My daughter is finding the whole UCAS thing hard. She's just returned to school after study leave A/S levels. Both teachers and fellow students are talking about applications and open days.
Her situation is that she is interested in studying Politics but not 100% sure. They are just starting the A2 syllabus, and the different topics studied mean that she's less sure than she was about favourite subjects.
She worked very hard for AS levels and didn't really want to divert her energies by thinking a lot about open days. So some of the ones she was interested in are booked up. She's in a bit of a spin about the relative of virtues of 'old' universities (possibly snobby and in small towns vs new (big impersonal cities.)
One of the drawbacks for her is that she thinks about things very throughly, seeing the pluses and minuses of everything. And she would also find it easier to leave the whole process until after she's got her AS results. (I suspect that these will be very good indeed, but she's not the over confident type i.e. - she'd rather not think about the most sought-after universities until she knows it is likely she would get the grades.
I have said that her father and I will try and talk things through with her at the weekend. We are happy to visit some of the possible university towns and cities with her over the summer, if that helps.
Just wondered if others had had similar experiences. (Neither of us are micro-managing parents, and our daughter doesn't take that well to being micro-managed. It's more a matter of giving her the tools to help her move forward with something she doesn't find that easy.)
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MarianneSolong · 12/06/2014 11:41
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