wooooo hoooo ty for your advice mumsnetters

[dracschick]

Long story cut short [unlike me ]

Ds1 did well in his GCSES could have done better though.

Done really well in his As and then came uni apps - he wants to do law .....told his tutor he was gonna apply to Mancs- tutor says dont,they want As at gcse and you dont have them.

Ds was gutted.

So after kicks up the arse advice on here he still applied to Mancs and went in to see the admissions officer.

Hes been offered a conditional place!!!

hes thrilled as 4 out of his 5 uni choices have come back as a yes and we are still waiting to hear from the 5th one.

Hes gone in today to tell his tutor the good news and I hope the tutor doesnt dash anyone elses hopes.

(fingers crossed all our dc get the results they need)

Well done to him Dracschick (and to you for helping him find out the right advice )

Congratulations. Fantastic news.

congratulations. My DS has also applied to read law and so far has 3 offers.

Thank you so much for posting this - ds is my eldest, currently lower 6th and wanting to go to uni - obsessing about history at oxford - but that 's typical as he's asd. It is great to hear positive stories of what really happens - it's easy to feel trapped by wha the school says - and they constantly under-estimate him. Happens a lot with any special need, the'poor dear' syndrome, took me a few years to realise that 'he's doing so well' translated as 'we have no expectations so it' all fine'

not that I'm bitter!!

YAYYYYYYYYY ALL 5 HAVE GIVEN HIM CONDITIONAL PLACES!!!!!!!

RPT my ds is passionate about history too and we always thought thats what he'd follow but he had a taster day at college and loved law!!

The SN attitude you speak off is v familiar to me I get that with ds2 also when I was training Id be writing target sheets for my 'group' and a colleague said oh we dont do that - everything is a bonus I was and said a target never hurt anyone.

Your ds will prove 'em all wrong!!!