Finishing Year 13 / Exam Results support thread (number 6!)

Hope all is well with your DC Littleham.

Also hoping well for your DC.

I hope it's not a serious worry Littleham.

Sorry about your towels, mumslife, but that did make me laugh! How do you like DD'd hair?

Evening all! Exams seem aaaages ago, don't they? Haven't really had time to dwell on results day as helping DS prepare for his trip to S Africa. Prob for the best!!
Once he's gone on Thurs I'll start my results day countdown!

Have a great holiday MrsB. DD puttting in quite a few work shifts between socialising, so hopefully taking her mind off it. Find she gets worse when it gets very close.

Oh dear I'm so sorry to hear about your DD welshpixie. The having to wait until A Levels are out must make it infinitely worse. I'll cross my fingers - it sometimes works.

Littleham DS3 is Somewhere in Europe with friends but I'm not sure where. Between Prague and Germany I think. His brother got a message a week ago but nothing else. I'm assuming they're fine. I'm relying on other mothers with sons with smarter phones to tell me if things go awry.

It is all so stressful - roll on results day so we know what we are dealing with. We are off on holiday next weekend and then when we get back it will be August - not that I am counting down the days or anything

Very similar here, MrsB. Insurance choice lowest offer but furthest away., Though guarantees accommodation. Also less likely to drop. Real 2nd choice same offer as first, but technically higher as asking for highest grade in man subject where others not. also known to be problematic on accommodation.
Has a EE Music school place too which was a back up, but where it started out 50/50 between that and Uni, increasingly thinking not such a good idea.

No not at the moment, circular - like you say we are just keeping everything crossed and we will cross that bridge when (if) we come to it. Dd's problem is that her insurance place is not her actual second choice but strategically was the only one she could put due to the offers she had. Given how expensive university is these days I don't want to push her into going to her insurance place if she doesn't really want to go there as I can imagine her dropping out. Still really hoping it won't come to that but lots of her friends who did the IB didn't make the grades for their firms so it has brought it home how much of a possibility that is Let's hope we are worrying for nothing!

MrsB Are you actively looking into retake possibilities or just keeping everything crossed for now?
I am really confused as to whether yo can just take one or two modules to push grades up, or need to retake the whole A level?
I remember last year DD was convinced that her AS results would not be enough to get back into school. So we had liked into alternatives then, vp but there seemed to be more options at th end if year 12.

circular - we are in exactly the same position here with dd saying she won't go anywhere other than her first choice despite feeling that her A levels didn't go that well and so quite possible that she won't have secured her place at her first choice - aaargh! She is also talking about a gap year and re-applying. I can't bear to read the thread on the Higher Education board about preparing for university as I am not sure enough yet that we will need it!

Hope it all works out Welshpixie and It doesn't become too stressful if your DD chooses to wait. Keep us posted of course.

All school and music school related activities now over for DD. Been a very emotional week, but a quiet weekend. A few extra work shifts and a party next week.
She is starting to think forward a bit more and is saying will not go anywhere other than her first choice Uni. I can see her logic, as her specialism not suited to most Uni courses. But she also thinks she has missed her offer, and whilst they hinted not everyone meets it, will depend on how many grades dropped. Also noted that her course is in clearing, not sure whether that is a good or bad sign for those with offers.
So already talking about retaking and reapplying next year. I suspect this would need to be done privately, and could prove difficult.
I know we won't know anything until the big day, but feeling kind of helpless.

What is she wanting to study welshpixie - is it medicine?

Sorry to hear that welshpixie it's not very nice to have waited for results and still have no conclusion.

5 wks today until A level results wish the results were all announced at the same time.

Thanks everyone, her insurance is unconditional for Leicester she is seriously thinking about telling Cambridge no.It doesn't help we are in the process of moving house and at the moment we are staying with my parents, if something can go wrong this last week it has done. She just wants it sorted and I have to say the admins in Leicester have been so nice and accommodating she just wants some stability bless her.

Hope they accept her welshpixie, fingers crossed for her.

Sorry to hear that welshpixie. Lots of the girls at dd's school who did the IB missed their first choices including several with Oxbridge offers. Somewhat ironically, dd's best friend who was rejected by Cambridge scored more highly than most of the offers given out by them! Did your dd get enough for her insurance and would she be happy with that?

DD got her IB results on Monday, they are lower than the requirement for Cambridge, but they have not rejected her, yet, so we are now in a waiting game to se if they will take her or not. I wish they would make a decision if they do not want her then she can get on sorting out her insurance, but we may have to wait until the A'levels are out. I think she will be telling them to take a running jump by then.