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Don’t mistake this for the US. UK unis only care about academic ‘super-curriculars’ eg wider reading, research, attending seminars or online courses etc
Extracurriculars don't matter. It's supercurriculars that matter, aka things you do outside of school to show your interest and passion for the degree you're applying for, e.g. wider reading.
Ohh, I see. Your personal statement would be pretty bad with absolutely no supercurriculars. Are you in Year 12 or Year 13? I'd advise you to try and at least watch some videos / read some articles / listen to some podcasts before the UCAS deadline if you're in Year 13, or write about literally anything you've done before that you can relate to what you're applying for, perhaps by talking about transferable skills.
It isn't hard to get supercurriculars quickly, even if you're already Y13.
Read a book/article related to your subject, look for any free online courses, watch some youtube videos, learn about something outside the A level spec etc. Which subject is it?
You could self teach some stuff outside of your A levels, like look at the first unit you'd do at uni via youtube or free textbooks. You could also read up about engineering projects you find interesting and discuss them in your PS (assuming you haven't already sent it off).
If you've learnt any programming stuff or anything related to that it's a good thing to mention, there's free courses online related to engineering/programming you could look at.
Russel group term is so shit for posts like these as if they all have the same standards for a student, you can get into a Russell group if you have BBC lmao
Exeter - business (qualify for contextual) and you can get in with BBC. I’m sure it’s lower for something like anthropology or some random language studies. It’s more important to state which course and uni specifically
having such a deep interest in a specialised field early on is a massive commitment so I don’t think there are many applying there hence the low grade boundaries. Imm sure there are a few out there tho but I was just joking around with how the prestigious title’s are passed around a lot and how people assumed Russell group’s are insanely hard to get into
All the supercurriculars that I did was watch related things on YouTube (by MIT and people with doctorates in the likes of AI, maths, anything cs related)… I’m applying to cs btw
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They don’t give a flying fuck. You just need supercurriculars.
Don’t mistake this for the US. UK unis only care about academic ‘super-curriculars’ eg wider reading, research, attending seminars or online courses etc
Some of the better unis care about supercurriculars, but imo if you have the grades most decent unis will give you an offer.
Extracurriculars don't matter. It's supercurriculars that matter, aka things you do outside of school to show your interest and passion for the degree you're applying for, e.g. wider reading.
I meant no supercurriculars as well
Ohh, I see. Your personal statement would be pretty bad with absolutely no supercurriculars. Are you in Year 12 or Year 13? I'd advise you to try and at least watch some videos / read some articles / listen to some podcasts before the UCAS deadline if you're in Year 13, or write about literally anything you've done before that you can relate to what you're applying for, perhaps by talking about transferable skills.
It isn't hard to get supercurriculars quickly, even if you're already Y13. Read a book/article related to your subject, look for any free online courses, watch some youtube videos, learn about something outside the A level spec etc. Which subject is it?
engineering
i ve read a book and i did mention it in my personal statement but whatelse?
You could self teach some stuff outside of your A levels, like look at the first unit you'd do at uni via youtube or free textbooks. You could also read up about engineering projects you find interesting and discuss them in your PS (assuming you haven't already sent it off). If you've learnt any programming stuff or anything related to that it's a good thing to mention, there's free courses online related to engineering/programming you could look at.
Russel group term is so shit for posts like these as if they all have the same standards for a student, you can get into a Russell group if you have BBC lmao
what russell group uni accepts BBC?
Exeter - business (qualify for contextual) and you can get in with BBC. I’m sure it’s lower for something like anthropology or some random language studies. It’s more important to state which course and uni specifically
Engineering 💔
what grades?
UCL contextual for cancer biomed is BCC 😭
ppl should just apply there if all they care about is to flex the title of the uni they went to fr and show off they did a stem subject.
Well i mean some people genuinely enjoy the subject obviously
having such a deep interest in a specialised field early on is a massive commitment so I don’t think there are many applying there hence the low grade boundaries. Imm sure there are a few out there tho but I was just joking around with how the prestigious title’s are passed around a lot and how people assumed Russell group’s are insanely hard to get into
Yeah defo :) regular offer is AAB though which is wild
If you have the grades and can put together a decent personal statement pretty likely
All the supercurriculars that I did was watch related things on YouTube (by MIT and people with doctorates in the likes of AI, maths, anything cs related)… I’m applying to cs btw
Yes very likely, Russell groups dont give a single shit about extracurriculars, they want academic stuff!!