To feel slightly embarrassed to say which university my daughter is at?

[sheepdontfly]

Can no one start shouting horrible things to me please? I'm wondering if anyone else knows what I mean and can tell me that they have felt the same or similar.

My daughter has started university this September and so have lots of my friends children. Also her older sibling went to one of the best unis for their subject and a lot of my friends know this, so they automatically are interested in my daughters university. I mentioned it to the first friend and their response was "oh, isn't that really far down in the boards, why did she pick there?" And I was a bit surprised at someone replying that and since I haven't really wanted to tell people where she goes.

I did say to another friend and although she didn't say the same, she did say "well yes quite hard to get into good unis nowadays" and now I'm extremely conscious of it.

Hertfordshire sounds pretty good to me.

Be proud of your daughter. She’s done well to get into university. It doesn’t matter which uni she goes to as long as it provides the course she wants to do and she’s happy there. Some people are so focused on league tables but league table positions vary from place to place according to the type of course you’re looking at. Just looking at the overall rating doesn’t give a true picture of where the university stands in terms of individual courses. When we looked at universities for my son we went into one RG university and turned around and walked straight back out again. They were unfriendly and unhelpful. The course he wanted to do only showed an interest in him when he said he played national league basketball. His grades would have easily got him in to the RG uni but I don’t think he would have thrived there. He went to a lesser known university, had a great time, made great friends and came out with a 1st. Be proud of your daughter. There is a lot of snobbery around universities, a lot of which is totally unfounded. If your friends can’t be happy for your daughter maybe it’s time to pick some friends who will be happy for her.