University open days +REP.

[Immenseman]

Heya,

Is there like some sort of list or website as to where I can find a full list of all University open days? I know a lot have been already but I haven't got around to visiting any yet and would obviously like to visit some before I make decisions.

Thanks :)

[scott]

www.Opendays.com

Got an e-mail from college with that link and a huge word document with a list of them.

[kk.]

try: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/calendar.php

TSR is the best resource to be quite honest. helpful for all kinds of things

[Immenseman]

see u at york. i'll rep ya both.

[kk.]

haha would be good :P you'll be lucky to get into any open days i think, but, you can contact the uni and ask if you can visit and lie that you couldnt get to the open day date.

I visited warwick last year and they said it was fine (Y)

[Immenseman]

http://www.opendays.com/calendar/index.asp post for my own future reference.

[Bevvie]

haa thanks Jake for making this thread.
I need to go to some open days too. :)

[Immenseman]

i'm going to cry, every uni wants AAA i swear to god. i got AAAB at AS but i dropped one of my As anyway lol. tis hard to try and get that at a2 especially in lit!!!

[RandomManJay]

The best thing to do about open days is check through you universities you want to go to and which courses are available. Dont just go to any too see what they're like, you will get confused with what's there and what you actually want, I know a lot of people in my year did :S. Also, if you check on the university websites, they will show things that the openday sites wont, also you can find out if certain open days are available for your course etc. as well, makes it easier for you to pick which course you want to do and which uni you want to do it at.

I kept to using UCAS for finding out my open days, not sure if they tell you about them anymore though.

[Bevvie]

i'm going to cry, every uni wants AAA i swear to god. i got AAAB at AS but i dropped one of my As anyway lol. tis hard to try and get that at a2 especially in lit!!!
Geesh, Jake you will get it. You big nerd.
:)
Hm i dont know if i can get into UCL you need ABB i think.
And i did pretty crap for AS levels..
So i might do Art Foundation at art institute for a year then apply at UCL.

[Immenseman]

The best thing to do about open days is check through you universities you want to go to and which courses are available. Dont just go to any too see what they're like, you will get confused with what's there and what you actually want, I know a lot of people in my year did :S. Also, if you check on the university websites, they will show things that the openday sites wont, also you can find out if certain open days are available for your course etc. as well, makes it easier for you to pick which course you want to do and which uni you want to do it at.

I kept to using UCAS for finding out my open days, not sure if they tell you about them anymore though.
thanksss for advice :)

Geesh, Jake you will get it. You big nerd.
:)
Hm i dont know if i can get into UCL you need ABB i think.
And i did pretty crap for AS levels..
So i might do Art Foundation at art institute for a year then apply at UCL.
ur da geek!i!i!

[kk.]

thanksss for advice :)

ur da geek!i!i!

says the AAAB

[Immenseman]

hi i work hard though!! i know i wont get that this year, i just knowwwwwww it.

[kk.]

I got bbcd, dropped the C, and this year i got BBD, so you probs will get the same. Although, i did retake my ASs (some) and got them up to aabc

[Immenseman]

nicely done. i got a B in history but got 92% in one paper and like 63% in the other which is 4 marks off an A overall so i'm going to retake the 63% paper and should hopefully get it to like 70/80% to get the A overall and better chance of getting an A after the final year. english lit will be hard. sociology, if i do the work, will hopefully get the grade. i don't want any grades below a B.

