Hi, I am currently a sophmore looking into London universities. I am an American citizen, although I live in Turkey. I am currently working on my own book, as I am an aspiring author. I am also wanting to model. I was looking at colleges/uni’s and I came across this one- and one of my older guy friends goes to UCL. He highly recommends it! I’m not particularly well-informed on colleges, and don’t know any of the terms.
Could you explain to me how they accept and if I were to major in English Literature, what classes would I receive? Would writing and publishing my own book before my high school year finishes be enough? Would English Literature be the correct subject to major in, seeing as I would like to become a writer of my own?
Here’s the UCL web page on how to apply if you’re an international student: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/apply/application-process/international
Are you currently in an American-curriculum school in Turkey, another international school, or a Turkish school?
An English degree at a UK university will involve the academic study of English Literature. It won’t generally include Creative Writing courses for credit; if you’re looking for that choose your university very carefully, and you may well be better off choosing somewhere in the US. The UCL course structure is also on their website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/ubaengsing05
There are no “majors”. You apply for one subject and that is all your study. It is very different from American universities. Is this what you want?
It sounds like maybe you want to study creative writing rather than English Literature? In that case, I recommend University of East Anglia (in Norwich, not London).
Hey i am prospective civil engineering student accpected in UCL.
I am concerned abt UCL as there is no campus life. So, What are your suggestions abt UCL!
I am got in-
USA
Wisconsin Madison
Virginia Tech
Uni Washington- Seattle
UC davis
Syracuse
Northeastern
UCL (UK)
Bath (UK)
Confused abt which one to go
I would disagree with the characterisation of UCL as having no campus life. That being said, it is an urban school, with an urban campus that is deliberately not much segregated from the rest of London (see for example http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/downloads/ucl-central-london-2014.jpeg). I agree that as to having much of a segregated campus, it does not, but it certainly has a huge amount of stuff going on both in the campus and around it.
