Thread 25 - Covid Cohort - Christmas Trees, No Omicron Please!

Ah, Paddington, I’m thrilled for her!
It’s a lovely, friendly conservatoire, with so much going on and great links with BBC NOW and WNO.
I hope she’ll be very happy in Cardiff

Great news @singingstones and everyone else who has been receiving offers over the last few days. There seems to be a flurry of pre Christmas offers.

Well done on the dance and singing exams too, both excellent results.

Drum roll, DD has pressed the reply to offers in UCAS hub and accepted her offer at Royal Welsh College of Music! Still all very surreal and seems the next job is applying to student finance in March.

The Warwick Liberal Arts Course, does this beautifully though, and she has an offer from there. So that may be a better fit for her.

Yes I know there are fantastic free online courses, but studying at degree level has more cachet, and also she wants to use those skills within her degree.

They are almost limitless, unfortunately, makes it hard to choose, but she wants to combine history with at least elements of data analysis, and with increasing digitisation of archives and of qualitative information, this makes sense. And if she can’t get a job as a historian, and most history graduates can’t, the data analysis elements would , I think , make her more employable. The website is hard to navigate and the option that looked great for her has been withdrawn.Wonder if it might just be better to withdraw from that uni, although she has really good reasons for wanting to go, or opt for single honours and hope they let her do an additional class in data analysis. I have been really surprised at how few arts courses offer some combination with computer skills. It seems a missed trick to me.

Good news @singingstones! Today must be the last day in the office for universities then!

@Zebracat that is tricky; what are the options?

Congrats on the offer, singing stones.
Ours made a mistake on course selection. She doesn’t meet the criterion for half of a joint honours course so they have told her to pick something else but it’s so hard under pressure. I did keep telling her but she obviously thought I was nitpicking. So far have resisted saying I told you so.

Ah that's great Singing

Yes, that's currently the back up to the back up but may go up or down the preference list if / when he visits.

Offer klaxon - no. 2 has arrived, BBB from Aston

Aww thanks so much. She is v nonchalant about it all but she seems to consistently get high marks in her exams. After this one her dance teacher at her dance academy (she has 1-1 privates as was a late starter so we wanted to catch her up and then never stopped the 1-1s although does do other dance classes) has asked her to think about signing up for doing the dance associate - exams that I believe mean you can teach dance - but I don't know how one that takes.
We think we should probably definitely take a gap year now so phoned up Bristol UWE to ask them who said that they would need to know asap if that was the case and in writing. Oxford Brookes (her insurance) said to let them know after offers and exam results so two very extreme answers. Still have 3 more to ring but does anyone know the definitive answer? The gap year was always a thought but now she thinks she definitely will take one but put 2022 start on her ucas form when she submitted it back in October.

Her top choice Uni does have dance as a Uni course but not on the site she is on but she can shuttle bus between them. Drama is on her site so there will be clubs she can join I'm sure and she'll want to continue just to keep her hand in, unless she feels intimidated by the calibre.

Congratulations for all the offers and achievements

DD’s been testing negative on days 6 & 7, no coughing now, just exhausted. But I don’t think it helps having been cooped up in her room for a week. The US side of family got stood down last weekend by me, but hopefully her Gran can still be picked up xmas eve to come to a safe household. She’s refusing to come out early (or as per new guidance) just in case they’re wrong. Clearly irony not lost on her during self isolation.

Have a good look round on their web sites @NCTDN Student unions usually have their own pages, and the societies are usually listed there, often with their own pages too.

My DD wants to continue dance at uni. Some are much more forthcoming about their societies than others though!

Congrats to your DD Anne - fab news.

France has had 7 days for ages, so seems sensible. My DSD and DSS both have Covid - sore throat, tired but nothing more. Quite relieved about DSD as she has lung issues and I was concerned.

My DD is keen to continue her dancing at uni. She checked out her choices, and most seemed to have lots of different dance clubs and classes in lots of different styles, so she was really pleased!

In other news - have you all seen the reduction in isolation times if you have covid? Down to 7 days if you get negative LFTs in days 6 and 7!

.... has she checked out the Dance Societies at her shortlisted universities? My niece and DS1's GF have both had a great experience with University dancing.

Well done AoC DD, has she ch

Congratulations to your DD, Anne, fabulous results!

Tell us all how the dance teacher reacts Anne, it’s a great achievement, well done to your DD!