Has anyone got an offer from UCL for Sept 2016 start?

[katemiddletonsothermum]

DD has applied to UCL. She already has 4 offers but UCL is her top choice. They are dragging their heels and have not yet made her an offer / rejected her. However, in the meantime, DD is concerned that the best rooms in the student accommodation for her other choices will be snapped up as students confirm their first choices.

Anyway, I suspect DD is on the bottom of the UCL pile and I just wish they'd hurry up and reject her so that she can confirm her place at another very good uni. She won't feel too bad about that (we've talked about it) - but I wondered whether it was UCL who are being slow in sending out offers, or whether it's just DD who hasn't received an offer yet.

Her school said that they'd chase UCL up, but god knows how the system works these days .

I think I might start making it up as I go along too....

You might learn something if you could get over thinking you know more than anyone else, Molio

That's interesting Bobo - the friend if DS (mentioned upthread) who is at a reasonably well known school who have have had many UCL offers over the years only got his offer in the last couple of weeks. (Post A level and very impressive marks) . How do they do it ? - sift though the schools' application before looking at the applicant ?

Not saying you are wrong at all - I just can't get round how it would work as you say it does.

Oh and my post is anecdotal Genuinely interested in UCL having certain schools they recognise - how does it work ?

Hocus - the filter that the admissions uses isn't any kind of perfect system but scores applicants on various key word criteria which include school attended. DC who have been to "unrecognized" schools need extra attention, as do DC from known schools with otherwise less than obvious academic criteria.

It's all in the interest of filtering, for reasons of efficiency, and also paying sufficient attention to applicants with less obvious qualities.

IMO and IME UCL are better at managing admissions than LSE.

Pot/ kettle Bobo :)

I have no problem at all admitting I know less than others when that's the case, which it often is.

BS Molio. You are totally crap at it!

Ds had an offer from UCL in Oct. (Not history). He had an offer from Oxford in Jan, but agonised because he really wanted UCL, but massive pressure from school (their stats?) to accept Oxford.
Eventually (with our support) he firmed UCL, and the relief made it obvious that this is what he really wanted.
He now has to get the grades...

Mrs Guy - I have a bias - (I was at UCL) - Good for him if this is what he wanted - which subject was it? A friend of my son just really wanted to go to UCL - under big pressure to apply to Cambridge - preferred UCL. He will be going to UCL
(Of course the UCL entry grades may (depending on subject) be higher than Oxford) but he's clearly in that frame. Good luck to him. truly I wish him well.

What did he do with the Oxford offer MrsG? Is it his insurance?

No, not insurance - the course he really wanted isn't offered at Oxford, so it was a different one.
Among his friends, several who are considered 'Oxbridge material' did not apply because they wanted specific other courses that were offered elsewhere so luckily he was able to see that those had resisted the pressure upfront. A few others had offers from bit US Unis and Oxbridge and have opted for the US, which seems to be a growing trend.

He has spent his teenage years living in London and he likes London (will not be living at home ). I also think that the 'nostalgia' aspect of Oxford (I could just imagine myself as Harriet Vane in Gaudy night with all the trappings...punting etc...) does not seem to be a factor with teenagers. ( Don't want to say the course as it might out mehim...)

The 'nostalgia' aspect of Oxford is for tourists and those who actually want to see Oxford life from that angle. There are more 'dressed-up' occasions at Oxford of course but I would n't regard that as nostalgia.

Makes perfect sense to me why a student who wanted a particular course or modules offered by UCL and not by Oxford (such as the UCL liberal arts course) would prefer UCL rather than taking a 'wrong-fit' course.