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?
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mumoverseas · 21/08/2010 14:53
(oh you've got quite a little one, haven't you? maybe postpone the 
till after they've all gone to bed then!)
Ponders, yes, 3 younger ones (so have to go through this torture 3 more times!) 
aged 15, 4 and 2!
DS has just said that a friend of his has a friend who got a rejection email from Durham today! That is just cruel, now the poor boy will be worrying all night about his grades 
that does seem cruel
Durham was his first choice? what grades? what was his second choice? I suppose it gives him time to think about his options...I bet he'd rather not have known until the morning though, poor lamb
(I can't imagine going through this in 2027. I wonder where the goalposts will be then )
oh christ, 2027! With a bit of luck I'll be dribbling in the corner of a nice old people's home then and will be blissfully unaware. DS has promised me that if/when he suceeds in becoming a top QC he will make sure I am in the best care home 
Yes, it is bloody cruel, don't know all the details, DS was just on FB with a friend who had been told that by another friend. All DS said was Durham was 1st choice and I think he said Southampton insurance. Imagine Durham wanted AAA but not sure. I had to wonder though about that poster yesterday who said she'd been sending out rejection letters yesterday. What if the post office (for once!) were super efficient and the letters were received today? Horrible
Yes, I thought that about those rejection letters - was hoping they wouldn't have gone out until after last post yesterday.
my eldest did her A levels in 2000 & 2011 seemed pretty bloody far away at that point - soon comes round though (& I'm not in a care home...yet...
)
(poor you having to be up that early with all those hours to wait!)
fingers & toes crossed for your DS, mos 
I believe they started off as Cambridge entrance exam papers in different subjects, but now it's just Maths, very hard, marked differently to A level papers (past papers don't have a Mark scheme, just "hints" how to approach questions), required by Oxbridge, Warwick, Bath and maybe Imperial. Apparently they show the way you think rather than what maths you have learned.
DD needs a 2 in either of the papers she sat, alongside the A*AB for her Bath offer, grade boundaries are looking quite high fir the difficulty of the papers she thinks though
thanks, Midnight
good luck to your DD then - hope she gets what she needs
oh great news, mos & midnight, well done them
DS2 has gone off to college - they don't get results until 10 & then he will be sure to make me wait for a bit because he is cruel like that (I blame the parents)
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great news, congrats to her (& you!) seimum!
& DS2 has his at Sheffield
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