Hello Raluca, just follow your dreams, I was in the same situation a year ago, and now I am here, living and studying in the most beautiful city in the world! It´s really worth it!
I wanted to apply to Edinburgh but didn't because I thought my grades weren't good enough. Did better than expected but there were no places so I'm just watching videos 'till the sadness goes away lol :) Excellent uni and city.
its doable. i hardly passed highschool, failed first two years of uni, then i fix my game up and applied there for masters. currently an Msc in Econ (finance) student in edinburgh ;)
It's my dream to study at Edinburgh as well. I'm from Romania, but I will graduate the high school in 2 years and a half. I'm studying as much as I can in order to get the admission there. :)
I got chance at The Edinburgh University for Postgraduate research but unfortunately lack of fellowship I did not join there. They told me that next year you can get fellowship ..... It's my childhood dream to study here. Currently I am pursuing PhD at The University of Malaya ( UM) , Kuala Lumpur. InshaAllah I have to join there for Postdoctoral research.
It's my dream to study at Edinburgh, I'm gonna work extremely hard to get the points as this is my final school year.. I just hope to get enough.. For the time being i'll just be watching videos. :)
I'm not sure where you heard that from, but it couldn't be further from the truth. The city is very small compared to many and you can walk to pretty much anywhere!
hey, I am from pakistan .currently I m studying my pre med according to the local educational system of Pakistan I.e fsc .do I have any scope in the med school of edinburgh to get my mbbs degree.please guide.
@@hadialsayed2992 Hi Hadial. Based on my experience, some of the reasons are: 1. Mistakes in lecture notes. Sometimes very big ones. 2. I had courses overlapping. (During previous years, they made a big fuss about attendance to lectures. An attendance which was, in my view, a waste of time.) But when the courses overlapped (probably due to poor organisation / scheduling), there was no more fuss about how "important" attendance was. 3. Dire lack of interest in new scientific ideas (if you ask the University's staff about this, I have little doubt they will claim the opposite). 4. Generally, the atmosphere put me off. Especially the attitude of the staff, although it is something very subtle. Probably the negligence / lack of proper interest in giving students a good (and why not even memorable) experience. 5. If you are a Christian (and maybe this applies to other faiths as well), you may find yourself rejected in a silent/ subtle way. And sometimes maybe even in a direct way. "Just "keep quiet if you have objections, or else". And you even have the "duty" to agree (at least tacitly) with things that are against your conscience. This is what I felt. 6. The workload is *** idiotically big ***. I am not against hard work - quite the contrary. But the mind works properly in a state of relaxation, of calm, not when you are pressured with deadlines. The University of Edinburgh seems to think that they do a good service of they overload you. They are totally wrong. You may do a good job, you may even have great grades in examinations and other assessments. But once the assessment is over, you will forget everything (because of the idiotically big amount of work) or you will have just a "hazy" idea of what you studied. 7. I was made to feel intimidated by Physics staff in an illegal way. I won't give more details because they may find out who I am. 8. The fact that the workload is big does *** not *** mean that lecture notes are properly written. You will find that important parts are missing. And that because of the missing parts you can't understand the scientific content. And if you complain about it (a) there will be consequences, but not necessarily when you expect them, perhaps at a later time so as to seem "unrelated" to the fact that you complained; (b) they will tell you that they are actually doing you a service by making you read more from other materials (books, online resources e.g. from other universities). You might as well read those other materials directly, not bother with the University of Edinburgh's "teaching" and "lecture notes", and not pay those student fees (or pay them elsewhere)! 9. Speaking of which, many (all?) things that you may complain about (or raise questions about etc) will be "turned around" by the University of Edinburgh. I.e., they will not do anything about them and, even worse, they will "prove" to you how "you don't understand the situation and, actually, the University of Edinburgh is doing you a service / giving you an opportunity through having those problems". For example, as stated at point 8 above, if you complain about missing content or mistakes in the lecture notes, they will "explain" to you how, in this way, they are "giving you an opportunity" to search for materials from other sources. Or, if you raise the issue of the workload, this is an opportunity to practice your "time management skills"! In other words, if you buy a car and it turns out to be a defective car, the seller is actually doing a you a service by "helping" you learn more about cars, so not only that you shouldn't pay less, but you should even pay more because of the additional "service" / "opportunity" that the car seller is offering you! By the way, the school of Physics staff must be very good at teaching *** law *** (not physics): they will definitely show you how every single problem you raise (or, at least, many of them) can be turned around, turned against you or even presented as being an advantage or an opportunity - a useful skill to have in the court room! 10. They make a mess out of the mathematics in their physics "lecture notes" 11. Accommodation is garbage, overpriced and hard to find. This is true for other places in the UK as well, but it does not make the situation better and, in my view, is not an excuse for the University of Edinburgh having proper accommodation. 