Why have I chosen the UB? Students with excellent university admission marks answer the question
Few students get an admission mark between 13 and 14 points, the maximum mark you can get in university entrance examination. To get these marks, it is necessary to get also an excellent mark in upper secondary studies. Students who get these high marks can choose the degree and the university they prefer. The UB has increased the number of excellent students it receives for the last years. In the academic year 2012-2013 it had 79 students, and the next academic year it will welcome 240 excellent students. Along the following lines, four of these students describe their academic options and future prospects.
Few students get an admission mark between 13 and 14 points, the maximum mark you can get in university entrance examination. To get these marks, it is necessary to get also an excellent mark in upper secondary studies. Students who get these high marks can choose the degree and the university they prefer. The UB has increased the number of excellent students it receives for the last years. In the academic year 2012-2013 it had 79 students, and the next academic year it will welcome 240 excellent students. Along the following lines, four of these students describe their academic options and future prospects.
Nerea Isabel Carbonell got a 14, the maximum university admission mark. She likes “sciences and numbers”, but she was not sure what degree was she going to study. She collected information until she decided to choose the degree in Biomedical Engineering of the UB. “I really liked Medicine because I have always been interested in the human body and health, but I also like the part of engineering that consists on working in group, looking for information, reasoning, calculating, etc. So, finally, I decided to study biomedical engineering”. After visiting different universities, she decided to enrol at the UB. “I really like the possibility to make placements at the Hospital Clínic, because it is a prestigious hospital”, she emphasises. In the future, she sees herself “working together with doctors, at a hospital, for instance in the design of a machine”. “Or maybe I do a MBA and create a company of biomedical engineering”, she affirms.
In the academic year 2015-2016, Pablo Peláez begins his studies at the UB. He has appeared on the news for having got the best university admission mark in Catalonia. Peláez is going to study Medicine at the Clínic August Pi i Sunyer Campus. He selected the UB “because it is a prestigious institution with excellent teaching staff and because the Hospital Clínic is a good health centre”. Although there are doctors in his family, he ensures that medicine is his true vocation”. In fact, his objective was to get an enough high mark to study Medicine. In the future, he would like to combine health care and research.
Philosophy: “a solid basic training”
Alba Adiego has been admitted into the degree in Catalan with a mark of 13.256. She confesses that at first she doubted between devoting herself to humanities or choosing a degree in health sciences, like most excellent students do. “Everyone says that sciences have better future prospects, but I thought that I will get a better job if I study what I really like because then it is easier to stand out”. Although she is now focused on her studies, the professional options that most motivate her are Catalan language teaching in foreign countries and language research.
Aniol Costa-Pau arrives at the University with an admission mark of 13.302. He has chosen Philosophy because he wants to have “a solid basic training” that will allow him working in the field of culture. He really likes cinema so he will consider the possibility to study a postgraduate course at the Catalan Centre for Advanced Studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Media (ESCAC), a UB-affiliated centre. After considering different degrees, he decided to choose Philosophy because it deals with thinking “which is what I really like”, he affirms. He could study Philosophy in Girona, where he lives, but he wants to enjoy the experience of living in Barcelona and be independent. Barcelona will offer him job and cultural opportunities.
Aniol thinks that getting excellent marks is easier if you do “something you really like because you pay attention in class and motivate”. “Then, at home, it is necessary to revise and study”, he points out. Pablo Peláez also explains that at the University he will use the same technique he has been using to get excellent marks till now: “Perseverance, effort, mental preparation. Not to get obsessed, it is necessary to switch off”.