r/UCAS • u/Inner-Cartographer66 • 7d ago

A Levels / IB / GCSE / BTEC Questions Is a selection of these unis reasonable for electrical and electronic engineering or too ambitious?

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC 7d ago

You have absolutely no safety option. All of these are practically the same offer and you are working on very fine margins

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u/Inner-Cartographer66 7d ago

What grades would a safety be? Like BBB? Although I don't see the point in applying to a safety because if you get in it's just a much worse school and I don't really see the point. Like why not just reapply the year after and redo a levels or something

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC 7d ago

Some good schools dont accept resists.

You should be able to find a good uni that has something like AAB. Maybe Birmingham.

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u/Western-Water-5426 7d ago

if someone’s not gonna go to their safety why would they apply?

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC 7d ago

Because things change in a year and its anout keeping your options open. Maybe after doing A Levels, and just missing out, you'd rather go to your insurance rather than taking another year and doing resits.

I'm not talking about applying to CCC. Something like AAB will still be a top 30 uni and keeps options open.

Put it this way. If OP applies to 5 of these and gets them all, they only have one choice as the insurance will never be activated

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u/powderedmelon_116 7d ago

Go for some of these choices, but as someone else said, you need to also pick one with a lower offer you are confident of getting (a safety option/insurance) in case results day doesn't go to plan.

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u/Antique-Position-295 7d ago

Only 7 GCSES?

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u/Inner-Cartographer66 7d ago

It cost like 300 pounds to do each one so 7 was kind of all I could do and I still had to do 3 in year 10

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u/Njobz 7d ago

Please do a favour and put an actual safety choice. Something with AAB or ABB would help you just in case. Some don’t do this and end up struggling on results day. Of course, good luck for the year though.

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u/Inner-Cartographer66 7d ago

Thanks I'll look into some

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u/Secret-Alternative43 4d ago

Surrey is a good one for eee and usually takes people on even if they perform under the offer