UCAS申请攻略——牛津、剑桥，如何不被拒？

In our last episode we looked at the student who took many re-drafts and much pain before they realised their dream of applying for a British university. In the future we shall look at the problems associated with waiting too long to apply. Today lets us look at the opposite example of when students apply too quickly. The deadline for International students applying to British universities is not until June ahead of a September start. So if you want to study as an undergraduate in the UK in September 2014 you have many months for us to work together to help you. The only exception is for Medicine and for all the places at the traditional universities of Oxford and Cambridge. If you want to apply for any of these courses you need to complete every section of the UCAS form by the 15th October. Now applying for these courses needs special advice, particularly Oxford and Cambridge who have interviews for every place they offer. One crucial element of this is simple - you must ask yourself if you are certain that you want to apply to them. First of all Medicine at any university, and all courses Oxford and Cambridge, all have many more applicants than there are places - as such many more people are disappointed than can be made happy with the offer of a place. This can be seen as a rejection by lots of sensitive young people and can lead to weaker performance throughout the rest of the year having received this news. Secondly applying for these courses necessitates a faster submission deadline than is normal and lets think a little about that today. Completing the form takes time, you need to register, to outline all of your education history, to select courses which involves dialogue with your school and/or agents, to write a personal statement which can take a long time (remember the poor young man from my last article!) and receive a reference from school. Like any process that involves soul searching this can fill any amount of time - give a man a month, a year or ten years and they could still think of ways they could have improved their application. So finishing it quickly is very difficult. Let me tell a secret story that illustrates this… Three years ago I was working as a UCAS tutor for an international school in the UK. One intelligent young lady named Daisy, a Chinese national with the typical numeracy and work ethic, had received considerable encouragement from her family that she should apply to Oxford University. As a school we were not fully comfortable with this, though a good student she was not exceptional and was bound for disappointment when Oxford inevitably did not offer her a place. We were also nervous because her application wasn't significantly advanced as the end of September approached. As educators we recognise that parents spend significant sums of money on their children's education and deserve to have their views heard and respected. Likewise we must have the confidence to advise where we can see the parents are in danger of making a mistake. For example you pay money for your first class plane ticket and deserve to be treated well and listened to but even then the pilot would be silly to take guidance from a passenger about how to fly the plane. Even if you pay for something, it does not make you the expert! So the school was very worried that the student would not be well served by an Oxford application. First of all they would be rejected, second of all meeting the 15th October deadline would mean a rushed application and this might result in none of the other four universities offering Daisy a place. What we wanted to happen was for slowly the parents to be persuaded to our line of thinking and to agree that Daisy should deliberately miss the deadline in order to spend more time earning a good place at another university (just not Oxford!). So we tried to talk to the parents, only they couldn't speak Chinese so we had to work through interpreters. As the 15th October deadline loomed still the parents could not be persuaded. They insisted on Daisy applying to Oxford by 15th October. What could the school do? They could refuse to write a reference and win the argument but that would be rather underhand. They could agree to support the application ahead of 15th October even though it clashed with their conscience? What to do? Tell me, what would you do? And dear reader, now i can also tell you the answer of what they really did. Daisy sent her application by 15th October. Oxford rejected her. So did three other universities. Daisy had only one place for university and not one of her favourite courses. In the end she decided to pull out of UCAS and to re-apply the next year. The parents won the battle against the school but lost the war. A sad story. So my advice is be careful if you are applying for the 15th October. Be sure your application is strong enough or it could lead to significant disappointment. And listen to the experts. They have seen every example before and only want to help the student no matter what!

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