support thread for those of us who have DC submitting UCAS applications in the next few months

[mumoverseas]

Thought we should all get together and calm each other down/mop fevered brows/hand around glasses of wine etc. We've seen other go through it over the past few months and it will be our turn soon.

DS has just got his AS results which were not too bad. AAAB. The B suprised him as it was for maths and we'd expected a B for french which he had not studied for a few years as sat his GCSE early. He says he will re-sit one of the maths modules and one of French ones to get a higher A

He (we!) has been considering various Unis over recent months and has visited 4.
PS is all in hand as is extended project (whatever all that is about) but time is creeping by and not long now til his mid Oct deadline (one of his choices is Oxbridge)

There has been so much in the papers over recent days about the lack of places at University at the moment and stories of how so many good students did not get places as they didn't put 'insurance' choices.

How is everyone else coping and how do we get our children to make realistic choices?

oh that's good!

which places has your DD applied for, SV?

Bath, Birmingham, Lancaster, Southampton and Exeter for Pure Maths, after a LOT of stress (she had about 6 options for the final fifth choice). She considered Warwick, but they've now put their offer up to 2 A* A which is a lot of pressure.

Shrinking violet - so pleased the form has finally gone. Hope your DD gets some good offers very soon.

2 A* ????

She should hear very soon, all 5 of those have already started giving out Maths offers - fingers crossed!

Can we join the Southampton club? DD2 has an offer - she is thrilled as it has come in at AAB and we were expecting AAA.

Good luck to your DD Shrinking Violet - DD2 has Bath, Southampton, Exeter, Nottingham and York for Pure Maths. She has offers from Exeter and Southampton now less than two weeks after her form went in so hopefully your DD will hear soon.

Very relieved mum here. DD has just received offer of BBB to do Social and Economic History at Liverpool. She's predicted AAB and this was her "insurance policy", but she loved the course and the city when we visited, so might make her first choice even if she receives other offers. Fingers crossed she doesn't do anything silly over the next few months.

webwhiz welcome to the Southampton and Exeter club
Well done on all the offers coming in. Wish DS's insurance offer would come along, would be nice to know he had a safety net.

DD2 has her first offer - BBB from Oxford Brookes for History & Politics. It's her insurance choice, but at least we've got one!

I'm amazed at the grades being demanded for places these days - when we were going to Uni DH got into Cambridge with AAB!

well done seimum DD, must be a huge relief.

Thanks MOS - hope your DS gets his insurance offer soon.

Well done to your DD2 Seimum its a relief once they get the first one!

Seimum - well done!
And webwiz - congrats on the Soton offer, wouldnt it be fab if several of them went there!
Of course, we could set up a Bath club too!

no Bath club as DS didn't apply there
Maybe if a lot of them go to SH we should get them T shirts printed saying 'my mum is a MNer' or 'smile if your mum is a MNer'
a bit worried we've not heard from Oxford as apparently the interviews are the first week of December. Not looking promising

MOS - I hope your DS hears something soon.Can this be a case of no news being good news? After all, they can't interview EVERY good applicant in the first week on December. Can they?

Meant to add, love the idea of a MNer T-shirt for DCs.

ok, so has anyone heard ANYTHING from Oxford or Durham?

Mumoverseas Durham are usually very late with their offers so I wouldn't expect to hear anything from them for months. Can't help with Oxford though.

Oxford interview invitations should
be issued during the next week according to TSR. \link{http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1466697\In fact a few have already gone out - but very few by the looks!}

Durham have made some offers, but again not many (\link{http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1443332\esp not when compared with eg Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester & Nottingham})

Durham University

Accounting and Finance, Biological Anthropology (BBB), Chemistry (AAA), Computer Science (AAB), Economics and Politics, Education with English Studies (AAB), English (AAA), Geography, Geoscience (AAB), Law, Modern Languages, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Music, Physics (AAA), Psychology (AAA)

(Not that I spend hours poring over TSR or anything )

I'm like you Ponders - just come form there in fact!

For Oxford, it depends what your subject is when you might here: its also college dependent I think but you can expect to hear by 7 days before your interview date (you know that all subject interview dates are avaialbe on the admissions page? - they are not moveable except your DS will be different. MOS I guess, having to come so far). So you can work backwards. I'm expecteting that DD will hear by next Monday for English, for example.

And re Durham - lots of my DD's friedns have heard already for lots of different subjects : but equally, lots have heard nothing yet!

This waiting game is very tyring!

Oh for an 'edit' button...

when you might hear.... wouldn't get into Oxford for English on THAT basis, lol

thanks ladies. Was just a bit concerned that DS has gone 'silent' (ie no emails the past few days) and wondered if that meant he'd had a rejection and didn't want to tell me.

eek! didn't mean to look as supposed to be doing CPD but had just a sneaky look and to see that DS's insurance is offering AAA instead of AAB as he thought!

\link{http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/how_to_apply/interviews/interview_timetable.html\interview timetable}

It might not open straight away; I suspect the ox.ac website is getting a lot of hits at the moment

For PPE it's 8pm Sun 5 - 10am Wed 8 I assumed it would be a one-day job (but he's unlikely to get one anyway!)

mos, I don't know if the offers quoted on that TSR thread are universal or just what the people who've posted have received.

thanks for that ponders. I imagine that they will have to notify those being interviewed early next week.