLA since i live in Canada. I have many extracurricular activities (such as concert choir, chamber choir, concert band, police academy, volunteering at local organizations, volunteering at summer camps for children, missions trips, and more) plus I am about to take the SAT tomorrow, however my total points out of 45 are a bit scary. I would like to know (from any country, those of you who are IB students who have been accepted to UCLA, and also those IB students who have graduated either recently or a while ago): * what are the guidelines for acceptance into UCLA? * what predicted grades did you receive in…
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I just need to rant, I got rejected from the University of Edinburgh, my dream uni with a 42 776 higher level. At first, I was disappointed, but when i found out that my close friend got into the exact same course as I wanted to on a 34! HE GOT IN ON A 34 AND I GOT REJECTED ON A 42!!! its a broken system, a broken unethical system that rewards those who are willing to pay more. What's the point in having the government set up price ceilings for universities if they're just going to offer places to people who are willing to accept the people who are going to pay more, at the expense of the more qualified students. Im absolutely livid
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Hi I'm going into my second year next year and i want to study PPE at Oxford My Predicteds are: English A1 HL-6 Spanish A2 SL-6 History HL- 7 Economics HL- 7 Maths SL-7 E Systems -6 There is a TSA test to take and they said most score in the mid-high 60s, I've been practicing the test and so far I've been getting High 80s to low 90s The website says they require 39, so I'm right there but do I have a significant chance? Does EE matter to them at all? And what will they look at apart from my predicteds and Test scores? I was in the American system so I didn't do GCSEs and I had only okay grades the year before due to some health issues. Much appreciated
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