anyone else going through the torture of university applications at the moment?

- my school is making us hand our completed apps in tomorrow, despite the fact that they're not sending them off for another month. This would be ok if they had been REMOTELY freakin' helpful about it, but no, they've given us next to NO advice or help except in the most general terms, and all they've succeeded in doing is demoralising everyone. Plus, have just found out that someone else in my school is applying to my top university - Edinburgh - for exactly the same course - French and Italian - and she's fluent in Italian. Well screw this...

sorry, just had to vent this! gah, can't wait for this to be over with :(


~Cesca

you say you wanna play country...

"Plus, have just found out that someone else in my school is applying to my top university - Edinburgh - for exactly the same course - French and Italian - and she's fluent in Italian. Well screw this..."

you'd be surprised at how little this stuff counts to admissions officers in most places. besides, it's not like they'll have only one place available to your college or school. how are your grades?

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Odd but true proposition of the moment:
Robby Takac is wasted on the Goo Goo Dolls.

I hated filling out applications. The essays are always retarded.

Well, actually, my NYU essay was really cool, but the rest were retarded.
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im a junior and on my 3rd school. so i know what a pain in the ass filling out applications can be, transferring sucks and thank god im finally liking where i am for once. Now i can just wait a couple more years until i apply for grad school...
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yeah im going through the same ucas crap-- but my school has forgot to mention for us to bring them in or anything. and i dont get why the ucas stuff is needed in before we get the chance to go to some open days- theres loads in october. i mean- i dont think it HAS to be in til january, but its best if its in at the beginning of october i heard.

you'd be surprised at how little this stuff counts to admissions officers in most places. besides, it's not like they'll have only one place available to your college or school. how are your grades?

Thanks :) Unfortunately my school is well...'posh' to say the least and our teachers have warned us that some unis don't particularly want too many from here...but tbh I really don't know how true that is. (Also, it may be a myth but people say that Edinburgh aren't too fond of Southerners...hm)
Grades are fine, 4 A's, but still...gah. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

And easytiger you're right, there really is no point us putting in our apps so early - don't know why school wants them in now. Which unis/courses are you looking at?

~Cesca

you say you wanna play country...

If it helps ease yr mind, I gotta say that most of the things that tutors and school management recommended to me and my friends when we were doing our UCAS apps (back in the day heh) were pretty much all useless lies. lol

Pretty much every uni I applied to, if I had the required predicted grades, they accepted me, if I didn't have them, they didn't.

Just make sure tutors don't fuck up your predicted grades. Mine did. Asstards.

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Odd but true proposition of the moment:
Robby Takac is wasted on the Goo Goo Dolls.