Thread 30 Covid Cohort, Mad March Hareing Towards Exams

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This is a thread for supporting all young people post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting. It is respectfully requested that all are supportive and helpful to each other. If you want to start a debate, e.g state vs private, please don't within this thread. Please also be sensitive when responding to threads about grades.

Some of us have been here since first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. Everyone is welcome. It is hoped this will continue.

Our DS/DD may go down various paths (such as employment, apprenticeships, higher ed) We have decided for anyone interested they will most likely find us within the Further Ed board.

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I've made this one a little bit earlier as things are so busy, at home and on thread, so please feel free to use up previous thread first

@ChristopherTracy I hope it’s not too bad for you.
Mine have been off for a week, they’re off for ages. DS2 goes back for just over a week then is off on study leave. Scary how quickly it’s going.

Congratulations to everyone who has pushed the button it is all becoming so real now. DS still hasn't firmed yet but when he does will he get a confirmation email from UCAS or the university to say that he has chosen firm and insurance?

@ChristopherTracy. Hope it’s not too bad for you. I am on day 14 and officially negative now but still feeling cold like effects and tired. I had a few days of needing to sleep but otherwise it has just been a very bad cold. I hope it is similar or milder for you. Just let your body rest when you need to. Take care.

Got Ds to fill in his student finance form.
I'm glad i told him to do it with me downstairs, as it was fairly convoluted for a Ds with dyslexia.

DD checked UCAS this afternoon and was able to confirm for Southampton with Cardiff as insurance. I'm just pleased the decision has been made! Just accommodation to do tomorrow. @OrangeCinnamonCroissant Wessex Lane and Glen Eyre are favourites at the moment for DD as we managed to see inside GE and outside Wessex. Good luck to your DD.

Apologies Eww, I didn’t answer the college question. Truth is, I have no idea what order she’ll place them in! Hoping to conclude early this week, but in all honesty I don’t think she’s that fussed as there’s no guarantees of getting ones placed higher?

Nottingham Accommodation is open!

I checked when I got back from Swindon and it opened at midnight!
DD finally agreed to go for 3 Rutland options (did want Crips but single was not option and I said no to paying for single plus and ensuite there, so she finally agreed to (in order)
Rutland - Single +
Rutland - Ensuite
Rutland - Single

Good luck everyone who need accommodation at Nottingham Uni

@crazycrofter, @Oblomov22 @singingstones
Accommodation is open

@ChristopherTracy, @JustHereWithMyPopcorn, @mummyinbeds Nottingham accommodation is now open

Sorry if I've missed anyone.

Nottingham accommodation has crashed 😱

at least if it's crashed for you it will also be down for everyone else trying... It was slow for me but did work.

@Heifer Can I ask, when you clicked onto the portal, were you stuck on a page just with the text 'Accommodation' in the centre and with the tab at the top saying 'please wait'?

We've been here for a while now and wanted to make sure that it wasn't something wrong our end.

Thanks!

I had a problem at first because I tried it before midnight then when I went to go back after midnight it just hung so I started again tbh and when I tried to log back in again it was all fine - it was slow though but my wheel thing did keep spinning round so I knew it hadn't crashed - hope that makes sense

Someone on a different forum just said they went back to the link on the email and logged in that way and it's worked better?

Finally worked but couldn't upload a photo. DS can worry about that later. His choices were

Rutland - single
Rutland - single+
Sherwood - single

Fingers crossed for Rutland. Hope everyone else manages to get into the booking system.

@Heifer
THANK YOU! This worked! You have just saved me a night's sleep!

Thanks for the heads up, All done this end and worked fine at 0530 when I pinged awake for some reason!
DS wants self catered so went for Broadgate and Dagfa.

Just done our booking. I was thinking about trying after midnight but fell asleep! Fingers crossed everyone gets the accommodation they want!

@Heifer Thank you for the heads up/link/advice. I've only just woken up/seen the links. I was asleep till now.
You were right Heifer. Nottingham accommodation opened at midnight. Ds completed his at 7.21am when he woke up.

Unbeknown to me he went for:

1. Rutland
2. Sherwood
3. Riverside
4. Raleigh

Completed at 7.21

He says he only chose 4 options. But that you can choose a maximum of 6.
And that you get notified within 4 wheels.

Congratulations to all others on success. It's only because we're a lovely bunch that we've had such success. We should all be proud. I am. Of us as a group I mean! ❤️

I asked him if he needed to pay a £250 deposit yet and he says no.

Glad it worked for everyone - I was really worried I would wake some you up and you would be cross!

To be fair - it looks like the time you do it may not matter, as says it's done by date order you applied so as long as it's done today I think you may still get the same priority as those that did it at 12.01am (me) :-)

Good luck everyone I hope you get what your DD/DS wanted (well what you wanted them to want ;-)

@Oblomov22

I asked him if he needed to pay a £250 deposit yet and he says no.

I wonder if the deposit is requested once they have been allocated accommodation. I did read that they have to accept the accommodation quite quickly after being allocated so watch out for the email (I've set DDs emails to copy onto my account) as she will not remember to look at a brand new email account just for this!

You were worried we'd be cross?
Heifer you're a fxxking ⭐️.

I feel so incredibly happy.

Accommodation allocation is so unfair. I think all unis should have the same process. What about people still waiting for offers? I feel it's forcing them into withdrawing other applications in order to try and firm accommodation.

Setting their emails to auto forward to yourself is a genius idea, thanks Heifer

Completely agree NCTDN, it's a very underhand tactic.