I note according to the St Andrews tracker available there, there are three offers so far from this cycle, all received on 11/2, all International applicants, and they submitted in August or September (last was 9/23).
Combined with the information above, it seems pretty clear 11/2 was likely the first wave, and it looks like it was probably mostly, if not all, people who had applied around a month or more before that date.
I’ll be curious to see if there is a regular cycle like that–for example, if maybe more will come 11/9, or something similar.
In fact another just showed up! 11/6 offer, 9/25 application.
Edit: Two more, 9/20 and 9/26.
I’ll stop giving the play by play, but I am going to suggest perhaps they are still working through the ones that were a month or more old as of 11/2. So it may still be a bit before October applications start getting decisions.
DD attends boarding school in US is applying to both UK (Cambridge, Bartlett-UCL, Manchester, Nottingham, Loughborough) and some US colleges for Architecture. Luckily she has dual citizenship and I now live here so will be a home student.
All UK apps submitted due to the Cambridge early deadline.
Applying to two countries is pretty much 2 sets of focus. UK PS is why this course so one has to be able to show true passion. APs are also king for UK…
I submitted my application on October 23, but just today on my portal, St. Andrews requested that I upload my transcripts and high school profile (even though I did on the Common App, I guess they just didn’t download properly?) Does this mean I will have to wait 2-4 weeks to hear back from St. Andrews from October 23 or from today when I uploaded the required docs?
I don’t know if anyone here will actually have enough inside information about their process to answer that definitively. But personally, I would not assume you are starting over, absent knowing exactly the sequence of steps they take and how long each step takes.
I just got my acceptance for IR! My email says the course length is “five years” but I’m a bit confused as I thought st Andrews is a 4 year program. Does anybody know what this means?
I know they have some 5 year programs in other Schools (where you get what we would call a masters), but I didn’t think IR did that. So . . . complete mystery to me.
Did they give you a course code?
Edit: By the way, I understand you applied 10/7, and it is 11/9, so we seem to be still looking at about a month to get through the process (at the soonest).
Some program offer the 4-year degree AND the 5-year “Masters” version. Worth checking. It is confusing. My son did a 4-year program but his degree is called a masters.
I got my MA in the UK and the application process was much simpler than it seems to be for high school kids applying to bachelors programs. I really don’t envy you guys.
But yeah, my masters course only lasted a year so I can totally see how just tacking a year on at the end of a bachelors course, if getting a masters makes the most sense for whatever program you’re in. I’ve also heard that some BA programs take three years and some MA programs take two.
The tracker is a live Excel spreadsheet where people can report decisions. In this case, The Student Room’s St Andrews forum has set up a tracker as a Google doc:
Oh - that is do kind of you! My son is applying to UK colleges and I gave several questions:
looks like UCAS only wants to see the final exam scores, not the course grades, correct? Do we still send to them the transcript to help the decision?
the AAA requirements- those are based on the final exam only, not the course grade?
which major did your son pursue and was it hard to find job offers in the US with degree from U of Edinburgh?
last question: when did you hear about your offer? My son applied on October 12th, will he have to wait till April 30th like the website says?
Thank you!!
heyy! applied to oxford, umanchester, UCL, KCL, and edinburgh already have conditional offer to manchester. will update when rest of decisions are out!
