[foxysarah92]

Who has done theres for this year =]

[Ethan.k]

Well all the schools near me have done theirs and this week people have been getting conditional offers but we still havn't done ours:O :L next week i think =/ :L

[MTVN]

Should have mine completed next week.

[Ethan.k]

Today a friend was saying that they would really love to go to England to study and I use to think that but changed my mind...but today I feel i might apply to study in England =/ choices are soo hard to make!

[Shaun]

just need to check my personal statement over with someone, and fill in all of my qualifications.

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by Shaun

just need to check my personal statement over with someone, and fill in all of my qualifications.

Before I wrote my personal statement I was thinking OMG how am I going to be able to write 4000 or whatever amount it was characters about myself but I surprised myself by being way over lol

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

Before I wrote my personal statement I was thinking OMG how am I going to be able to write 4000 or whatever amount it was characters about myself but I surprised myself by being way over lol

Yeah, I had to cut mine down from 5500 to 4000 today.

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah, I had to cut mine down from 5500 to 4000 today.

Awh its much worse trying to cut it down that write the orginal thing I think and I think mines was something like 5564...where are you looking to go to univeristy at?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

Awh its much worse trying to cut it down that write the orginal thing I think and I think mines was something like 5564...where are you looking to go to univeristy at?

Yeah, definitely, I hated having to take some of the better bits out lol.

Umm I think I'm applying to Nottingham, Loughborough, Kent, Lancaster and East Anglia, although I'm not completely sure yet. How about you?

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah, definitely, I hated having to take some of the better bits out lol.

Umm I think I'm applying to Nottingham, Loughborough, Kent, Lancaster and East Anglia, although I'm not completely sure yet. How about you?

:L lol thats quite the list you have there Queens is my only choice so far but maybe univeristy of Ulster or liverpool if i decide to go abroad?

[Smithy]

I kept going over the character limit with my PS :'(

I coulda sent it off earlier this week, but my arsehole of a teacher still hasn't finished my refrence

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

:L lol thats quite the list you have there Queens is my only choice so far but maybe univeristy of Ulster or liverpool if i decide to go abroad?

Yeah, thought I might as well apply to 5 seeing as that's the maximum, gives plenty of choice

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah, thought I might as well apply to 5 seeing as that's the maximum, gives plenty of choice

yep that's actually a wise idea- i never thought of that

lol @ smithy tell your teacher to hurry the Feck up, we have to pay our £21 to apply to UCAS and i would have forgot if it wasn't for this thread

[foxysarah92]

Ah i pay and send and now just waiting on the reference :P i am actually well excited cause of it x

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by foxysarah92

Ah i pay and send and now just waiting on the reference :P i am actually well excited cause of it x

ohh your further than me what uni's are you hoping to go to and for what courses?

[alc09]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

but today I feel i might apply to study in England

Anything to get out of Ireland, eh?

Can't blame you.

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by alc09

Anything to get out of Ireland, eh?

Can't blame you.

lol well i dont mind Ireland, just think it could be good fun mainly, not follow the crowd completely by going to Belfast:L:L where you from?

[alc09]

Only joking mate.

Wiltshire.

[Tom]

Waste of time getting qualifications when you don't even need them (as loads of people do)

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

lol @ smithy tell your teacher to hurry the Feck up, we have to pay our £21 to apply to UCAS and i would have forgot if it wasn't for this thread

ik, he's a bellend, he's been doing them in alphabetical order and one a day, he's such a fail

[King Gizzard]

I was unsure of going to Uni in the first place, then all this UCAS ****e put me off altogether

I'd rather get in contact with the Uni myself

[Ethan.k]

Originally Posted by alc09

Only joking mate.

Wiltshire.

its okay

Originally Posted by Tom

Waste of time getting qualifications when you don't even need them (as loads of people do)

well you obviously need them in more than one place on this planet otherwise they wouldnt be there... and just because one person thinks you dont need them im sure theres at least one other person who would say you do

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Ethan.k

well you obviously need them in more than one place on this planet otherwise they wouldnt be there... and just because one person thinks you dont need them im sure theres at least one other person who would say you do

degrees are worthless unless you choose to work in that particular field, and most people end up with a silly degree they're never going to do anything with and £20k debt to go with it

I've worked in HR and currently a sub-manager dealing with a million xmas temp applications and interviews, I don't care about qualifications apart from the basics, don't know many people who do, experience, work ethic and potential is where it all counts. Its a misconception that crap qualifications = crap job and vice versa

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Tom

degrees are worthless unless you choose to work in that particular field, and most people end up with a silly degree they're never going to do anything with and £20k debt to go with it

I've worked in HR and currently a sub-manager dealing with a million xmas temp applications and interviews, I don't care about qualifications apart from the basics, don't know many people who do, experience, work ethic and potential is where it all counts. Its a misconception that crap qualifications = crap job and vice versa

I agree that it's shouldnt be seen as obligatory to go to University. You end up with a load of people desperately trying to scrape any grades at A-Level just so they can get in somewhere, and then 3 years down the line they're unemployed with a sh*t load of debt.

However, statistically graduates do get paid a lot more over the course of their lives than non-graduates do. If you want to end up in a high-end job than you will, in the majority of cases, need a degree to get there.

Degrees aren't the best option for everyone, but they're not worthless

[Tom]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I agree that it's shouldnt be seen as obligatory to go to University. You end up with a load of people desperately trying to scrape any grades at A-Level just so they can get in somewhere, and then 3 years down the line they're unemployed with a sh*t load of debt.

However, statistically graduates do get paid a lot more over the course of their lives than non-graduates do. If you want to end up in a high-end job than you will, in the majority of cases, need a degree to get there.

Degrees aren't the best option for everyone, but they're not worthless

As I said the worth of a degree comes down to what you do with it. If you go into something related to your degree then thats where you go further, but if you go and do a degree then work in retail then its a bit of a waste. Too many people just end up doing what they did at college (Sociology, Law etc) where to get a half decent job out of it you need to do post grad courses whereas if you do something different like Sports Rehabilitation then you can go straight into a job

One of the reasons the stats you cite show graduates going into higher paid jobs is because of those who are genuinely there for careers and have high aspirations