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Originally posted by Moomin:

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Originally posted by disley21:
I didn't get the grades my first choice uni wanted, I still got in.

Tell us more, Disley - did you get very much lower grades - which uni - which course?
Some courses are more popular/oversubscribed than others, aren't they? I'm very glad my son isn't wanting to do medicine, physiotherapy or law.

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Originally posted by Barolo:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
Oh sorry I haven't got a scooby,...but I would imagine he still might get in, it would depend on the results of the other applicants.

Exactly! Even if he doesn't ge the required grades, there's still a chance.

I hope you're worrying over nothing, Moomin, and that your son gets the required grades but please, don't fret if he doesn't. If this is the case he will need to contact the Uni straight away . . . his teachers will have already told him this.

My students get their AS results this week, too and I feel as nervous as a parent!

Good luck to him (and to all awaiting results) and here's a for you!

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Originally posted by Barolo:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
Oh sorry I haven't got a scooby,...but I would imagine he still might get in, it would depend on the results of the other applicants.

Exactly! Even if he doesn't get the required grades, there's still a chance.

I hope you're worrying over nothing, Moomin, and that your son gets the required grades but please, don't fret if he doesn't. If this is the case he will need to contact the Uni straight away . . . his teachers will have already told him this.

My students get their AS results this week, too and I feel as nervous as a parent!

Good luck to him (and to all awaiting results) and here's a for you!

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Originally posted by Moomin:
One minute I am busy with something and forget all about this, and then suddenly I will remember how close it is now, and I feel sick.

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Originally posted by cup:
She seems more concerned about big night out tomorrow taking her out to treat her tommorow whatever results,new outfit etc.She deserves that regardless of anything.

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Originally posted by disley21:
I didn't get the grades my first choice uni wanted, I still got in.

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by cup:
She seems more concerned about big night out tomorrow taking her out to treat her tommorow whatever results,new outfit etc.She deserves that regardless of anything.

That's great cup, it's really true that so long as they tried their best then there's always a cause for celebration.

Good luck to your daughter too.

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Originally posted by Moomin:
My son't just found out that one of his mates had his letter from his uni this morning, so he already knows he's in!! More pressure still on my son!!

Seriously though, your posts are cheering me up and stopping me feeling so (dare I say it?) negative.

Thanks everyone!!

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by Moomin:
One minute I am busy with something and forget all about this, and then suddenly I will remember how close it is now, and I feel sick.

Aw have a moomin, it's natural to be anxious but I can honestly say that most students get the place they want even if they don't quite get the grades they've been told they need.

As others have mentioned the whole clearing process starts as soon as the results are out and there's a lot of juggling around.

Also MrSkive works in Higher Education at a national level and he'd tell you that, unfortunately, Universities are much more about being a business these days and are more concerned with the money a student brings rather than their grades.

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Originally posted by subatomic partygirl:
You can't be implying that we compromise our entry requirements for 'bums on seats'. Ms Skive!?

At my uni, we don't reduce our entry points much
during clearning but we do knock a few off and become....'more symapathetic to soft-curriculum skills'. . The pressures we feel from Senior Management to generate revenue doesn't mean we drop entry quals much but that we must make offers to more people with the required UCAS points than we used to (affecting our staff-student ratio...quite dangerously).

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Originally posted by skive:

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Originally posted by subatomic partygirl:
You can't be implying that we compromise our entry requirements for 'bums on seats'. Ms Skive!?

At my uni, we don't reduce our entry points much
during clearning but we do knock a few off and become....'more symapathetic to soft-curriculum skills'. . The pressures we feel from Senior Management to generate revenue doesn't mean we drop entry quals much but that we must make offers to more people with the required UCAS points than we used to (affecting our staff-student ratio...quite dangerously).

You and Mr Skive would get along famously, he's forever ranting about how teaching and learning is on the verge of becoming compromised beyond recognition because of so-called market forces and reactionary policy.

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Originally posted by subatomic partygirl:
He's right though. Rue the day, they will. I'd like to think that the 14-19 Diploma will restore a semblance of appropriate focus and acknowledgement of a complete cock-up but now, in anticipation of its effect and a projected demographic downturn in traditional 18 year old entrants, we're being dragged (screaming and kicking) from a research and teaching to a research, teaching AND enterprise focus.

In the spirit of such, can I interest anyone in a (very reasonably priced) personality test?

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Originally posted by skive:


I'll do a personality test subs - depending on what 'reasonably priced' means of course.

P.S. Very sorry moomin for hijacking your thread a bit.

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Originally posted by subatomic partygirl:

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Originally posted by skive:


I'll do a personality test subs - depending on what 'reasonably priced' means of course.

P.S. Very sorry moomin for hijacking your thread a bit.

The figure I'm thinking seems very reasonable to me! I'll add you to the list for when they have us setting up stalls in the Trafford Centre.

Aye....for for thread-napping, Moomin. Good luck to your son. Remind him that, whatever, happens, where there's a will...? ~x