When to start thinking about your child's university journey
When should I start thinking about my child’s university journey? It can take one comment at a dinner party to send you into a world of worry that you have missed a milestone in your child’s life potentially effecting their educational pathway forever. Fear not, Oxbridge Applications and A-List Education experts stepped onto our screens last night to identify all the steps you can make to facilitate your child’s university decision.
Chaired by Tom Aarand of Cardiff Sixth Form College equipped with his own personal experience and wealth of knowledge about the process, Alicia Luba explained the reasons why UK universities might be the right fit for your child whilst Tammy Parks’s plethora of expertise determined the upshot of the US system. Alison Bissel kick-started the webinar with an outline of where to start your journey “allowing for exploration time, maintaining opportunities, acknowledging restrictions before making your match and balancing your list”. One detail that was abundantly clear from the start in identifying whether your child is US or UK university compatible was that, ultimately, it has a lot to do with personality, deep diving into one particular subject from the age of 14 lends itself to an undergraduate course in the UK. Luba explained the depth of knowledge required for personal statements, subject-specific testing and interviews*. But perhaps your child is an all-rounder? Parks revealed the importance of extracurricular subjects, philanthropic ideals and an emotive narrative for a personal essay (the equivalent to a personal statement) in the US that brings the applicant’s whole self to the table in just 650 words - not just their academic capability. If you missed this informative debate, watch now to find out if languages are important at GCSE, when you need to apply for university and what the SATs are really all about.
(*only relevant for Oxbridge applications)
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