12. Crazy / idiotically-made problems in examinations. E.g., problems that are hard to solve *** in a stupid way ***. When it comes to examinations, there is an intelligent kind of "hard" and a stupid kind of "hard". The intelligent kind of hard really "gives you wings", it makes you really enjoy solving the problems even though it is an examination. The stupid kind of "hard" is the situation in which the "hard" aspect is not related (or poorly related) to what the lecturer actually "taught", and is there only to show off or perhaps to derive some stupid satisfaction from the fact that most students couldn't get proper grades. 13. In my view (and, to be honest, I don't think it is just my view), some of the academic staff are direly incompetent. They don't know the science they are supposed to know. But this situation occurs in a subtle way - probably you won't realise it at first. 14. The University of Edinburgh has fast tracking. This is one of the few good things they have, if you would like to benefit from it. You may be able to study from physics books at home for, say, three years, without being a university student at all, and then studying physics at university for one or two years in order to get the laboratory experience. And in order to use what you have read from those physics books in order to show (in examinations) that you, "ahem", "benefited" from their "undergraduate degree". Do the hard work yourself, give the (underserved) praises to the University of Edinburgh - probably the staff would like nothing better. Disclaimer: the above would be problems only if you are someone who is truly passionate about physics, studying and research. If you learn "how the system works" and if you "go with it", if you are quiet and just do what you are told and - very importantly - if you don't care about truly understanding the science, then you'll be ok or you'll even have very good grades. Sadly, in my experience many students are like that (i.e., they just want to "get the degree" / "get the grades") so I wouldn't be surprised if other people reply saying I am having illusions or similar. I hope the points above answer your questions to some extent.
4:50 ... awww, the accent appears to be infectious. :-)
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Hello Raluca, just follow your dreams, I was in the same situation a year ago, and now I am here, living and studying in the most beautiful city in the world! It´s really worth it!
I wanted to apply to Edinburgh but didn't because I thought my grades weren't good enough. Did better than expected but there were no places so I'm just watching videos 'till the sadness goes away lol :)
Excellent uni and city.
its doable. i hardly passed highschool, failed first two years of uni, then i fix my game up and applied there for masters. currently an Msc in Econ (finance) student in edinburgh ;)
got an offer last friday, buzzing, genuinely cant wait.
+Stefan Miller How's things two years in?
Hope you did well!
im doing my first year of A levels and im sosososo hoping to go to this university!!!
It's my dream to study at Edinburgh as well. I'm from Romania, but I will graduate the high school in 2 years and a half. I'm studying as much as I can in order to get the admission there. :)
I got chance at The Edinburgh University for Postgraduate research but unfortunately lack of fellowship I did not join there. They told me that next year you can get fellowship ..... It's my childhood dream to study here. Currently I am pursuing PhD at The University of Malaya ( UM) , Kuala Lumpur. InshaAllah I have to join there for Postdoctoral research.
I am feeling proud on graham bell(telephone's inventioner).Definetly scotish play good role in science& technogy.
It's my dream to study at Edinburgh, I'm gonna work extremely hard to get the points as this is my final school year.. I just hope to get enough.. For the time being i'll just be watching videos. :)
got a really good conditional offer for the computer science programme,any insight on how it is?
Did you end up going to Edinburgh to study? I'm in the same situation as you were last year
hi Raluca, I have the same dream and I am in the 11th Grade, just like you.
I'm from Tg Mures
woo my home town i love it xx
what is the focus field in Edinburg ? logic, epistemology, or other field?
it has always been a dream for me to study at edinbrugh. the only negative thing i've heard is that places are very far apart.
I'm not sure where you heard that from, but it couldn't be further from the truth. The city is very small compared to many and you can walk to pretty much anywhere!
hey, I am from pakistan .currently I m studying my pre med according to the local educational system of Pakistan I.e fsc .do I have any scope in the med school of edinburgh to get my mbbs degree.please guide.
+Zainab Anwar Send them an email to this address: medug@ed.ac.uk
I'd like to study in Edinburgh but I don't know if I can start in december or january...any help?
Heya! I'm not in the 11th grade, I'm actually in the 10th one. By the way, I live in Târgu Jiu. :)
we have the same dream!
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I got rejected by default because this university decided not to reply before 5 may :-(
wow
4:58 Emma Watson?
Do yourself a favour:
Do NOT study physics at the University of Edinburgh.
Seriously.
Why, though? I plan to study physics (double majoring in mathmatics and physics there) after high school. What is bad about it?
@@hadialsayed2992 Hi Hadial. Based on my experience, some of the reasons are:
1. Mistakes in lecture notes. Sometimes very big ones.
2. I had courses overlapping. (During previous years, they made a big fuss about attendance to lectures. An attendance which was, in my view, a waste of time.) But when the courses overlapped (probably due to poor organisation / scheduling), there was no more fuss about how "important" attendance was.
