r/6thForm

I apply for architecture undergrad at UCL in January and submitted my UCAS application on time. However for some separate reasons I wasn’t able to confirm my referee’s contact info on UCAS so I contacted the admissions team directly and they said it would be ok and would reach out to me directly after I submitted my portfolio. To which I did everything else correctly and waited patiently for any more communications.

Until last week I was notified of rejection from UCL on the basis of an incomplete application. I reached out to the team again and apparently I submitted grades incorrectly on UCAS as an international student who literally had no idea how the website works and so it qualified as 2 incomplete sections to which they didnt want to contribute the application.

I’m genuinely just completely heartbroken right now. I emailed them one more time after submitting an enquiry but I’m not hopeful. UCL was my dream school since 9th grade and to be rejected over literally the stupidest mistake known to man is soul-crushing. I was even looking for director contacts to maybe reconsider my case but I’m just going thru the 5 stages of grief ATM. Life sucks. What makes it worst is that my personal, grades, and portfolio were all actually good enough to maybe get in. I worked so hard and now I just want to curl up into a ball and die. Sorry for the rant.

I geniuenly extremely hate biology especially like in the last mock I got U (I geniusnly got less than 20 marks on the whole thing) and the content just feels so dry and meaningless rven the mark schemes feel like trying to memorise a dictionary plus the resources feel either too dense or the complete opposite or I won't be able to answer a single question (like with exam past papers) all this is consuming me because I feel like i hsve to make it up to myself but to the point where I geniuenly can't see a life after a levels (also in my other subjects I got D and C so basically completely flopped mocks)

is anyone revising it? feels like such a waste of time for like only 2 marks basically but then i'm terrified i won't revise it and then bam for the first time ever there's a 10 marker only on presumed large data set knowledge 😭😭

When people say students are getting better and better at their subjects bc they are using ai how exactly are they using it to get better and boost their grades. Do they ask it to see where they have gone wrong in a question, do they ask it to create more questions. How exactly should I be using ai in order to boost my grades

Tomorrow, the admissions team (i think) opens up again at 9am - and im just unsure of how im feeling.

I have checked freedom of information requests that showed ucl dont give many offers specifically for bsc econ around this time of the year - and although im not trying to be all doom and gloom for any other waiting for the same thing, my hope is beginning to dwindle bit by bit…

Has anyone been given offers during april so far? I cant find many and idk if maybe the way ucl gives offers has changed , because the FOI request i found only covered the admission cycles from 2018/19 to 2020/21 - with the highest for april being 5 in 2019/20, and the other two cycles giving 0 offers in april.

Idk if my 3.5 TMUA has just entirely screwed me over since im predicted 2 A* (maths and econ) and 1 A (fm) and i dont think my ps was bad at all either tbh - the tmua the only thing i can think of that is just purely holding me back. To any reader not yet applied… take ur tmua seriously…

Good luck to everyone else

i applied back in early november and still havent heard back🙁 should i just assume it is a rejection? im losing my mind since i have a kcl offer already and i have seen a lot of the accomodations at both unis, in my price range, have already been taken while im still waiting on ucl 😣

I’m so unbelievably, shockingly, sorrily, ghastly, horrifyingly, heartbreakingly, saddeningly, dishearteningly, world-changingly, head-spinningly cooked. Whenever I try to revise the stupid subject everything goes in one ear and out the other, but why o why? Thou subject hath duly turned thy heart dull. Wherefore economics? Wherefore thou most strikingly difficult? LIDDERALLY ANY TIPS OR TRICKS WILL DO LIKE IM NOT EVEN SCRAPING D’S IM IN DIRE NEED OF HELPP!!!!

After all of the UAT UK data breaches and crappy specifications - should we make a petition to dissolve UAT UK? Who’s with me!

