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Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:22 pm
by belalala
64hz wrote:
belalala wrote:bump.
anyone care to share how long it took to hear back?
also any UWE/goldsmiths/sussex/UArts people please shed some light on your experience.
took me about 3 weeks to get an offer from one of my choices, still havnt heard from the second one but i think it can be any time up til may. you apply though UCAS?
ye through UCAS, with the exception of London College of Communication. submitted just a week or 2 after january 15 because the international deadline isn't til june 30... hopefully that won't hugely impact anything. grades from the uni I'm in now aren't the best (between a B and a B+ average) but it's a very good school, especially for journalism. plus maybe UK schools need all the international tuition they can get? gah, i'm really banking on getting out of here this fall, will be pretty stumped if nothing works out for me :confused:
here's to hoping...!

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:36 pm
by ahier
anyone doing an MA sometime soon?
Wanna share experiences?

I wanna do creative writing at potentially either birkbeck/goldsmiths/exeter/manchester atm (niche subject i know)

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:45 pm
by firky
ahier wrote:anyone doing an MA sometime soon?
Wanna share experiences?

I wanna do creative writing at potentially either birkbeck/goldsmiths/exeter/manchester atm (niche subject i know)
I keep toying with the idea and putting it off. I'd like to do one with the OU so I can structure it around fulltime work. I want an MA in something utterly useless like anthropology, media studies, or some sort of political science with sociology but I doubt my previous degrees would get me on either. Just like learning about stuff...!

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:49 pm
by ahier
firky wrote:
ahier wrote:anyone doing an MA sometime soon?
Wanna share experiences?

I wanna do creative writing at potentially either birkbeck/goldsmiths/exeter/manchester atm (niche subject i know)
I keep toying with the idea and putting it off. I'd like to do one with the OU so I can structure it around fulltime work. I want an MA in something utterly useless like anthropology, media studies, or some sort of political science with sociology but I doubt my previous degrees would get me on either. Just like learning about stuff...!
yeah useless but academic degrees are the best, although with mine id also like to get knowledge of publishing industry aswell just to see if its gonna be of any interest to me.
as well as OU it'd probably be worth considering doing a part time course somewhere, it would mean part-time work only as an option but that way you can find a course with particularly good/experienced lecturers, i dont know much about how OU works but i like the idea of having a place to study

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:51 pm
by firky
I couldn't go back to uni, I'd be up a bell tower with a sniper rifle.

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:57 pm
by ahier
haha that bad? doing an MA surely you could avoid most of the stnuc

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:16 pm
by Kochari
firky wrote:I couldn't go back to uni, I'd be up a bell tower with a sniper rifle.
Precisely why I am going

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:09 pm
by 64hz
belalala wrote:
64hz wrote:
belalala wrote:bump.
anyone care to share how long it took to hear back?
also any UWE/goldsmiths/sussex/UArts people please shed some light on your experience.
took me about 3 weeks to get an offer from one of my choices, still havnt heard from the second one but i think it can be any time up til may. you apply though UCAS?
ye through UCAS, with the exception of London College of Communication. submitted just a week or 2 after january 15 because the international deadline isn't til june 30... hopefully that won't hugely impact anything. grades from the uni I'm in now aren't the best (between a B and a B+ average) but it's a very good school, especially for journalism. plus maybe UK schools need all the international tuition they can get? gah, i'm really banking on getting out of here this fall, will be pretty stumped if nothing works out for me :confused:
here's to hoping...!
good luck with it all :4:

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:52 am
by phrex
I FUCKING PASSED EXAMS!
:5: :5: :5: :5: :5: :5: :5: :5:

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:28 pm
by Mutiny
Halls or student house?

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:48 pm
by hutyluty
Mutiny wrote:Halls or student house?
i'm going with halls i think, cheaper and less kind of isolated if yknow what i mean

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:30 pm
by finji
Is it a good idea for me to go Manchester or leeds met? my mother seems to think i will get robbed or something since i've been brought up in an isolated north eastern village... :sofa:

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:45 pm
by cosmic_surgeon
hutyluty wrote:
Mutiny wrote:Halls or student house?
i'm going with halls i think, cheaper and less kind of isolated if yknow what i mean
Halls are around £90 per week, bills inc. My house is £52 a week (water included) - between 3 the net is approx £2.50 a week each, leccy roughly £4.30 a week each, and gas about £4.80 a week each. Works out at £63.60 a week each - halls are a rip mate.

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:02 pm
by hutyluty
cosmic surgeon wrote:
hutyluty wrote:
Mutiny wrote:Halls or student house?
i'm going with halls i think, cheaper and less kind of isolated if yknow what i mean
Halls are around £90 per week, bills inc. My house is £52 a week (water included) - between 3 the net is approx £2.50 a week each, leccy roughly £4.30 a week each, and gas about £4.80 a week each. Works out at £63.60 a week each - halls are a rip mate.

ahh right haha cheers, may have to reconsider lol

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:13 pm
by cosmic_surgeon
hutyluty wrote:
cosmic surgeon wrote:
hutyluty wrote:
Mutiny wrote:Halls or student house?
i'm going with halls i think, cheaper and less kind of isolated if yknow what i mean
Halls are around £90 per week, bills inc. My house is £52 a week (water included) - between 3 the net is approx £2.50 a week each, leccy roughly £4.30 a week each, and gas about £4.80 a week each. Works out at £63.60 a week each - halls are a rip mate.

ahh right haha cheers, may have to reconsider lol
No better way to meet people than in halls mate, was just thinking if you were making the decision based purely on money :)

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:52 am
by Mutiny
Wont i meet just as many people when living in a house? just from being around the city etc?

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:11 am
by Pada
finji wrote:Got offer from Bristo UWE today, anyone else thinking of going there?
Yeah looks like i'll be at UWE next year!

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:42 pm
by belalala
i hope to join you two... :/

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:44 pm
by gnome
Mutiny wrote:Halls or student house?
House. Halls can be uncomfortable depending on who you live with. But for meeting new people in your first year it has to be halls.

Re: Uni Application 2011 Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:11 pm
by ahier
finji wrote:Is it a good idea for me to go Manchester or leeds met? my mother seems to think i will get robbed or something since i've been brought up in an isolated north eastern village... :sofa:
youll be fine as long as you arent an idiot