UNI Interviews and Offers

I applied to Falmouth, Gloucestershire, Leeds, Newport and London Arts College.  I have interviews to everyone besides Leeds as they required a C in Math, I also did not attend my Newport interview as I found out the campus was in Cardiff and I was not impressed with the Facilities or the accommodation it had to offer.

Falmouth was my top choice to begin with so naturally I attended numerous days and things they had to offer related to the course I wanted to do. This enabled me to get used to the campus and the surroundings before my interview. 
Gloucestershire UNI, my first interview, however was completely new to me. On arrival I was impressed with the campus and the facilities on offer. The surrounding area was also nice and looked like a safe environment to live in whilst studying there. My interview went very well and there was a lot of promising feedback toward my portfolio, I prepared before the interview, as with everyone, by running through questions that may be asked and coming up with answers to them, I also thought of things to say about my images as well as relevant things to mention about my previous experiences in photography. As Gloucestershire was my first interview and had gone so well I came out with a new found confidence about my work and images and sure enough got a conditional offer from them a few days later.  The offer was to get an overall grade of DDM and a C grade in my math re-take.

My second interview was at the London College of Communication. In order to prepare they had asked me to write an evaluation of an image in order for them to assess my written work. This was taken from me in the interview. I applied for the Photojournalist course however when in the interview I realised the course wasn’t right for me as I want to look more into travel photojournalism as apposed to covering red carpet events in London. I also think the interview didn’t go as planned as there was no real interest in my image or what I had to say. I knew I hadn’t got in and sure enough I hadn’t.

Falmouth was my last interview. I had to complete a project they had sent me a brief for which included documenting something unusual in my hometown, I decided to document a shed that was converted into a cafe, these images were viewed and spoken about in the interview. As this was my top choice I was very nervous and almost over prepared to insure everything went smoothly. I spoke about my images and tried to come across as confident as I could during the interview. I also brought a certificate I had from the Devon photographic competition where my image came highly commended. After the interview I felt I did everything I could to get in however the interviewers hadn’t let out anything about how they felt about my work so I was still very nervous and unsure about whether I had got in or not. After a long twenty-four hours late I got my reply and I had a conditional offer from Falmouth with only a merit grade requirement, this was below the asking grade. I accepted the offer straight away dismissing my other offers.

When attending interviews it gave me an insight as to whether the UNI was right for me or not and I concluded that Falmouth was the right UNI for me and I felt like if I didn’t get in I would re-apply until I got in because I did not see the point in going to a UNI in which was wrong for me or made me feel unwelcome.