University of Bristol

Step 1: Selection of career



This step is probably the most important because it is what will determine our future and set the guidelines of the following steps. Each race has a different entrance requirements, specific subjects, and in some cases even a initial admission tests check whether we have acquired a basic knowledge. As international students, we must also take into account the linguistic requirements that the university, depending on the degree corresponding to want to study faculty.

We recommend that you choose a career based on your tastes and expectations and leave aside everything else. Sometimes it is not easy and can end up being influenced by family or our friends, but you have to keep in mind that you are the one who will study the race, and will exercise it in the future. So pick something you're passionate about, or at least going to enjoy studying. In addition, we suggest you choose the race (or at least the study area) before the university itself. Sometimes, either as a matter of marketing, appearance on the resume or personal beliefs, we tend to want to study at a specific college at all costs, regardless offering courses for this academic year, or how good college in a specific subject.

If you still have questions or do not have too light, you can ask the following: What job I want after I graduate? What I do best? What kind of subjects arouse interest me?

Once you know with certainty and determination in what area or areas of study you want to move, we have to make a small selection of 5 universities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) in which we would like to study. For example, if we want to study economics, we find a wide range of universities offering this race. Do not be fooled by the title or name of the race, as the content of Economics at the University A might not be the same as in college B, resulting in two completely different races, who only share the name.

One way is to look at select universities composition career interests us and go discarding those whose program does not convince us. A website that can help us filter universities is Unistats, where certain statistics on each race at a particular university are collected, which is very interesting to see, for example, satisfaction ratings by students or in which sectors you can work after graduation. It seems complicated and tedious, but quiet, you can count on us for us to process all information and us advise you.



Step 2: Send request



After passing the first hurdle, we are ready to send our request to universities that we have chosen. This is great to do it at the end of 1 high school, one year in advance. Usually they will ask the following:

Registration data: will introduce our name, address and date of birth. We will generate a username and password that will allow us to automatically access the registration form.



Personal Information: In addition to the data provided for the registration, we ask additional information to enable universities to determine the rate you should pay in case of being accepted. Verify that all information provided is true and correct. Otherwise, this could cause delays in processing the request.



Selection of courses and universities: Here we choose the courses and universities we decided in Step 1. The order does not matter at all, and we can choose to 5. For each option have to say when you want to start the course and whether you live in a home different from the usual yours. As a note, we will say that you can not choose the University of Oxford and Cambridge at a time, only one of them. If querermos study medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or veterinary science, we can only select up to 4 options of the same, instead of 5 and may use the remaining option in another race than repeated in the 4 options above.



Educational history: Universities need to know where you studied and what you are studying so they can admit you. Try to get all the notes you have from the ESO. If you are studying or are you going to start studying 2nd year, enter the name of the subjects of 1st Baccalaureate (do not need to be translated), with their qualifications. It also includes the name of the subjects of 2nd year, with outstanding rating, which will decide in May or June, depending on the school or college. You can add any other educational degree that you find relevant, especially concerning language titles. If in doubt, you can always contact us.



Work History: Basically we enter information about our working lives, if we had any. If you can not, leave the empty section, but you have to mark it as done to continue with the application.



Personal Statement: The part of sending more students feared request. You have to convince selected that you are the right person universities, and why they should choose you as one of his students. Should also comment on why we chose your college and career in question. Thus, those responsible for admissions may know you a little better. We do special emphasis on this point in our advisory service, as it is one of the most critical parts of the application process.



References: You need at least one reference from a tutor or professor who knows you well enough to recommend.



There are three different deadlines for submitting applications: October 15, 15 of January and 24 March. If we have not met the initial terms, you may have opened a second term without priority, according to career and college. It is very important to check which of these dates is the race in which we are interested and also see the start date, as not all academic courses start in September or October.



Step 3: Wait to receive offers



By submitting the request, currently do not have to do anything else until we start receiving bids from colleges that we chose. Although we usually tend to warn the email or postal address provided, we can check at any time what results we obtained in real time by UCAS Track. We can access this valuable utility once we receive at our home the welcome letter.

Within this utility, we can find 5 different status on where is our request to each university:

Conditional Offer: This type of offer means that the university always accept us as we fulfill certain requirements at the end of the current academic year. For example, we may ask an average true, or just a minimum score on a specific subject such as chemistry.



Unconditional offer: We met all academic requirements and college has accepted us. You may ask us for a test to verify our results, or imposing other nonacademic, as financial or medical requirements.



Invitation: Can we find this state when the university decided to invite us to their campus to get an interview, or because the university in question wants us to do a job or writing. If we receive this invitation, we have the right to accept or cancel. If we accept and go to deliver job interview or on the agreed day, the university will change the favorable state or negatively, depending on whether we have seen fit.



Request removal: This status is displayed when the student withdraws the application where the university has tried to contact him by mail or postal address has failed, or because it has not come to the interview on the day agreed.



Request unsuccessful: The University decides not expect the student for any reason. Normally this reason specified but, if not, we can always get in touch with the Office of Admissions of the university in question.



Received all offers, we are assigned a deadline for a response. Until then, we will carefully compare what college we want more and even attend an open day to see the campus. We have the following response:

Firm Acceptance: You must give a firm answer to that college acceptance to be your first choice, which want to go.



If you accept an unconditional offer, you agree to go to the university, as you meet the academic requirements. In this case, you must give a negative response to other universities.

If you accept a conditional offer, you agree to attend that college if you meet the conditions of the offer to completion. In this case, you can accept another university as a second option.



Acceptance as a second option: If you have given a firm acceptance of a conditional offer, you can (but you do not have to) accept another university as a second option. This acceptance can be both conditional and unconditional offers, and its purpose is simply that you have another live option if you do not fulfill the requirements of your acceptance conditional offer which was firm.



Negative: Finally're not interested in this university. You have to reject those universities that do not have firmly accepted or second choice.



If you get no favorable or simply reject all bids for any reason offer, have an additional option, called "Extra", which will allow you to find another career that still have vacancies. Obviously, course offerings will be much lower than at the beginning, as most students will already be located in their new universities.



Step 4: Presentation of results



The next and final step of the first phase is based on present results we had outstanding (probably those of 2nd year) when we sent the initial request. Remember we have some conditional offers on the table, so this step we will see if we have exceeded the requirements. In that case, conditional offers will become unconditional and will access the college that gave our firm acceptance (or second choice if we do not meet the requirements). We recommend that these results send them as soon as you give in the school, as it will speed things much.



Sometimes it is possible that, although not comply with the requirements of a conditional offer, the university in question makes us an alternative offer, which can accept or reject within 5 days.