UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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https://www.ucas.com
If your kid didn't get their ED / EA and is getting rejections and wants to go to Edinburgh, St. Andrews, UCL, Bath or similar they can still apply. (Oxford and Cambs is completely done for this year). Most of the top UK universities require 3-5 AP exams at grade 5 in major-relevant subjects and if you have an SAT score to submit, it only needs to be over 1200/1300 (bare minimum). It costs around $30 to apply for 5 colleges via UCAS The Personal Statement is important for some colleges and less so for others. Some only look at grades, others use the PS as a tie breaker between similar applicants and others will look at it very closely for subject relevant understanding. |
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| But then you have to live in England….and if you were to take LONDON out of the calcs, there economy is no better than MISSISSIPPI |
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How is that relevant to an international student? |
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Your grammar is no better than Mississippi….don’t go abroad. |
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+1. Also several of the schools OP mentioned are not in England. But I don’t expect someone who can’t figure out “there” and “their” to understand the difference between England and the UK. |
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If anyone has any questions about the process and wants their kid to apply in the next ten days, ask now.
They will need 1 written reference from a teacher or counselor. If a teacher, it should be in the subject they are planning to study, or subject adjacent. On UCAS you provide the school email address for the referee and UCAS send them a link where they upload their letter. It is confidential, short and they're asked to address any exceptional circumstances (illness, family bereavement etc) that may have negatively impacted the student. |
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I’m from Mississippi…..these are going to be your peers… |
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I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills… |
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I am a parent who has been using DCUM since 2014. Some advice has been invaluable to me on these boards. My kid is going to the UK for college in the Fall and I just want to be helpful for anyone out there who is seriously considering this themselves. If you're just here to spar and berate you can find plenty of other threads where you'll get a bite. |
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| For kids with juniors: it was very nice to have a St. Andrew’s and Durham acceptance in hand by early December (applied for Oct. 15). Good, solid “target options” if kid didn’t get into a reach in the US… |
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OP here. Those are great options. If you apply early in Sept next Fall, when the applications open, you can get offered places within days or weeks, according to some recent accounts (from parents). It will depend on the credentials and the college. Edinburgh and Bath are known to hold off until the January deadline, in order to make their offers going out completely equitable. |
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Nice of you to try and help. Unfortunately most American kids won’t be able to hack it at a UK university. No one to hold their hand. |
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St. Andrews has 20% US students and is one of the top colleges, so some of them (Top US students) do ok, but I understand your reservations. |
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Yes, DS is a St Andrews grad, very independent and resilient kid. Half the comments on the Tell Me About St Andrews thread are people complaining about how strict the rules are and how uncaring the administration. It is a very different educational environment than one finds in the US. |
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This was really helpful, OP. I have a junior. My kid keeps saying she wants to apply in the UK. I know the process is different, but I have no idea how it's different?
I heard that they had to take a completely separate admissions test that isn't offered frequently-- is that only for Oxford and Cambridge? |