I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was having trouble deciding which universities to choose to apply to. However, I have visited a few of them and I have made my mind up.
First off, out of the Cambridge/Oxford choice, I've decided on Cambridge. That's partly due to preferring the city as a place, but also because I'm going on the Sutton Trust Computer Science Summer School (that's a mouthful!), so there will be an element of familiarity. I'd rather go to a university I've gotten used to somewhat.
As for the other choices, I basically found the four highest-ranking universities that carry the course I want to take – a three or four year course in Computer Science – and chose those. The final list has ended up as Edinburgh, Southampton, Bristol and York.
Basically, at this point, it comes down to applying and seeing if any of them offer me a place.
In case you were wondering, I got my AS level results on Thursday: An A in Computing, an A in Physics, and in Maths (which was a full A level rather than an AS), I got an A*.
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