I’ve been doing pure papers since march, and I genuinely have made no improvement I’m still stuck in 60s to 70s range, and I keep making silly mistakes, I need an A at least does anyone have advice??? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

last year, the last bulk of offers came in 3 days after the easter break(25th->28th) for l100 econ. if they're following this pattern, i reckon most offers will be coming in the week they come off break (13th-20th), so not long. hold on guys its coming

I'm predicted 4A*, applying with final grades. I take Economics, Business, Accounting and Math, so no Further Maths. Which schools would be good safeties? Looking for two safeties, I'm looking at Durham, Nottingham, KCL and Bath right now, any others to consider? Also would Economics and Management be a less competitive course than pure Economics?

Does anyone else not enjoy maths olympiads? If so, why?

And is being good at maths olympiads and reading maths at university a correlation or causation?

is there a service where you can hand in past papers or papers you’ve done on your own and have them marked by like an examiner and get some feedback? just curious

or is that just regular tutoring 😂 i’m prepping for a levels and as a resit student i want to make sure my exam technique is good enough so far PLUS teachers are busy and we don’t always have mocks

CALLING ALL ALEVEL FM STUDENTS

ive got a drive with a bunch of shadow papers and mock papers from brampton manor academy (top school in the country). They vary from medium to super difficult. No papers from 2025 sadly but ive for 2018-2024.

lets get that a*

Has anyone heard back from Manchester for EEE with year in industry it's my last uni to respond and its taking forever :(((((((

How many hours a day is everyone studying in year 12?

Hey everyone,

I’ve got offers from Cambridge, RVC, Edinburgh, and Bristol, and I’m stuck deciding between Cambridge and RVC.

I’m honestly leaning towards Cambridge because I really like the supervision system and the college life — it just feels like a great fit for me. But I’ve also seen quite a few posts saying the teaching quality (especially for vet) at Cambridge isn’t that great, which is making me second guess things.

Also, about RCVS accreditation — at the offer holder event they basically said everything is on track and there shouldn’t be any issues, so that made me feel better. But at the same time… I keep going back and forth and can’t fully relax about it.

Are there any current

hi guys, i actually posted this in a couple of subreddits and sorry if this is the wrong way to use this particular one. i just lowk really want opinions of a level students too lmao and in general british people. i’m on a gap year rn and decided to reapply to unis and this is my sitch, i originally wrote this for a more american subreddit so which is why i call myself an international student.

i’m an international student from the UK and am so lucky i am in the position of having to make this choice.

i have offers to the SPO-Columbia dual degree, LSE for economic history, UCL for philosophy and economics, UCL management science, Princeton and Berklee college of music.

luckily i do have pretty solid financial aid for princeton and columbia (plus a scholarship for SPO portion of the course) and a scholarship for beeklee. that being said financially the Columbia SPO DD works out to be the cheapest US course by a mile (due to two years in france) and places it in the same financial bandwagon as it would be for me to attend LSE. Berklee realistically is out of my budget and I also do not think I would want to study music at an institution, I am drawn to economics, mathematics and policy. Everyone who i have spoken to have said princeton is wayyy better than Columbia however the price difference is stark and whilst I am fortunate enough to have parents who can afford it, i do wonder if it is worth it. I don’t know much about US colleges and only applied to these 3 unis/colleges (no idea what the exact term is lol).

heres where my head is at

UCL (philo and econ, management science)

Benefits

•proximity to home ( couple hour train) but honestly this doesn’t really bother me

• i have the option to take out SFE (but i have also spent my gap year working and saving up so i can pay of tuition without a loan luckily)

• i guess i have some friends there??

Concerns

• honestly the course - not a massive fan

• also as someone who grew up in the UK and went to a pretty good school UCL is considered nothing greatly spectacular

•post graduation of course there are prestigious jobs but UCL would be a target AFTER oxbridge and LSE. additionally post grad salary isn’t that high in contrast to the US (still very high tho and ovbi the job market kinda screwed so this relies on the assumption i can bag a job)

LSE ( economic history)

benefits

• same as UCL

• i‘d say it’s a better reputed uni than UCL as it is specialised

•best in the UK for econ but that’s not my course exactly lol

Concerns

• honestly same as UCL, i have some friends at lse doing this course and quite a few who have done it and have been unable to find a job in finance and have been “forced” into a masters

• i do like the course but its not AS quantitative as i would like. i guess thats on me for applying to it but straight econ is very competitive and i kinda wanted to get in

Berklee

now that im out here typing this out i think its clearer and clearer this isnt the option for me. i think i did like the validation of getting into a music program but i don’t want a degree in music but i think i just wanted validation lmao. music has always been a pretty big part of my life and i think i will always do it on the side as a hobby and release my own music but yeah this isn’t for me. plus it’s the most expensive program even with scholarships.

