olmost

Hi, Edinfan and/or others. I received a conditional acceptance at Edinburgh today for Fall 2013 (need to get a 4+ in AP Calc, which I'm pretty sure I can do). I'm curious about the tuition cost of 20K that Edinfan posted. When I checked the U of E website and the exchange rate, I see a tuition of 28K. This is for Informatics. Was the 20K taking a scholarship into account? I'm also wondering if I should apply for one of the scholarships that are for International students.

NYU2013

$27,000 USD would be a roughly 17,000 pound tuition rate. That's incredibly high. Most international students in the UK (for an undergrad degree) pay in the range of 11,000-14,000 pounds. Are you adding living costs onto tuition to get the 17,000 pound rate?

olmost

Hi NYU, Nope this was only tuition. I looked at this page, link below. Several courses have a tuition rate (for 2012-13) of 16,650 pounds.

Undergraduate Fees

Believe me, I would love to have been wrong!

Laylah

Universities will bump up their fees if (a) the course is popular and/or (b) the course costs more to deliver. That's why science courses often attract higher fees than arts/humanities courses. This is pretty standard across UK universities and you'll see it almost everywhere.

Unfortunately olmost, it looks like Informatics fits the above criteria!

MomCares

Just curious - S has applied to several UK schools, and while he gained rapid acceptance to St. Andrews he has yet to hear from Edinburgh, UCL, and Oxford (they inform folks if an interview is granted in December).

Should he be concerned if he's not yet heard from Edinburgh or UCL, or is it normal for them to be much slower to respond than St. Andrews?

cupcake

It depends on the specific course, but as the deadline for most courses for UK students is in January I wouldn't worry yet.

I'd contact Oxford if you don't hear from them in the next couple of days, especially if you intend to go to Oxford for interview rather than using skype.

MomCares

S just heard today that he's been granted an interview at Oxford. His college must be among the last to announce interviews. So exciting for him!!

boomting

@MomCares - Congratulations to your son and good luck!

Edinfan

my daughter is at University of Edinburgh. They had her application for a month and she really wanted to go so she sent admissions an email about this time two years ago (early December) and politely asked whether they would be making any more offers before Christmas and they immediately wrote back saying "Oh, its looks like you'd really like to attend, so we will send you out a formal offer today."So, I bet if you just give them a ring, or send an email, they will make her an offer.

MomCares

Thanks, @boomting and @Edinfan!

I'll pass that info along to S and see if he'd like to ping Edinburgh before the holidays or wait until he's heard back from Oxford (where he interviewed last weekend) and UCL (where he's been having an email interview). He has sent some test score updates to Edinburgh recently, so I assume they know he is still interested.

Is anyone else at cc engaged in applying to UK schools this year?