<p>Hi, I am applying to both British and American colleges at the same time. The deadline to reply to the British colleges is probably before early April. Personally I prefer a college education in the US but I do not know if I will be admitted by any of the colleges in the states. Is it possible to ask the British colleges to wait or do I have to take the risk? Does anyone else have the same problem? Thanks!</p>
<p>When you learn where you have been accepted in the UK, if you are still waiting to hear from places in the US, contact the UK universities and ask them how to proceed.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I’ve applied to UK and US colleges too, as a British citizen. I already have my UK offers - if you apply before the January deadline you general get your offers before March. Even if you applied after the January deadline, you will still get your offers on a rolling basis but you don’t have to respond to them until May. So it is absolutely fine to wait until you have US decisions and then accept or reject your UK offers.</p>
<p>Note - if you have already heard back from all the UK places you applied to, the deadline for responding is May 5th.</p>
<p>I hope this helps, and good luck :)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your answers.</p>
<p>portugueseninja.: Are you sure that you can wait until May? I read it at UCAS a few months ago that you pretty much have to respond within 3 weeks or 1 month after all universities have made decisions. I’m pretty confused at the moment. :/</p>
<p>no, the deadline is defnitely may, although for me its the 4th…
still, that leaves plenty of time.</p>
<p>by the way, portugese ninja, which is your first choice, the UK or the States?</p>
<p>Definitely the US is my top choice, but as I need a lot of financial aid and my scores aren’t brilliant, I had to apply to the UK as a backup. I will attend Cardiff University if I don’t get into the US. What about you?</p>
<p>It’s definitely May, I checked on the UCAS website :)</p>
<p>Thank you guys, that was really helpful. I don’t have to worry about it anymore. </p>
<p>I didn’t have a preference at first. It all depended on which universities I got in. Since I didn’t get into any of the reaches in the UK, I’m pretty hoping the better for the US. I will attend either Bristol of Manchester if I don’t get in any US university. </p>
<p>I’ve never been to the UK or the US so all I know about these universities is their rankings, but there are so many of them, do you know which one of them is more reliable? Thanks!</p>
<p>yeah the US is definitely my first choice! if i don’t get into any of them, i’ll probably go to LSE, but it’d be nice if i don’t have to work so hard for my a-levels in the summer…</p>
<p>empereur, where are you applying from?
i’ve sort of had to compare the US and the UK so many times, i’m almost an expert on it…
but more reliable? rankings? i guess you sort of just get a general feel…i’m not going to lie, rankings do play a part in my own personal preference, and i sort of amalgamate all of the rankings i see, you start to get a general picture…so yeah, just look at a few. </p>
<p>but i would personally rank a lot of the US unis above the UK ones, despite rankings say otherwise, just because most of them are really nice (all the London unis in my opinion are awfully ugly), and you don’t have to specialise…i couldn’t cope with doing straight economics for 3 years, it would have killed me…</p>
<p>1) I believe that you are able to call up the admissions office and notify them that you will not be attending in the fall, as places usually give out a few more offers than places they won’t be nearly as frought with rage asone might think.
…If they refuse that then…
2) You can tank one of your A-levels, so that your offer will not be picked up.