[Bevvie]

thanksss for advice :)

ur da geek!i!i!
pfft ur more geeky!
i reckon you will get it jake if you work really hard.
i got bcdd for AS level.
gonna retake some AS and study hard for A2 and no skiving anymore.
:(

[Immenseman]

attendance below 85% already though :/

[kk.]

yeh but if you miss 1 day, youve only been there for like 10 lol.

but yeh, i got full marks in an economics one lol. 120/120 i was like :o only need 15 marks now to get that to an A, and 40 in maths :)

[Immenseman]

nicely done. first year of A* too. i won't get any of those gems :P

[kk.]

lmao actually, you could, it doesnt mean anything anyway tbh, not unless you apply to cambridge

[Immenseman]

not quite up to that standard i'm afraid ;)

[kk.]

i dont think anyone is tbh. Some of my mates got in, and they dont go for two weeks, and two weeks ago, they got a work book through the post lolol

[Immenseman]

haha would be lush to drop it into convo though "oh yeah i go cambridge"

[kk.]

ye lol

[RandomManJay]

haha would be lush to drop it into convo though "oh yeah i go cambridge"

I've got a friend who goes to cambridge, his entire family are a bunch of 'bof nofs', his older brother goes to it too and his younger sisters around bound to end up going as well considering xD!

[Black_Apalachi]

I went to 0 open days :O

[Immenseman]

I've got a friend who goes to cambridge, his entire family are a bunch of 'bof nofs', his older brother goes to it too and his younger sisters around bound to end up going as well considering xD!
A few of my mates want to go, not sure if they will get in though.

I went to 0 open days :O
I've been to one, which I was forced to by my college. They made everyone go to Plymouth but I'd rather not go to Uni then go to Plymouth just because it's too close. I want to go far away :D

[RandomManJay]

A few of my mates want to go, not sure if they will get in though.

Well my friend got AAAA in his A-Levels, and one of the exams he took in AS Physics he got a B in so he took it again and got full marks :O, Physics is like the hardest A-Level course to do as well, myself and the 2 others on the course all got U in our AS', it was epic!

[Immenseman]

haha my friend who wants to go got 12 A* at GCSE and 5 A at AS level :P

[RandomManJay]

haha my friend who wants to go got 12 A* at GCSE and 5 A at AS level :P

Crist lol, I don't think he was that smart :P. Hasn't the A* Grade been introduced in A-Level? I though it was introduced just after my last year.

[Alkaz]

www.Opendays.com (http://www.Opendays.com)

Got an e-mail from college with that link and a huge word document with a list of them.
Thanks for that link, real helpful!

[Immenseman]

now to decide which ones to attend, mhm.

[kk.]

Yorks full :(

if youve decided on your 5, apply, and any offers you get, go visit the uni's. Id recommend warwick, loved it when i went.

What kinda uni are you looking for? City or campus?

[Immenseman]

campus i want :)

[kk.]

same :3. i would visit warwick if you like campus unis then haha

[Immenseman]

we could go hand in hand.

[kk.]

:love3:

[The Professor]

Went to NTU today, their entry requirements are really low but they're still in the top 50 unis, come join me there :D

[kk.]

Went to NTU today, their entry requirements are really low but they're still in the top 50 unis, come join me there :D

APPLYING THERE TOO! and will be my nack up as i can already get in with my grades so should get unconditional : )))

[Immenseman]

immenseman prof-alex and kk. reppin'

[Jordan:A]

If you find a college/uni which you wont to go to they have a list of there open days

[Fifteen]

Am going to Plymouth uni. Open day on Saturday, just booked my train ticket :eusa_danc

[Immenseman]

yes devon m8.

[JackBuddy]

bournemouth :8

btw warwick uni is one of the only unis which doesnt have a freshers week ahahah

[kk.]

yeh, it doesnt have a freshers week, it has freshers fortnight lol

[Pyroka]

jake didnt your sister go warwick, or was that durham? either way if you went warwick you wouldnt be far from me <33333

[Immenseman]

no and no. i wna go warwick but meh, we'll see. i change every week anyway :)

[kk.]

warwick <3

[Immenseman]

but i wna do history and they say they want an a/b at gcse lang to do history there :(

[kk.]

i prob wont get an offer from them anyway D:

[Immenseman]

they want AAB i think and an E in your 4th AS for my course. I will hopefully get AAA and I got an A in my 4th AS which I dropped so I probably would it's just the damn language qualification "£$%^

[kk.]

is it just that you did english single, or didnt get the grade?

