I am so excited to share all my university experience with you on my blog, I have done a few posts already so check them out here, I have one on open days and writing your personal statement.
The very first thing I started to work on as soon as I started my second year of college in September, I started working on my personal statement! Don't leave this to the last minute, it took me about 4 drafts till I got it spot on and signed off. While your doing this also start your UCAS application, this is where you need your grades, choices, personal information etc. Personally I didn't want to send my application off until I had visited all my university open days, which is another key reason you need to start as soon as possible because of deadlines!
I believe I sent my application off on the 21st November, the reason why I know the exact dates is because I am forever on Twitter! I double checked my application over and over, just to make sure it was perfect! I was having nightmares about thinking I uploaded the wrong draft of my personal statement; to say this university application is stressful is an understatement, it took over my life!
The choices -
In the end, I only had 4 choices, I didn't want to be one of those people that put down a choice for the sake of filling up how many I could have. So I stuck to 4 choices, and 3 universities that I would love to go to whatever happened. These were:
- Birmingham City University to do Marketing
- Birmingham City University to do Business with marketing
- Manchester Metropolitan University to do business with marketing
- Bournemouth University to do Business - then to specialise and do marketing in the second year
Once seeing all the universities I knew that Birmingham City was where I wanted to go, and I knew the marketing course was right up my street! The university was lovely, accommodation was brilliant and the course was perfect for me. I didn't have a fault about the university.
The offers -
This is where the application drove me insane! I was checking the UCAS track probably 5 times a day, every time I got an email about saw it was for a newsletter instead of a track update, my heart sank!
Although I got my first offer the day after my application got sent off, I didn't receive any track emails I logged onto my track and screamed when it said I had received an offer. This offer was from Manchester Met and was conditional. However, I read the letter and realised that they had viewed me as an exceptional applicant for the course, and if I put this as my firm choice it would be made unconditional.
Then on the 5th of December, I received my offer from Bournemouth university which was unconditional and I was also given an Excellence Scholarship for my first year if I accept this offer.
Finally came the day, nearly a month later (12th December) I received my offer from BCU for Marketing, which was conditional but the same as MMU, if I put this as my firm choice then it gets made unconditional! Which I am over the moon about, I am so so excited to know that I am definitely going to university, and to get 3 unconditional offers and one from my 1st choice is a massive weight lifted off my shoulders.
I am yet to reply to these offers, as I don't want to do it too soon but then again I don't want to do it too early! I think I have a problem with committing!
So all in all my whole UCAS application from sending it off, to getting my 4th and final offer took 1 month and 22 days! Which it's too bad going, I thought it was going to take at least 3 months knowing my luck.
Anyways I will keep you all updated on my next steps to university!
Shelby x
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