Thank you Ted. Yes I do know UCL is very competitive, furthermore, I am applying without Year-Out Experience and with only my first 2-years of transcripts... Literally applying with not much hope of getting in to be very honest... Every year there's at least 2~3 graduates from my uni getting into UCL Bartlett... One more "prominent" graduate is Nathan Fairbrother from Unit10. I am indeed considering other Unis too... As I can see you are an experienced UK Archi-Education user, do you think with my transcripts and  a soon-to-be Mid-Tier Portfolio (let's bit pessimistic here haha), the chances of me getting into UCL or even other Unis? So I am guessing there will be a surge of applicant for this year due to pandemic and not many students will be getting their year out experience? Oh no, I am definitely on a VERY losing end... hahaha. I know my current uni doesn't rank high at all

Hi izumiakihiko - Might be good to contact Fairbrother for a chat or perhaps reference for application. A known UCL graduate recommendation(or a current tutor who graduated from UCL) will help your application. I did attend Bartlett but so much has changed in the time of COVID and a new dean and many new programmes so difficult to say. Generally, new international student numbers are down this year (probably 2021 also) and Unis like a mix of UK/International so to build a global perspective of the cohort (boring if the class is only UK students). A good transcript will get you to the next step-portfolio+statement. But critical drawing as a narrative is so important to Bartlett agenda - Unit 10 and CJ Lim is very much about this. Have a look at student works - you might identify 3 units/tutors in your statement identifying where your work aligns with similar agendas. Perhaps for your current year work you do one/two strong drawings that pursue the same and include as part of your portfolio. A great portfolio with good grades(in that order) will get you an interview - CJ has done interviews in the past.

Thank you Ted. That's really insightful. But right now I am losing even more hope (lol), because I submitted the application (few days back) with an extremely generic description... I did not know that statement we put into the application itself have to contain/identify the Units/Tutors!! I literally did not write anything that states any tutors or units... It's all about my life (omg lol), and how I travel / fall in love with architecture (it's so cringey)... Also, I just went to check the application, both my referees (one is my lecturer form uni, and the other is a US company's principal from my last summer internship) submitted their references... So there's no way I can do any changes to it anymore :( To add-on, I realised I made so many grammatical / spelling errors on it because I copied the wrong word file into the application! A disaster of an application... :( Oh well, what I can do is see if the application will even move on to the Portfolio / Interview stage I guess...?