Year 13 -2025/26 - Support, discussion and looking after each other (new thread from y12)

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Hello
I have started a new thread following on from this one
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/further_education/5340007-year-12-202425-support-discussion-and-looking-after-each-other-thread-2?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

That sounds like they were very hard exams @gingercat02 so he's done very well! Keeping my fingers crossed for his Business exam.

@gingercat02 good news on the mock results for your DS!

I am quietly watching you all and willing your YP on, great that so many offers have been made and they are getting where they want.

I don't have anything to add yet as we are 3 interviews down out of 4, with the last one next week so still no offer news. The medicine application process is grindingly slow so I am trying to keep DD positive whilst wishing the weeks away 😂.

DD has her bio and psych mock results back so far (both A*) and is awaiting chem which she predicts an A so that side of things is on track thank goodness.

Are anyone's YP mocks much later than Feb? It is nice to have that over for DD so she can focus on finishing the content and revision now.

Wow, it’s such a slog for the aspiring medics @bluefineliner. But getting 4 interviews out of 4 is so impressive. I hope your DD’s first offer lands very soon.

DD actually has 2 sets of mocks coming up - first lot in Feb, and I am a bit vague on when they are fitting 2nd mocks in!

Very best of luck to those expecting Cambridge outcomes today.

Great mock results for your DD @bluefineliner and amazing that she has four interviews! I am sure the offers will come very soon.

Good luck to the Cambridge applicants today, keeping my fingers crossed for positive outcomes.

Agree with @JessyCarr and @JustHereWithMyPopcorn- fantastic to have 4 interviews @bluefineliner.

We are still waiting on one offer and it’s doing my head in! Although apparently I’m back on “need to know” household status so I’m finding things out a day later than DH 🙄

They are great mock results @gingercat02. Well done to your DS. I hope the business result was good 🤞

Best of luck to your dd for her interview and mocks @JessyCarrand also to those waiting for Cambridge offers today 🤞

Hello, could anyone let me know if their child has had a OHD invitation from Exeter please? My son had an offer on 22 Dec when it said it would be sent soon. Son is laid back to the point of horizontal and has previously missed things emailed to him. He has asked me to stop asking him!

The offer is to do PPE - not sure if different courses are on different days. Many thanks.

Well done with the interviews - it’s a lot on top
of everything else going on for them atm.

Still no mock results here yet. DS is distinctly unbothered!

I found out last night that one of our local private sixth form colleges does 3 sets of mocks in year 13 - that seems excessive but they are highly selective and I suspect wouldn’t enter students for the final exams if their grades aren’t A or A⭐️

Good luck today to the Cambridge aspirants.

DS had an OHD invite for history from Exeter several weeks back (offer back in October) . He’s not going though so I haven’t taken much notice, sorry.

@englishmummyinwales DC has had an OHD invite from Exeter (but isn't going as went to the open day and prioritising visiting 2 other universities)

Thank you. What subject was that for?

Mixed Cambridge news from DD’s school today. It’s tough when it’s all so public, on a school day. Back in my (ancient) vintage, Oxbridge outcomes came out in Christmas week so were digested at home first.

Unexpectedly, DD has had an offer from France (Sciences Po) after what had seemed such a tricky interview. She is over the moon!

@JessyCarrcongratulations, hope that’s what your DD was waiting for.
Mixed results at DDs school too, she got offer from a different college to the one we applied for, so instead of celebrating she is now confused.
I got whatsapp msgs and then a sneaky call from school toilet. So haven’t talked to her yet, but I will let her decide on that.
No news from Imperial yet after applying in OcT, so this is not going to be an easy decision.I have no idea , how the college and academic situations work, trying to read it now that we have the email. Offer asks for A* in FM so that’s there :)

@JessyCarrcongratulations, hope that’s what your DD was waiting for.
Mixed results at DDs school too, she got offer from a different college to the one we applied for, so instead of celebrating she is now confused.
I got whatsapp msgs and then a sneaky call from school toilet. So haven’t talked to her yet, but I will let her decide on that.
No news from Imperial yet after applying in OcT, so this is not going to be an easy decision.I have no idea , how the college and academic situations work, trying to read it now that we have the email. Offer asks for A* in FM so that’s there :)

Congratulations to your DD’s @Newlease and @JessyCarr 👏🏻👏🏻

Click post way soon, we still
not had done any mocks, it’s at the end of FEB, week after half term. Not sure if that’s good thing in terms of too close to Exams, but the with Cambridge tests and interviews, this would give them enough time to catch up.
@gingercat02good results from mocks. @Ventresshope you are doing well and DS hopefully will share with you soon!

@Newlease A Cambridge offer - congratulations to your DD! I hope the college change doesn’t spoil her news. People tend to be happy where they end up, and it’s wise not to get too attached to any particular college in advance.

That is fantastic @JessyCarr. Well done to your daughter!

Congratualtions to your dd @Newlease

Both girls should be very proud of themselves 💐

Congrats to your DDs @JessyCarr and @Newlease fab news!!

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@Newlease congratulations on the Cambridge offer for your DD! How exciting.

@JessyCarr congratulations to your DD on the Sciences Po offer. Do you think this will be her preference?

Congratulations @JessyCarrand @Newlease

Thanks everyone. @bluefineliner - yes, it is her favourite. It is also unconditional, so I have made her promise not to slack off on A Levels. She says she is committed to doing her very best.

We do have concerns about whether the course, and particularly the very intense French teaching and assessment style, is really right for her. She has dyslexia and (medicated) ADHD, and has needed considerable support from us in staying organised, meeting deadlines and coping with exam pressure. Whether 6-day teaching weeks and constant exams will be the right recipe remains to be seen. But she is an adult and must shape her own future. And own her choices!

DD got her first med offer today for Leeds! Huge relief all round and a very happy DD.

Congratulations to your DD @bluefineliner first one in the bag is a huge relief!

Great news @bluefineliner . Getting the first one is a huge relief for them.