Anyone want to join a year 13 UCAS THREAD?

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We can join in stressing about ucas forms interviews etc?

I am finding it all a very steep learning curve - we could support one another - celebrate and commiserate?

My son is also getting fed up with the 'childish' parts of schools. I suppose if you go to a sixth form college you don't get this. He's always late as can't see why he needs to be in for assembly/abbey, finds being pulled up for having the wrong shoes or shirt out as an 18 year old ridiculous and actually I have some sympathy for him.

He is also spending ages putting the finishing touches to his PS I feel to the detriment of his work. I just want it submitted and out of the way.

I didn't get any more info about this £10 for predicted grades thing, but he was definitely told that they are not for public discussion.

actually case in point - ds has always had wednesday afternoons off but school have just implemented a rule whereby they have to hang around at school ( 10 miles away) for afternoon registration - drives him nuts

i tell him to skive but he wont!

Intreresting. DS1 hates petty rules so he would just leave, before lunch, and absolutely not stay for registration. DS1 is a mixture of a rebel and a model student. He's unfailingly polite and puts his hands up smilingly when he gets caught missing Abbey etc, so they find it difficult to get cross with him properly. Which makes things worse really as he treats all the staff like tame, toothless tigers.

Roll on summer.

woohoo ds has another offer although we dont know what so yet

Where else other than Cambridge and Durham did he apply. It can only be one of three places, can't it? As Cambridge will need to interview him first.

DS has only applied for 4 medicine places, he didn't make a 5th other choice. They all interview so it's going to be a long process for him.

Meant to say. Well done him.

Swedes he applied Bath Edinburgh UCL
Bath and Durham offered without interview which is so nice and easy
ucl interviewed last week and they offered but dont know what yet
no news from E or C but i think Edinburgh wait for everyones ucas to be in which seems wise

Hi everyone my ds1 is doing all this business too...He is applying to unis and music colleges so double the fun! And cost - you basically pay the colleges to audition you

However he is pretty much managing the whole thing on his own so I am grateful for that. Interviews and audition dates at 3 so far

Good luck all

welcome soyabean - what fun that sounds and congratulations on the interviews/auditions

ds was thinking of drama school for a while and i was at the having to pay for your audition.

hope they go well

DS1 has been called to interview by Newcastle Med School..... next week, so v soon.

woohoo fabulous!
where else has he applied?

bumping for swedes!

Sorry. He's also applied to UCL, Barts and Sheffield. He didn't make a fifth choice as he is absolutely certain about medicine.

I'm not sure what he should wear for the interviews. He doesn't want to wear a suit and I feel that's right but not entirely sure.

Good point Swedes; I hadn't thought about clothes and I'm sure ds hasn't either.

Something odd happening when I try to post...

Ds has jeans/ tshirts and concert dress and nothing much in between... I wonder what is eexpected?

I bought him a pair of navy moleskin trousers today, they look v smart. Gawd knows what he's going to wear with them though.

That's the trouble - I could buy trousers and he cd borrow a shirt from dh but then he'd need shoes too... Will consult him tomorrow

Is he a choral scholar or something?

Or at a Stenier school?

DS wear suits for school every day. I've just been to ask him and he wants to wear

those new trousers
the nice pale blue shirt
blue and green knitted silk tie
and a jumper

I'm not sure if he shouldn't wear a jacket instead of the jumper? Arghhhhhh

DS's friend wore jeans, white shirt & black leather jacket (all smart, not scruffy) to his Oxford interview. He got in.

My DS has been called for interview at Manchester in two weeks. He is going to have to leave the house at 6am to make his 11am interview!

I imagine that he will just wear his school clothes (business suit and 6th form tie). If he wants to wear casual, he is going to have to buy something new as everything he has is too scruffy/too small/damaged/hideous.

Fivesetsofschoolfees - Oh please send him the night before. Book him into a travelodge or a B&B - he can then go out for a pizza watch tv and relax and get up at a sensible time.

If anyone gets an interview in London and lives a long way away, we are just 24mins from v central London and they are v welcome to come and overnight here.

Rusty - You always hear about people who wore scruffy this and scruffy that and got into so and so, but I wonder how much of it is actually true. I bet he wore a shiny suit and polyester tie like everyone else.

Well, if he did, he did a quick change on the train on the way back! - I saw him at the station when I was picking up DD.

He is a slightly strange character though (in the nicest possible way) - apparently at the interview they asked him to give an approximation of pi - he gave it to 50 places.....
He's also the only person I know apart from me who can recite on demand all the king's & queens of England since the Norman Conquest with their dates.

omg kings

It's tricky isn't it? I don't want my son to feel uncomfortable or overdressed at interview but then again I don't want him to blow his chances by offending the admissions tutors by not dressing sufficiently smartly/formally. I think he will be fine whatever he decides. He doesn't need a formal suit to compensate for anything in his character or genuine enthusiasm for medicine. And I think he feels that's how a suit comes across.