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05-20-2008, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Got my degree results today . . .
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2:1 (upper second) 
Bsc (Honours) in Biochemistry, w00t! 
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05-20-2008, 02:11 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | [golf clap] Well done.  |
05-20-2008, 02:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | If I understood your grading system, I'd be more effusive - but congrats!
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05-20-2008, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim  If I understood your grading system, I'd be more effusive - but congrats! | LOL Yeah, to this day I still don't understand the European educational system. 
Regardless...bravo!
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05-20-2008, 02:54 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | Indeed, congrats no matter what the heck your grades actually are.
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05-20-2008, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Ah sorry, didnt realise it was much different 
It goes:
1st - Basically an A
2:1 (upper second) - Basically a B
2:2 (lower second) - Basically a C
3rd - Basically a D
You need a 2:1 or a 1st (generally) to be competative in the job market, and you also generally need a 2:1 or a 1st if you plan to do post graduate study. Only one person in our degree classification got a 1st this year!
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05-20-2008, 07:08 PM
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05-20-2008, 07:10 PM
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05-20-2008, 08:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Well 1st does not = an A than. You can pretty much whelp the professors daughter, miss some classes, and still get a A average. If only 1 person got a 1st, then a 2:1 sounds pretty damn good to me.
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05-20-2008, 09:07 PM
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05-21-2008, 12:42 AM
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05-21-2008, 10:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wales, UK | | congrats mate 
say, you're not at dundee uni by any chance are you? I'm thinking about applying there, but I'm not sure yet. any thoughts?
I'm definitely applying to edinburgh anyway!
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05-21-2008, 11:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | What is it you are planning on studying?
If it is the life sciences, the staff are (mainly) amazingly good folk. It is a very well rated university, while it doesnt have the "old school" name of edinburgh or st andrews, it surpases them both in many fields. It also has a huge amount of local biotech etc industries, aswell as the biggest & best cancer research facility in the UK (IIRC).
I would go for it
I'm going to Herriot Watt for my Masters, not a great choice of university, but it is one of the few places doing the kind of course im interested in. Then im planning on going back to Dundee to do my PhD, so if your around, ill buy you a beer !
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05-21-2008, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | Oh yeah, I forgot to congratulate a fellow bionerd! Just a few more years until BSc for me..  So grats, and I hope there's a nice MSc school waiting for you!
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05-21-2008, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Cheers
It's a nice school, not as highly rated one as I would like, but it is a bit of a niche subject. I don't know for certain, but I was told, unofficially, that I would be given a place and scholarship if I attained either a 1 or a 2:1
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05-21-2008, 04:18 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | Congrats ! Academic ability and achievment is a wonderful blessing.
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05-21-2008, 05:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Herriot Watt, my dad went there close to thirty years ago... He doesn't talk much about his college life.
Oh, and congratulations.
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05-21-2008, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by JonathanD Well 1st does not = an A than. You can pretty much whelp the professors daughter, miss some classes, and still get a A average. If only 1 person got a 1st, then a 2:1 sounds pretty damn good to me. | Isn't that kind of how medical school works? You're basically competeting with other students for a finite number of grade slots? For example, when there's a test, only two students will be assigned an A, only three will get a B, eight will be given Cs, and so forth.
Med students and doctors, am I talking out my bunghole here? LOL
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05-21-2008, 06:52 PM
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05-21-2008, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk
You need a 2:1 or a 1st (generally) to be competative in the job market, and you also generally need a 2:1 or a 1st if you plan to do post graduate study. Only one person in our degree classification got a 1st this year!
| Interesting! Here in the States, GPA is more important when applying to graduate or professional school...and it can be argued that there are still other factors more important than actual grades when it comes to getting accepted. Actual GPA is less so important when looking for employment. A "Summa Cum Laude" designation on a resume or cirriculum vitae may give you a little edge over other applicants, but in general, people are more interested in your work experience, skills, and your overall marketability. Personal networking is probably the biggest overall employment tool you can have in your disposal. Nepotism helps too if you live where I do. 
I wish there were more emphasis placed on academic achievement here other than just having the piece of of paper.
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