Princeton

ah princeton. as a kid the only ivies i knew of were harvard, yale and princeton and i guess i got fixated on princeton as it was the closest to NY which was my childhood fixation.

Benefits

• i guess the flexibility of the program. i could major in anything and even tho rn im pretty set on econ related courses, i can do a major in anything. this contrasts a bit to the DD where SPO is specialised in social sciences but i guess i could also major in anything at columbia

• i‘m guessing i could be getting a BSc

•better rep than columbia (what ive been told)

• better rep than the UK unis

•pretty solid financial aid, it is very much possible but a stretch

• i guess we have friends in NJ??

Concerns

• moving to the US RIGHT now. as an international ) trump has scared the shit out of me like i don’t want to get detained

• US fees for four years, despite aid being solid (honestly really really good), US fees are higher than british by a bit. over four years this does add up.

• i want to work in finance or go into econ/policy post graduation. unsure if the location will hinder me or rep will carry me further

Columbia SPO dual degree

for context nyc growing up was my fixation lmao. i also have ties to france (via colonisation so boo)

Benefits

• 2 degrees from two separate institutions. this would allow me to study two different disciplines without compromising the rigor of the degree (for context if you study philo and econ for instance you learn less philo than a philo degree and less econ than an econ degree so you compromise on context for the jointness)

• price: the program rivals UK programs mostly due to the first two years in france that are cheaper than UK tuition and living costs. the Columbia portion has aid (similar to princeton) but since it’s only two years it ends up balanving

• location: having two years in france gives me some proximity to home atleast for some time, and i can always hop on a train back home (my campus is in the south but still very much possible lol). also on the south the weather is really nice but that’s not much of a concern for me. NYC is NYC and it’s got great links for finance and policy etc. also it is a dream city of mine for a very long time

• by the time i get the America i trump would be on his way out, then again a gamble no idea who‘s next but yk. also in general looking at linkedin a lot of international students have found jobs in nyc with pretty solid starting salaries (i mean i used glassdoors but yk). i’m sure princeton would be pretty similar but it’s a lot easier to find international students on this course online as i guess it is an international course??

Concerns

• despite liking this program a lot i worry that it’s not as reputed as princeton or a straight columbia course. some people say it’s a backdoor to ivies and columbia GS is not great.

• it doesn’t really bother me but it is a four year course (longer than 3 years at UK uni) AND i alr did a gap year so id be like 23 when i graduate (i feel a bit old lol)

• i guess i‘m stretching but i grew up in the Uk education system (A levels, GCSE) but if this makes any difference

• i‘m not guaranteed a job, i had no idea how hard it is to get an internship in the US and i’ve heard you need to be enrolled for one year before you can apply or something. if anyone can clarify this i would greatly appreciate it. i’m not guaranteed a job anywhere but i worry how hard it will be as an international in the US in NYC. additionally if i do move back i worry about how “legit” and respected my degree would be.

sorry for the long post and i would really appreciate some insight!! thank you in advance

Hi everyone,

Anyone just joined college but can`t make friends easily because everyone knows eachother from their previous school?Like I go to Urmston College since it has a better rep but sadly its a high school merged with the sixth form so that didn`t go too well social life wise...Like all I do is revise and I just need a break so if anyone else(preferably in year 12) wants to meet up in Eccles Park,Peel Green park anywhere really I would be happy to.I love watching Netflix,reading classic literature esp Hardy,Wilde and Dostoevsky,listening to a bunch of genres of music.I study lit,history and psych a levels.I would be excited to meet yall!Taking walks,studying at the local library,JUST talking is fine with me.