3. Dire lack of interest in new scientific ideas (if you ask the University's staff about this, I have little doubt they will claim the opposite).
4. Generally, the atmosphere put me off. Especially the attitude of the staff, although it is something very subtle. Probably the negligence / lack of proper interest in giving students a good (and why not even memorable) experience.
5. If you are a Christian (and maybe this applies to other faiths as well), you may find yourself rejected in a silent/ subtle way. And sometimes maybe even in a direct way. "Just "keep quiet if you have objections, or else". And you even have the "duty" to agree (at least tacitly) with things that are against your conscience. This is what I felt.
6. The workload is *** idiotically big ***. I am not against hard work - quite the contrary. But the mind works properly in a state of relaxation, of calm, not when you are pressured with deadlines. The University of Edinburgh seems to think that they do a good service of they overload you. They are totally wrong. You may do a good job, you may even have great grades in examinations and other assessments. But once the assessment is over, you will forget everything (because of the idiotically big amount of work) or you will have just a "hazy" idea of what you studied.
7. I was made to feel intimidated by Physics staff in an illegal way. I won't give more details because they may find out who I am.
8. The fact that the workload is big does *** not *** mean that lecture notes are properly written. You will find that important parts are missing. And that because of the missing parts you can't understand the scientific content. And if you complain about it (a) there will be consequences, but not necessarily when you expect them, perhaps at a later time so as to seem "unrelated" to the fact that you complained; (b) they will tell you that they are actually doing you a service by making you read more from other materials (books, online resources e.g. from other universities). You might as well read those other materials directly, not bother with the University of Edinburgh's "teaching" and "lecture notes", and not pay those student fees (or pay them elsewhere)!
9. Speaking of which, many (all?) things that you may complain about (or raise questions about etc) will be "turned around" by the University of Edinburgh. I.e., they will not do anything about them and, even worse, they will "prove" to you how "you don't understand the situation and, actually, the University of Edinburgh is doing you a service / giving you an opportunity through having those problems".
For example, as stated at point 8 above, if you complain about missing content or mistakes in the lecture notes, they will "explain" to you how, in this way, they are "giving you an opportunity" to search for materials from other sources.
Or, if you raise the issue of the workload, this is an opportunity to practice your "time management skills"!
In other words, if you buy a car and it turns out to be a defective car, the seller is actually doing a you a service by "helping" you learn more about cars, so not only that you shouldn't pay less, but you should even pay more because of the additional "service" / "opportunity" that the car seller is offering you!
By the way, the school of Physics staff must be very good at teaching *** law *** (not physics): they will definitely show you how every single problem you raise (or, at least, many of them) can be turned around, turned against you or even presented as being an advantage or an opportunity - a useful skill to have in the court room!
10. They make a mess out of the mathematics in their physics "lecture notes"
11. Accommodation is garbage, overpriced and hard to find. This is true for other places in the UK as well, but it does not make the situation better and, in my view, is not an excuse for the University of Edinburgh having proper accommodation.
12. Crazy / idiotically-made problems in examinations. E.g., problems that are hard to solve *** in a stupid way ***. When it comes to examinations, there is an intelligent kind of "hard" and a stupid kind of "hard". The intelligent kind of hard really "gives you wings", it makes you really enjoy solving the problems even though it is an examination. The stupid kind of "hard" is the situation in which the "hard" aspect is not related (or poorly related) to what the lecturer actually "taught", and is there only to show off or perhaps to derive some stupid satisfaction from the fact that most students couldn't get proper grades.
13. In my view (and, to be honest, I don't think it is just my view), some of the academic staff are direly incompetent. They don't know the science they are supposed to know. But this situation occurs in a subtle way - probably you won't realise it at first.
14. The University of Edinburgh has fast tracking. This is one of the few good things they have, if you would like to benefit from it. You may be able to study from physics books at home for, say, three years, without being a university student at all, and then studying physics at university for one or two years in order to get the laboratory experience. And in order to use what you have read from those physics books in order to show (in examinations) that you, "ahem", "benefited" from their "undergraduate degree". Do the hard work yourself, give the (underserved) praises to the University of Edinburgh - probably the staff would like nothing better.
Disclaimer: the above would be problems only if you are someone who is truly passionate about physics, studying and research. If you learn "how the system works" and if you "go with it", if you are quiet and just do what you are told and - very importantly - if you don't care about truly understanding the science, then you'll be ok or you'll even have very good grades. Sadly, in my experience many students are like that (i.e., they just want to "get the degree" / "get the grades") so I wouldn't be surprised if other people reply saying I am having illusions or similar.
I hope the points above answer your questions to some extent.
the English pronunciation is really disturbing , it is difficult to understand it ,
Is taht scottish accent? I don't realy like it..:(
Alise Jayforue shut up Scottish accents are amazing