Admissions Decisions: Summary & Reflection
United Kingdom (Geology)
Durham University - offer received! Feb. 9
Imperial College London - rejected
University of Birmingham - offer received! Jan. 20
University College LondonĀ - offer received! Mar. 31
University of St. Andrews - offer received! Dec. 21
Obviously very happy with my UK offers, was a bit salty about Imperial because of the whole predicted grades fiasco, but then apparently they ask for interviews as well which is just yikes and I donāt think I would have done well in that anyways.Ā
First choice right now is St Andrews, but because I applied for first year Iām going to call and see if they can change my offer requirements to that of second year so in case I donāt meet second year requirements I can go to my insurance (UCL) instead of having to stay four years in St Andrews (because of the way the UCAS system works... if you know you know). If I canāt do that... Maybe UCL will be my first choice and Durham my second.
Canada
McGill University (Faculty of Arts - Undeclared) - offer received! Jan. 20
McGill University (Faculty of Science - Geology) - rejected
Nothing much to say about this, McGill was generally fuss free. My offer is basically unconditional so my dad told me to pay the deposit as a kind of ultimate backup. Will probably end up studying Geography + Economics if I do end up going there.
United States
Boston UniversityĀ - rejected
Cornell UniversityĀ - rejectedĀ
Johns Hopkins UniversityĀ - rejected
Rice UniversityĀ - rejected
Stanford UniversityĀ - rejected
University of California: BerkeleyĀ - rejected
Yale UniversityĀ - rejected
Ha! All Iām salty about is the amount of money I spent applying. I mean, I basically sabotaged myself by not really pushing for my mid year reports to be sent I guess. Iām happy with my essays and all that, anything different to what I sent simply wouldnāt have been me and I guess that Iām okay that these American schools swiped left on me. I got less enthusiastic about all American schools after Trump won and I just see it spiraling out of control. Then my parents told me that if I went to America my brother would too.. And there was no way I was allowing my brother, who is very big and very dark, live there. Nah.Ā
