Still nothing on the UCAS website.
Clearing is closed now too.

He has made the decision to take a year out and resit if he doesn't get in - which is looking increasingly more likely as time drags on.

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Originally posted by Moomin:
Still nothing on the UCAS website.
Clearing is closed now too.

He has made the decision to take a year out and resit if he doesn't get in - which is looking increasingly more likely as time drags on.

has he had a look at the clearing and places avilable on the ucas website....

Some students will not take the places they are offered and now they have 5 days to try for other places if they want so the places available are changing all the time...

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by Moomin:
Still nothing on the UCAS website.
Clearing is closed now too.

He has made the decision to take a year out and resit if he doesn't get in - which is looking increasingly more likely as time drags on.

has he had a look at the clearing and places avilable on the ucas website....

Some students will not take the places they are offered and now they have 5 days to try for other places if they want so the places available are changing all the time...

It may sound a bit picky, but he really doesn't want to go to a university if he hasn't seen it.
TBH anywhere that has a place left now, won't be one of the more highly regarded universities.
(I know, I'm a snob, but I can remember when some of these unis used to be good old-fashioned polytechnics.

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Originally posted by Moomin:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by Moomin:
Still nothing on the UCAS website.
Clearing is closed now too.

He has made the decision to take a year out and resit if he doesn't get in - which is looking increasingly more likely as time drags on.

has he had a look at the clearing and places avilable on the ucas website....

Some students will not take the places they are offered and now they have 5 days to try for other places if they want so the places available are changing all the time...

It may sound a bit picky, but he really doesn't want to go to a university if he hasn't seen it.
TBH anywhere that has a place left now, won't be one of the more highly regarded universities.
(I know, I'm a snob, but I can remember when some of these unis used to be good old-fashioned polytechnics.

tell him to keep looking though cos one of the unis hes seen and liked may have places available...what with the 5 day thing now that means some places that at the minute are taken may not be in a day or two.

Hi moomin, sorry to hear it's all still a bit up in the air at the mo. Some of the ex-polys are really good Unis now but I know that's a separate issue really.

I can totally understand him not wanting to go somewhere he hasn't visited, it's a daunting prospect leaving home under the best of curcumstances.

Keep pestering his original choices for a few days as you never know. If he does end up taking 'the road less travelled' and re-sitting then once he settles into it he'll be just fine and you'll have him at home for another year.

Moomin,

I know I can't help you on the clearing thingy and stuff. But, I was talking to hubby about you and your boy.

Hubby was a top level recruiter (he recruited law firm partners & the like)... he looks at CV's day in, day out... and when I was talking to him about your boys results he said...

"its such a shame that he has got his results and feels like a failure. B, C, C, are not failure results, I look at those results and mentally tick in my head... 3 A levels (& he, like alot of us, feel that A Levels are the hardest qualifications... degrees are easier) . What a shame this boy is spending tonight feeling desperate, instead of proud of himself."

Just thought I'd pass it on.