The Programme for Tonight The UCAS Process – Mr Sexton - Brigitte Burrows Queen Mary College London What should Y12 do this year - Making the most of Year.

The Programme for Tonight The UCAS Process – Mr Sexton

- Brigitte Burrows Queen Mary College London What should Y12 do this year

- Making the most of Year 12-Mrs Wisdom

- Oxbridge – a personal perspective Jamie Gibson

- Questions –

The Application Process(use parents guide)

Choose courses Complete form on line and write personal

statement School checks, adds reference, sends to

UCAS UCAS sends to universities Universities make offer or rejects. Student accepts one firm and 1 insurance Key dates on handout

The Application Form1. Qualifications- includes unit grades of completed AS exams, increasing use of personal statement2. Courses/Institutions up to 5 institutions. NB screened applications.3. Personal Statement4. School Reference

What will happen this year Termly monitoring –target grades Students investigate choices and

prepare database of possible choices Will be shown where to look Higher Education Convention-April 09 Outside speakers Oxbridge convention Will start to fill in application form

online-July 09 Drafting Personal Statements before

end of year but this process starts now!

Role of Parents Read and digest Parents Guide Monitoring,support and encouragement-

is performance in termly reports at or above target grades?

Help in choosing courses, visiting universities

Is course highly rated?(unistats), do graduates get jobs easily?, is the course challenging enough? (Target grades) Use of Times/Guardian Good University Guides

NAGGING about deadlines

Competitive courses English, Law, Physiotherapy, Medicine,

Oxbridge, Journalism, Architecture Selecting Universities ( Russell Group

1994 group etc) Increasingly not keen on retakes. Keen to see success in AS grades-

particularly if GCSEs could have been better

Increasing use of personal statement Increasing use of extra tests

Student Finance- Costs Tuition fees not payable up front

(can do if you want) Fees Grants Bursaries Means test loans available