Choices

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• Students can apply for up to FIVE different courses. 

• Use the 5 choices wisely.

• By this point, you should know the specific area of which you wish to study. Therefore, your course selections should all be within a similar field of subject matter. 

• Course research must be done thoroughly.

• Look carefully at the subject entry requirements. 

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What makes a good application?

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• Good results and predicted grades

• Personal statement is well written – well structured, with correct grammar, etc.

• Courses have been demonstrably well researched.

• Work experience, hobbies, etc.

• Wider reading, listening, interest in cinema, museums, art, etc. outside the specification

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Application sent - what happens next?

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Students will receive either: 

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• An unconditional offer

• A conditional offer

• Unsuccessful application

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Accepting offers

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• Once all offers have been received you will then have to select one firm course and one as an insurance.

• The insurance, as mentioned above, is usually a fall back option in the event that you do not reach your predicted grades.

 

High Ability Students Applying to Leading Universities

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The Russell Group represents 24 leading UK universities committed to:

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• Maintaining the very best research

• An outstanding teaching and learning experience

• Unrivalled links with business and the public sector

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The names of these universities are:

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• University of Birmingham

• University of Bristol

• University of Cambridge

• Cardiff University

• Durham University

• University of Edinburgh

• University of Exeter

• University of Glasgow

• Imperial College London

• King's College London

• University of Leeds

• University of Liverpool

• London School of Economics and Political Science

• University of Manchester

• Newcastle University

• University of Nottingham

• University of Oxford

• Queen Mary University of London

• Queen’s University Belfast

• University of Sheffield

• University of Southampton

• University College London

• University of Warwick

• University of York

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• Choosing your A-Levels

• Choosing your A-level (or equivalent) subjects carefully to study at a leading university.

• Universities look for good grades as well as grades in the right subjects for the chose degree course

• If you are not sure what you want to study at university yet, it is important to choose subjects which will leave as many options open as possible.

• Some A Level subjects are called ‘facilitating’ subjects because choosing them at A Level leaves open a wide range of options for university study. These facilitating subjects are:

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• Biology

• Chemistry

• English literature

• Geography

• History

• Physics

• Modern and classical languages

• Maths and further maths

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• If you do not know what you want to study at university then it is a really good rule of thumb that taking two facilitating subjects will keep a wide range of degree courses open to you.