Applying for uni next year..

willhub

willhub

willhub

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Hi.

Well I suddenly got worried, I never realised the deadline for applications on UCAS is Jan 15th, so I swiftly registered an account on UCAS to get started, my tutors never told me and from what it seems they're not into helping us finding courses?

The problem is, at the moment, I am doing a FDsC in Computer Systems Support, and I'm unsure what to do next year, infact I don't know what I want to do, and it's really stressing me out.

It seems I'll have to do a bsc but not sure in what, also I don't want to have to do the full 3 or 4 years, the reason being I've been told due to the course I've done in some courses I could possible skip the first year?

So what can I do? Is there people to help me find a course? I'm wanting to either go to Sheffield or Leeds.


Thanks
Will.
 
willhub said:
It seems I'll have to do a bsc but not sure in what, also I don't want to have to do the full 3 or 4 years, the reason being I've been told due to the course I've done in some courses I could possible skip the first year?
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Depends on the Uni, I guess, but when I did the Bsc neuroscience @ Nottingham Uni, in my second year a few people appeared who had been doing a FD at another Uni without doing the first year, so guess it's possible.
 
Speak to shefield and leeds. Go to their computing departments, see what it is like and what they offer. Probably all on the internet.
 
willhub said:
I am doing a FDsC in Computer Systems Support
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It seems I'll have to do a bsc but not sure in what, also I don't want to have to do the full 3 or 4 years
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Are you sure Uni is right for you? It doesnt like it if you feel you will 'have' to do a BSc (Most people WANT to do a BSc) and you are already looking at ways to skip the first year.

How many UCAS points is a computer support course worth? You realise you dont need a degree if you want to work on a helpdesk right?
 
after doing my UCAS app a couple of weeks ago, i suggest you attend an open evening at one of your universities of choice. that way, you wont spend £19 for nothing and will get a much better feel for the course choices. my college dropped me and my fellow students in it with this UCAS app aswell.i spoke to a work colleague who goes to the university i want to go to (wolverhampton) and he never entered UCAS, just signed up on the open evening.
 
Have a look at their online prospectus and see if there is anything you fancy?

Call the Uni's admissions and see what they recommend?

Phone up their admissions and enquire about if your current course can transfer credits?


I appreciate you didn't get much help, but if you can't help yourself enough to start this, you'll never make it through a BSc.
 
[TW]Fox;15476255 said:
Are you sure Uni is right for you? It doesnt like it if you feel you will 'have' to do a BSc (Most people WANT to do a BSc) and you are already looking at ways to skip the first year.

How many UCAS points is a computer support course worth? You realise you dont need a degree if you want to work on a helpdesk right?
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I don't want to work on a helpdesk.

I get the impression a Foundation Degree is actually not a degree that means anything to companies, basically, it seems like it's abit of a Mickey Mouse Degree apart from enabling you to progress to a higher degree.

So what I seem to think is that doing a BSC is the only way forward really as to employers it will mean much more than a Foundation Degree, and I'd hope a BSC in the right subject for me would obviously give me more experience and hopefully bring on some placements, we where told that in my Foundation Degree I am doing now we'd have a 6 week placement, but we've heard nothing of this and it appears we infact don't have any placement at all, and the course I am on is pretty much nothing I expected it to be.

When I went to the open evening for the FDsC I am on now, I asked plenty of questions and the main thing I was looking for is with hardware, when infact, this course has minimal hardware subjects and is infact more software based and project management, now don't get me wrong I think the project management is a good thing to learn, but I'm not wanting to do anything to do with databases and low level programming.

HeadlessChicken said:
Have a look at their online prospectus and see if there is anything you fancy?

Call the Uni's admissions and see what they recommend?

Phone up their admissions and enquire about if your current course can transfer credits?


I appreciate you didn't get much help, but if you can't help yourself enough to start this, you'll never make it through a BSc.
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What makes you think I'd not make it through a BSc?
 
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[TW]Fox;15476515 said:
So why did you do a foundation thingy in Computer Support :confused:



Arghghg.



Well paragraphing skills for one.
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:rolleyes:

You're not a very helpfull.
 
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Only if troll = people who disagree with you or dont tell you what you want to hear.

University is a massive commitment and a huge thing. You want me to be brutally honest with you?

It's not for you because if it was, you wouldnt be sitting here a month before the UCAS deadline not having a clue what degree to do, where to do it, what you need to get in or how to apply. You wouldnt be wondering if you can maybe skip half the course and you wouldn't have decided to do a whateveritwas in Computer Desktop Support.

What do you actually want to do in life? Answer this question, then see if it needs a degree, then chose the degree you need.
 
Loads of people skip the first year. I've never realised the deadline was 15th, how was I supposed to know without been informed?
 
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[TW]Fox;15476621 said:
It's not for you because if it was, you wouldnt be sitting here a month before the UCAS deadline not having a clue what degree to do, where to do it, what you need to get in or how to apply. You wouldnt be wondering if you can maybe skip half the course and you wouldn't have decided to do a whateveritwas in Computer Desktop Support.

What do you actually want to do in life? Answer this question, then see if it needs a degree, then chose the degree you need.
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Many people go to university because they are unsure what to do. I don't know how old the OP is but I went to university when I was 16 and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do hence why I did a pretty general degree (Law & Politics, BA (Hons.))
I think it's best for the OP to phone up the universities that he is interested in, there'll be admission tutors and the like to guide you and suggest options. However they will be awfully busy (and will have teaching commitments) so go in with an idea of what's on offer and what you can get into...
Help yourself to help them help you.
Also, it's quite common for people to skip first year. My friend did, as he was offered the chance and didn't see the point in doing first year where he was already knowledgeable to not suffer from not doing it, in MEng Product Design and he graduated with a 1st with Distinction...
 
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willhub said:
Loads of people skip the first year.
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Most proper Uni students do not skip the first year. The first year is so importants, its where you meet everyone, forge friendships that last a very long time and really enjoy the social aspect of Uni. Even if you dont care now about the social aspect of Uni its half the experience. It's massively important.

The only people I know who skipped the first year were those who cruised in having done a 'foundation degree' and then scraped a 3rd. What a waste of time.
 
[TW]Fox;15476668 said:
Most proper Uni students do not skip the first year. The first year is so importants, its where you meet everyone, forge friendships that last a very long time and really enjoy the social aspect of Uni. Even if you dont care now about the social aspect of Uni its half the experience. It's massively important.

The only people I know who skipped the first year were those who cruised in having done a 'foundation degree' and then scraped a 3rd. What a waste of time.
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Just because you join in a later year does not mean you don't have friendships, I get on and knows loads of people from the flats I am in, I don't associate with anyone in my course out of course time.

How is it a waste of time if you take everything in and do the work to the best of your abilities? And the reason I did a computer system support course is because it had abit of everything, or so I thought.
 
I think what fox is trying to say is that in your case uni seems like something you feel you have to do as oppose to you wanting to do it. Which is not the right attitude as you'll flunk out immediately if your heart's not in it. There are plenty of other options out there should you not want to go to university. You're timing hasn't left you in a good position however. Might be useful if you answer Fox's question of where do you want to go in life?
 
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