[Immenseman]

I did a language but didn't get an A/B. All I'm saying :P

[kk.]

lol, well im sure since youre AS grades were ggreat and ur predictions are too, theyll still consider you

[Immenseman]

nah, i asked them and they said it's mandatory to have the language qualification :'(

[kk.]

oh dear. well er, at least theres like 100+ other unis (Y)

[Immenseman]

BUT I DON'T WANT ANY OTHERS.

[kk.]

haha well, neither do i, but i had to accept that last year :'(

[LuketheDuke]

all any of you need to do is apply to Manchester.

its rather lovely:)

[Fifteen]

Went to Plymouth uni open day on Saturday, it is lovley, course sounds really good, nice city, decent accomodation..yepp!

Am going to University of Gloucestershire, Bournemouth and Bristol UWE Open days :p

[Immenseman]

I went on a college trip to Plymouth to see what a university was like etc. It's a nice place, far too close for my liking though. You'll love it Danni, if you decide to go there :8

[/Rossco\]

i'm going to cry, every uni wants AAA i swear to god. i got AAAB at AS but i dropped one of my As anyway lol. tis hard to try and get that at a2 especially in lit!!!


good luck getting a course that you want? straight a's you need? doing medicine or something?

[Immenseman]

nope, history. it's more about where i want to go really. i could fail miserably and still get into a uni probably :) thanks for the luck anyway :D

[RandomManJay]

nope, history. it's more about where i want to go really. i could fail miserably and still get into a uni probably :) thanks for the luck anyway :D

The Uni itself does actually get your scores, so if you're good in coursework or exams they'll know, also if you're like 5 points etc. from getting the appropriate grade, they will probably accept you if your place couldn't be filled by someone else.

[GoldenMerc]

please no one go to warwick its way to close to my house!
im hopefully going to see the one in dundee but not till next year

[Sharon]

y am i looking at this thread LMAO. i have a long wayy to go havent i jake :L

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[Immenseman]

yes shazzy... just 5 years. ross, i so wanted to go to warwick :'( even more so because you live there. idk why the midlands is so attractive to me!!!

[Black_Apalachi]

warwick <3

that makes me think of Duffy! who went to my uni btw <3

Jake if you fail, come to chester!!!! haha i don't know anyone who was rejected from chester :P

[kk.]

Avenue lol

I still need to send my app off D: I'm on like my 4th draft of my personal statement now lol.

[Immenseman]

haha i've been given back ym 3rd draft with the comment "this is excellent" yay. still going to get my step-mum and dad to look over it now. seeing as one is a department head at a school and the other is a teacher. want it sent off after half term. will be choosing my 5 this week :(

[kk.]

Lucky :( they basically said that it was generally good, but I add things which makes mr sound bad. I still need to pick my fifth uni :( don't know where though lol. Decided not Birmingham, gonna be like Durham, or somewhere else that I can't remember lol

[Immenseman]

so what are your choices

[kk.]

warwick, lancaster, york, and nottingham trent.

Warwick prob wont offer me anything
lancaster/york might,
nottingham trent should offer me an unconditional, providing they dont hate me for rejecting them last year lol

[Immenseman]

follows you

[Pyroka]

nottingham trent? DONT DO IT MAN LOL. Anywhere but that.

[kk.]

stalker alert

lmao, WHY! its good for business, one of the better ones, and outta the ones i can get an unconditional for, its the best lol. n lol at 'THAT'

[Pyroka]

yeah taht! ive o nly heard its an awful uni, im basing it off others opinions kk.

[kk.]

dont call me kk. RYAN. >.> ^.^

hopefully i wont be going there tho D:

[Pyroka]

no i wasnt calling you kk, i just sid kk LOL.

[kk.]

lies, all of them