University of Aberdeen Blog

Right, who is excited about second semester?! I hope you have screamed ‘ME!’ at the computer. Well, I am definitely looking forward to my new courses; there is nothing wrong with being a little bit of a geek! Apart from doing some university preparations I have also been helping new postgraduate students to settle in at the Hillhead Halls. It was great to be back in student halls once again, I have even managed to practice my French with new Erasmus students. Welcome to all new students, I hope you have settled in well and are enjoying yourselves already! As Ashley mentioned, there are many amazing events this week and we all should have a little bit of fun before the essay writing will begin again. Go party, sign up for as many societies and sports clubs as you can, I promise it’ll be fun!

Many of you, who have applied to University of Aberdeen, have been getting in touch with us to find out about your offers. We were happy to have received so many applications, however due to such a large amount of applications it is taking a while to get back to all of you. But the University will be sending out the bulk of their decisions in February, with the exception of Medicine and the BEd. Unfortunately, if you have not applied on time late applications will not be considered.

We also received many phone calls from parents with regards to Parents’ Evenings; the letter has all the details on how to sign-up for an evening and also online evenings, there is also additional information can be found on www.abdn.ac.uk/parents-evening. However the letter does not indicate whether or not an offer will be made to the student.

There is also additional information about Saltire Scholarship, the deadline for this year is 17^th June, and applications should include the reference and transcript. The scholarship is open to Canadian, Chinese, Indian and US nationals. Details of the scholarship can be found at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/international/scholarships.php.

I hope you all will get the letters you are waiting for very soon. Good luck everyone! I’m off to order books for this semester J

There’s still time to apply to a range of our popular postgraduate programmes AND secure funding for your studies. A range of PSAS funding (for Scottish students) and CTA funding (UK & EU students) is still available along with College bursaries. For full details of the funding available, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/central/funding