Anonymous
01/19/2025 20:51
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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?
I heard that they had to take a completely separate admissions test that isn't offered frequently-- is that only for Oxford and Cambridge?
Anonymous
01/19/2025 20:51
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 20:35
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills…
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 18:26
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills…
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 16:51
Subject: Re:UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote: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…
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 16:27
Subject: Re:UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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…
Anonymous
01/19/2025 16:01
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills…
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 15:46
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote: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.
I guess there is either a UCAS PR person around here or UNIs are begging for American Students to pay their bills…
Anonymous
01/19/2025 15:45
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Your grammar is no better than Mississippi….don’t go abroad.
I’m from Mississippi…..these are going to be your peers…
Anonymous
01/19/2025 15:39
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 15:09
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Your grammar is no better than Mississippi….don’t go abroad.
+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.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 14:54
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote: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
Your grammar is no better than Mississippi….don’t go abroad.
Anonymous
01/19/2025 14:51
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
Anonymous wrote: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
How is that relevant to an international student?
Anonymous
01/19/2025 14:16
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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
Anonymous
01/19/2025 12:00
Subject: UK applications are still open thru UCAS until Jan. 29th
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.
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.