The University 2009 entry thread!

Insha'Allah, and the best piece of advice...Join the ISOC....and if you wanna be lazy....do it now, uni is not the place for it :exhausted been there done that, stressed at deadlines. Speaking of which, I have one tomorrow and I havnt started :-[
 
Amatul Wadud said:
Insha'Allah, and the best piece of advice...Join the ISOC....and if you wanna be lazy....do it now, uni is not the place for it :exhausted been there done that, stressed at deadlines. Speaking of which, I have one tomorrow and I havnt started :-[
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lol, which uni are you at? what course are you doing?
 
Banu_Hashim said:
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I decided to make a thread for those of us applying this year for University in the UK primarily (and elsewhere). Maybe we can share our anxieties, and inshaAllah joyous moments together!

I sent of my UCAS on the 14th of October. I'm applying for dentistry, with two back-up courses.

University of Bristol - Dentistry - Acknowledgment
University of Leeds - Dentistry - Acknowledgment
University of Cardiff - Dentistry - Nothing what so ever ! imsad (anyone applying here?)
University of Bristol - Neuroscience - Interview/UCAS Open Day
King's College London - Biomedical Sciences - Offer (ABB)

The wait is killing me... I suppose i just have to concentrate on getting good grades anyways :S
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Mash'Allah, Good luck brother:):thumbs_up, Im waiting for some offers - but my teachers screwed me over with my predictions (ABBC) I needed atleast another A .. Oh well
 
Banu_Hashim said:
You remembered! Actually, it wasn't an interview. They basically split us into two groups and took us around the city and campus to show everything and what it was like. Then we had lunch with the undergraduates showing us around.

Then, we had a practical demo, where they hooked us up to this electrocution thing (exaggeration), but basically they stimulated our ulna nerve to make our little finger twitch- pretty cool.

Then after that we had a chat with staff and students. But it was in the group that we were in, and is was really informal. Mostly us asking them stuff about the course etc.

In the booklet they gave us, they said they'd make their decision within days so... just gotta play the waiting game...
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ooh nice! dat practical demo sounds cool!
i always thought that densitry people are given a formal interview just like medicine :blind:

no, i still havent managed to sent my application form off! ( my personal tutor still hasnt done my reference! :exhausted)

Edit: just realised now that u went to the open day for Neuroscience NOT dentistry! oops...
 
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Amatul Wadud said:
Insha'Allah, and the best piece of advice...Join the ISOC....and if you wanna be lazy....do it now, uni is not the place for it :exhausted been there done that, stressed at deadlines. Speaking of which, I have one tomorrow and I havnt started :-[
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the ISOC? whats dat? :X
 
aadil77 said:
Mash'Allah, Good luck brother:):thumbs_up, Im waiting for some offers - but my teachers screwed me over with my predictions (ABBC) I needed atleast another A .. Oh well
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Depends on what course you plan on studying, you could actually contact the universities to find out if they would consider students with lower grades than the minimum requirements. You might find that they do. A friend of mine applied for Finance and Management at City with predicted grades of ABB and they offered her AAB just this Friday.

Me, I got predicted AAB. I applied for Medicine at Birmingham and got an unsuccessful application, because those ****ed people forgot to change their requirement grades on UCAS website. Cheh.

Other than that, I applied to:
- Cardiff - Medicine (so far, I just got an acknowledgement letter)
- UCL - Medicine (nothing so far)
- City - optometry (they want another PS from me. They're not getting one since I'm not particularly keen on learning about the eye)
- Queen Mary's - Biomedical Science (my last back up. Got an offer of BBB, not keen on going there either).
 
The Ruler said:
Depends on what course you plan on studying, you could actually contact the universities to find out if they would consider students with lower grades than the minimum requirements. You might find that they do. A friend of mine applied for Finance and Management at City with predicted grades of ABB and they offered her AAB just this Friday.

Me, I got predicted AAB. I applied for Medicine at Birmingham and got an unsuccessful application, because those ****ed people forgot to change their requirement grades on UCAS website. Cheh.

Other than that, I applied to:
- Cardiff - Medicine (so far, I just got an acknowledgement letter)
- UCL - Medicine (nothing so far)
- City - optometry (they want another PS from me. They're not getting one since I'm not particularly keen on learning about the eye)
- Queen Mary's - Biomedical Science (my last back up. Got an offer of BBB, not keen on going there either).
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Cardiff hasn't sent me anything! It's really annoying. Not even an acknowledgement. I suppose no news is good news at the moment... :S
 
Banu_Hashim said:
Cardiff hasn't sent me anything! It's really annoying. Not even an acknowledgement. I suppose no news is good news at the moment... :S
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No, as far as I know, no news is bad news. Apparently 'decisions' are to be made soon. And if you're not given an interview, you're on the verge of rejection.

Either that's true or my friends are feeding me rat droppings.
 
The Ruler said:
No, as far as I know, no news is bad news. Apparently 'decisions' are to be made soon. And if you're not given an interview, you're on the verge of rejection.

Either that's true or my friends are feeding me rat droppings.
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:O .... I hope that isn't true.

I know someone who got an offer in April for Medicine, from Queen Mary's though.

So InshAllah, there's hope for us yet.
 
Ooh, I got into a school! Pretty exciting. now, I just need to turn all the rest of my applications in!
 
transition? said:
Lol, it's probably not as great as the ones everyone has put down. But I got into the University of Georgia. :statisfie
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I'm sure it's a very well respected uni:).

Do they give you conditional offers in the US? By this I mean that do they say you have to get a certain grade at the end of your high school year, or are you definitely in no matter what.
 
Banu_Hashim said:
I'm sure it's a very well respected uni:).

Do they give you conditional offers in the US? By this I mean that do they say you have to get a certain grade at the end of your high school year, or are you definitely in no matter what.
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Amatul Wadud- Thank you sis <3

Lol, no they only look at the 1st three years of your high school grades if you apply early. If you apply in January, they ask for your first semester grades plus the last three years. They do check up on you kinda while they are deciding whether you should get accepted.
At the end of high school, the school you choose asks for your 2nd semester grades but I'm sure as long as you're not all the sudden failing lol, they're not gonna take your acceptance back.

We call it "senioritis" lol when you start to slack off 2nd semester because those grades really don't matter as much.

GROSS, do they do that in the UK?
 
Yep. :(

They'll give you a "conditional" offer, which says you have to get these grades before you can secure your place.
 

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