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ahhhh. I got an offer from Cambridge for economics, and I want to go there, but I want to study in the US too. Dont have any US offers yet (or rejections!) but I dont know what i want to do. i wish i could do both.
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<p>The easiest way to attend both would probably be to go to a US college which has a year abroad programme at Cambridge. Cambridge has a very few exchange programmes with the US too (Year at MIT comes to mind, but only for a small group of engineering students) but these are usually limited to specific subjects and/or colleges. In other words, your chances of getting on a year abroad programme are greater if you go to a US school. Since you don't have any US acceptances yet, just wait and see what you get, then check out the possibilities. </p>
<p>Alternatively choose one for undergraduate and another for a later graduate degree. Cambridge 3 years undergrad + 2 year US masters would take the same number of years as US 4 years undergrad and Cambridge 1 year masters. </p>
<p>Remember you don't have to make a descision on your Cambridge offer for months yet (even though many people do reply straight away. They can't take it away from you if you wait).</p>
<p>Congratz I got pooled for Cambridge Jesus Collge sigh**..... and I'm still waiting for LSE's International Relations and International Relations with history offer to come out did anyone here applied to LSE???</p>
<p>I just wanted to know how long each university takes to review each application. </p>
<p>I do not know if this is weird and would like to know if it happened to anyone else:
I sent my UCAS application to all my universities (imperial, edinburgh, manchester, bristol, Birmingham) on December 20th (pretty late but still..) and on the 30th Imperial sends me a reply stating that they have received the application.
On the 3rd they send another mail asking what subects i am taking in the 12th and what exams i am going to sit.
I feel the question was quited weird coz my referee stated in the application the subjects and scores i was going to get and I had also mentioned what exam i was going to write at the end of 12th. And another student from my school who also applied to Imperial did not receive such a question from Imperial or any of his other universities. This incident surprised me a lot.</p>
<p>University of Birmingham also asked me the same set of questions that Imperial had asked. </p>
<p>Just wanted to know if this was a way of rechecking that the application was right or is there something seriously wrong with my applications. </p>
<p>Also, How long does Imperial usually take to send out a decision for an application coz i will give up my US plans only if i get into imperial (that is why i applied for 2 majors to imperial - mechanical and aeronautical engineering).</p>
<p>Cheers
Sudu</p>
<p>BTW: CONGRATS LADY LOU FOR THE ACCEPTANCE TO CAMBRIDGE.</p>
<p>Firstly, don't worry about the forms, I'm assuming it is just a formality for international students. UCAS is pretty efficient and I doubt anything is wrong. </p>
<p>Universities may not let you know for a few months yet, or they may tell you tomorrow. No one can really say, but around now is the time when most offers/rejections come in, but as you app was sent quite late you may have to wait longer. Don't fret, UCAS will email you whenever there is a change of status to your UCAS track, and so you will find out immediately.</p>
<p>Doing some sort of exchange is very much on my mind at the moment, i think i've also put a division in my head between getting into HYPS and the other 4 colleges I have applied to. If I was to get into the 'lower ranked' four, I think I would take cambridge, because i dont feel that their international prestige is really comparable, but if I am fortunate enough to be accepted at HYPS (which is unlikely) then I will have to make quite a difficult decision.</p>
<p>I'm also lucky to have an offer for Emmanuel at Cambridge, which has very good links with Harvard (the founder of Harvard was an Emma alum) and they offer two year, full fees scholarships (they seem to pay everything!) for a number of students, where i could do an MBA, JD, or just enrol as a 'special student' and take any courses. I have to admit that looks very appealing, although i don't know the difficulty of getting onto that scheme, although I'm assuming it is very competitive.</p>
<p>Ah decisions decisions. Cambridge also presents a problem, becuase I really like the university and my college and the tutors, i'm just not sure 3 years of just economics is really for me.</p>
<p>I have great news (well....i am a loser)......i have just been rejected by Imperial College of London for Aeronautical Engineering. </p>
<p>Waiting for my decision on Mechanical Engineering with one year abroad.</p>
<p>Reason : Clearly stated in their site that they do not accept Indian students. I have no idea why I applied to Imperial. But then again i am a loser.</p>
<p>They dont accept Indian students with XIIth Indian board qualificaions..they require A-levels/SATs/APs/IBs...According to them, they consider Indian XIIth qualifications as AS-level(source:Oxford University Web-Site)..this would b the probable cause of ur rejection..</p>
<p>i think its the qualifications as poster above you stated. Thats a main difference between UK and US undergrad; it UK we do 13 years at high school, so uni is only 3 years whilst in US they do 12 years high school and 4 years undergrad. A number of other countries also only do 12 years, which means that you would be a year behind ect.</p>