…If that doesn’t work…
3) Just go the the US, it’s not like they are going to stop you at the border or anything.</p>
<p>I personally think that the LSE is better than many of the Ivies, its reputation is way better. A funny thing, I actually FORGOT to apply to the LSE. After I used up all the entry points I realised that I committed a huge mistake but they wouldn’t consider my application after I already applied to 5 unis :/</p>
<p>By the way, since you are considering the LSE as your backup, you are probably thinking about HYP right?</p>
<p>I’m applying from China/Sweden. I’m a Chinese citizen but I went to high school in Sweden. I’m really not sure about the rankings since they are so different from each other. For instance, the LSE is ranked no.3 in the UK or something by Times British ranking but like no.15 in the UK by the QS world unis ranking, and Manchester is ranked the 24th in the UK according to Times and 6th according to the QS. I’m extremely confused at the moment, any suggestions?</p>
<p>yeah, LSE for economics probably is better than most of the ivies…with the exception of HY and possibly Princeton…the thing is though, i didn’t want to stay in London, and the reputation of life at LSE is just dull…people don’t really go out, everyone is totally career driven and boring, and everyone you meet is similar to yourself because everyone does economics or politics or history or law…you don’t get like literary types, or artistic or musical people really…</p>
<p>and that is a generalisation but as they say most generalisations are derived from truisms. </p>
<p>and you forgot to apply to LSE? obviously it isn’t very important to you then haha, so no worries…going to the states is better anyway. </p>
<p>and yeah…HYP (just got a likely letter from columbia, which was nice), but i don’t think i have a chance at HY…hoping for P. </p>
<p>and wow thats an interesting combination…i would definitely play up on the swedish part in your app because not many people apply from there…as for china…you know…
in answer to your question, it varies because of the different criteria…again, to really get where a uni is in terms of rankings you have to look at quite a few and sort of average them. </p>
<p>one of the reasons why LSE is so low in some rankings is that it does not offer many subjects (again just economics/politics/history/law etc), and that takes away from some scores. also, if student satisfaction is involved, many people at LSE hate being there and so they receive a low score. graduate prospects, on the other hand, LSE is the best in england for. so if a particular ranking weights that heavily, LSE is going to shoot up. </p>
<p>in my view, LSE is the 3rd best uni in the UK academically wise (for economics/politics/history/law) but you won’t have much fun there. manchester proably lies somewhere between 10 and 20. </p>
<p>wow that was a long post.</p>
<p>That’s pretty much what I heard about Harvard as well, everyone is so career driven and competition is fierce, dunno if it’s true though. </p>
<p>About applying to LSE, well, had it been of great importance had I not forgotten it 
I did put the Swedish part in my app, hope it helps, but the downside is, many unis think that I’m Swedish and living in Sweden atm so they ask a bunch of Scandinavians to interview me and so on, just a bit odd that I have to explain every time so that they would find a new alumnus to do the interview. :P</p>
<p>How would you rank KCL and Bristol, especially Bristol when it comes to economics/management. I find the rankings to be extremely misleading, again. And yes, that was a pretty long post.</p>
<p>I’m doing this too, this year. I’ve already heard back from 4 of my 5 unis, and I have an interview for the 5th next week. Once you’ve heard from all of them you get a date to reply to offers, but it’s usually not for a while. It’s definitely not before April 1st, so don’t worry. What are you applying for?</p>
<p>Also, by the way, UCL is actually prettier than you might imagine.</p>
<p>I can’t rank Bristol or Manchester against each other with regards to the economics stuff but with general rankings Bristol is considered ‘better’ than Manchester, but not by much. They are both great schools. I did apply to Manchester but got rejected, it would have been my top choice in the UK. I lived in Manchester briefly and I LOVE the city, and because there are two massive universities there the city is literally overflowing with students - very lively and fun place to live. Bristol is a good town too but more expensive and perhaps a bit more posh.</p>
<p>LSE is a fantastic school as well, but it depends if you want the traditional college experience - I don’t believe you could experience that really at a London uni. Manchester isn’t a traditional campus uni either, it’s more spread out.</p>
<p>I am applying for Economics and Management in Manchester, Bristol, UCL, KCL and Oxford, got rejected by UCL (didnt check their requirements, lol) and Oxford and got offers from Manchester and Bristol, still waiting for the decision from KCL. </p>
<p>The University of Manchester appears to be extraordinarily nice, though I’m a bit worried about the safety there, you know with all the hooligans and stuff, but it gotta be safer than the US.</p>
<p>I would say that Bristol is a better school that Manchester. In fact, Bristol is the school with the lowest acceptance rate, believe it or not, simply because a huge amount of people apply there who are never going to get in. If you are surprised its not Oxbridge, consider people who have no chance of getting in, they are much less likely to want to face an interview. KCL is alright, but I would say Bristol is better for Econ, its one of the best (top 10)</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s anything to worry about in Manchester regarding safety. It’s no less safe than any other major city. I think that if it comes to choosing between Bristol and Manchester, if there are no big differences in the courses that you want to take, then it would just be better to visit both and see which you like best. The campuses are pretty different so it would likely just come down to personal preference.</p>
<p>I see, thanks for the help everyone! I think I get a much better picture now.</p>
<p>Hi Emperur,</p>
<p>You might find this interesting:</p>
<p><a href=“Rough Guide Of The Best & Most Reputable Universities In The UK - Education - Nigeria”>http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-141689.0.html</a></p>