UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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Anonymous
Oops. Sorry. I meant I have a sophomore. So there's time! |
Anonymous
Agreed. I don't know how this thread got options? Lot of families are grieving from ED1 and ED2 rejections right now. If youbhabe a DC that is up for the adventure, why not treat this idea seriously and look into this great opportunity? |
Anonymous
| Are families really “grieving”’from ED1 and ED2? Sounds like people need some grit. |
Anonymous
| Note that university in the UK is 3 years not 4 and there are no real electives--you study just what's in your major, and you can't easily switch majors. So it's definitely not for everyone. |
Anonymous
No….England….In Scotland it is 4 years and there are plenty of electives. And you do have a LITTLE bit of flexibility to potentially change majors in end of year 1 or 2. |
Anonymous
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It can be a very good option. There are some differences to understand.
Universities in the UK generally do less hand-holding than some US universities, both for living arrangements and academics. Students need to know to self-advocate. Also, the American notion of "extra-time" for kids with learning differences is at least uncommon; many places it does not exist at all. Nearly all UK students - even in Scotland - have made a firm decision about which degree to pursue in college before applying. Their last 2 years of HS were concentrated accordingly. Housing in London is tight and often expensive. Most 1st year students at one of the constituent Colleges within the University of London can get a dorm, but after that the student needs to find/arrange their own accommodation. Important to understand housing options for any UK university one is applying to. |
Anonymous
| They have to pick a major though? That's held my ds back. He doesn't know yet. |
Anonymous
Yes. One applies for a specific degree, even in Scotland. Further, the precise admissions requirements do vary with the selected degree. |
Anonymous
Changing majors after matriculation is uncommon in Scotland, and is done by a request, which the University is free to deny. So do not count on this. It might happen in adjacent degrees. Contrived example might be a Physics student changing to Maths, because Physics already will require a lot of Maths and student likely also met admissions requirements for Maths. By contrast, a History student changing to CS is fairly unlikely to be approved. They are not adjacent fields and likely have different admissions requirements. |
Anonymous
They can get familiar with the concept of a lounge conversion, which is a learning experience of sorts. |
Anonymous
| The OPs question and premise of …. I didn’t get into ED1 so I’ll just go to UK….. does that actually happen? Like, I didn’t get into BC, none of the other schools are interesting or prestigious enough in the US so I’ll just go to St Andrews. |
Anonymous
Maybe not at the very top schools if DC's academics are not high, but there also are a range of other UK universities (e.g., former polytechnics) where admission would be easier for an overseas student (partly because overseas students are full pay). |
Anonymous
OP here. To answer your question, if you apply to study Math you have an entry test, similar for some other STEM courses at places like Imperial / UCL etc. The websites for those colleges will explain the admissions process in some detail of you look them up. Each course is handled differently. It is actually very hard to switch majors. Often this involves starting again at year 1. I had a friend at Cambridge who started Russian and Persian, switched to Persian and Arabic and then one more time (I can't remember the variation)). that was not so difficult a change but it took him 5 yrs to finish a 3 yr degree in the end, because of the changes he made. |
Anonymous
Overseas students pay overseas rates, UK students pay UK rates. They are now, very recently vastly different. The advantage of the ex-polys is that their fees for overseas are not that high. So a UK student at any college is paying approximately 9500 per year tuition, regardless of course and college. If you're an overseas student wanting to study art at an ex poly, you'll pay around 15000 pounds per year, if you want to do it at Oxford it will be around 30k. If you want too study medicine at Oxford it will be around 73k/ yr tuition. There's a lot of variation now. |
Anonymous
My son was a Management major at Edinburgh and changed to International relations in semester 4. It is very easy to do so IF and only IF you take your electives in the other course. At Edinburgh you typically have 3 compulsory classes in year 1 and 3 electives. The 3 electives can typically be at any college that open classes for the whole university. My son took 3 Compulsory business classes and 3 electives in the Political Science school. Same for the 1st semester of year 2 and then he made the official request to change and was granted. He had a buddy that went the other way. From IR to Management. The difficulty is finding the appropriate class times to make it work. But if you do have the compulsory classes, 9 out of 10 times, the different schools at Edinburgh will accept your transfer request. This is something that just doesnt exist in English unis due to the 3 year nature of their program vs SCotland’s 4 years. |