New Batch of Year 13 parents this way!

That is awful Lonicera. Does so much depend on the PS?

I have emailed school this evening asking them to ring me tomorrow as I feel that DD hasn't had enough guidance or the right guidance.

She has struggled to get work experience as she only turned 17 at the end of the school year. Her plan is to take a year out to get experience and then apply.

Lonicera, are they offering any advice about how to improve her PS? What do they think is wrong with it? If she doesn't have enough work experience or something then that's one thing, but just to say the PS isn't good enough with no guidance to improve it is completely unfair.

DD has had a major setback. She was told today that her PS wasn't good enough to apply for medicine (why wasn't she offered any guidance with it?) and it was a waste of time applying and she should do something else instead.

I am so angry with the school for leaving it so close to the deadline to tell her that she was doing it wrong.

Congratulations to your DD Lobster. How come she applied so early? What subject is it for? I didn't think offers were made this early.

Hooray Kitten! if it’s anything like at DD’s 6th form, they’ll say it will take the a couple of days to attach all their bits (will actually be more like 2 weeks!)

Your dd should receive an email from UCAS today/tomorrow confirming that she’s submitted her part.
Then when school/college finally do their bit she’ll receive another confirmation, plus her login details to get onto “Track” and then emails from each uni will arrive confirming that they’ve received her application.

And then she can sit back and wait for the offers/interviews to roll in!

www.ucas.com/connect/blogs/applying-15-october-deadline-make-sure-you-avoid-these-last-minute-dramas

There you go kitten, it tells you what happens after they hit send when they are applying through college.

Thanks knitting and msdragon. She thinks she managed the latest homework ok so we will see how that went and then I will decide whether to step in. I will get her to look at the videos anyway.

NoHaudin might it help to look up a video on that topic online? A lot of my students find that easier than managing to find me at lunchtime. There are some good videos on khan academy, or loads of examples and worked solutions on physicsandmathstutor.com. If she still doesn't understand then she may need you to step in. None of us ever mind someone asking for help, even via their parent if there is a reason they can't ask themselves.

NoHaudin Please step in on her behalf. I nearly gave up my course at uni in the second week because I couldn't get something to melt and so work out what it was. I spent two weeks totally stuck and not knowing what to do. It was horrible. I was 18 and supposedly at the top of my game but I didn't know where to turn. You don't build confidence overnight and something like this can knock you even further back.

(For anyone who is wondering, I had a full set of the highest A levels you could have at that time but had no confidence so leaped to the conclusion that it was All My Fault rather than the melting point being higher than the top temperature of the machine)

Congratulations Lobster! That's great news.

Lobster congratulations. It couldn't have been any faster!

DD has finished her PC etc but can't get anyone to check it yet as the staff are all involved with the Oxbridge applicants of which there are quite a few.
She needs to email on of her university choices to ask about applying for different courses at the same university, but keeps forgetting.

She is also struggling with one maths topic. She can't ask the teacher as part of the problem is the way he is teaching it. Specialist school so the place is awash with maths teachers but though she is more comfortable about asking for help in or after a class, seeking out another teacher is beyond her.
I am not sure whether to intervene. The difficulty in asking for help is due to her SEN but on the other hand she is 17.

Wow Lobster congratulations on the offer - that was super fast!

Chocolate I'm still trying to figure teenage relationships out! Like the UCAS form submission, they all seem unnecessarily protracted and complicated. Kitten I'm with you on how to form fill! This is making the passport renewal form look easy - even the bit where you have to hunt down a 'professional' to sign the form & photo!

Thankyou all! We will both sleep better tonight I think!
I hope all the universities are as speedy and all of our dcs have lots of lovely offers very soon!

Ooh Lobster. How exciting.

Wow! Congratulations to your DD Lobster

Whoop whoop, well done lobsters Dd. Lobster you can sleep now
It's really good to know.

Lobster I'm so pleased, I really am. It feels like a little victory for us all, a taste of what is to come.

That is amazingly quick Lobster. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Lobster! The first but not the last I'm sure.

Wow Lobster. I think that's our first offer on the thread? Congratulations.

Forgot my news!

DD had an email from UCAS this morning confirming school had submitted her application. . .

Then this afternoon had her first offer!

Was not expecting any to be so fast!

She is chuffed I think, but suddenly feels very very real!!

Thanks Lobster - that's very helpful.

Still don't understand why she's already been round to meet his family if they're not "official" yet, but what the heck do I know - I'm old and was obviously never a teenager