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Sunday, July 17, 2011

RE: Share your experience with UCAS


Customary email and password combination entry. Check. 
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Nigerian Spam scam involving a friend in dire need and/or a monetary inheritance. Very original.

Skimming down through the flotsam and jetsam slowly accumulating in my inbox, an email catches my eye. It's from UCAS. Subject: 'RE: Share your experience with UCAS'.


Here's my condensed overview of the UCAS experience:
  • Researched courses, scoured prospectuses.
  • Drafted, edited and trimmed a Personal Statement (PS). Tedious.
  • Gratefully rallied my PS back and forth to an easy-going teacher. Tennis.
  • United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT). Nice little computerized test in a not so nice location.
  • Frantically submitted four strategic university choices before October deadline. Geography.
  • Played the waiting game. Number crunching for BMAT keeping me occupied.
  • BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT). Rigorous written test required by Oxbridge, UCL and Imperial. 
  • Again, I played the waiting game. Anxiety setting in at this stage…
  • GAME OVER: Interview offer from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Christmas present.
  • Booked cheapest, no-frills, return flight to Stansted, LDN. Aer Arann, no doubt.
  • Eerily boarded first flight to take off the tarmac since Manx2 Belfast - Cork tragedy. Spooky.
  • Challenging interview. Winding icy lanes and Romanesque architecture. Beautiful place.
  • King's College London conditional offer arrives! Insurance.
  • St. Andrews interview invitation! Bad timing; mocks & personal reasons.
  • Rejection from Uni. of Bristol w/o interview. Considering its lax entry requirements, tad surprised.
  • Accepted offers and 'firmed' my no.1 choice. Insurance offers used as scapegoats.
  • Tore through thick envelopes concerning finance and accommodation rigmarole. S'all sinking in!
  • Shared my experience with fellow prospective Undergrads and 'Freshers' over online student forums. TSR & NMMed.


That, was my experience with UCAS.

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