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Dd's University offer

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bornwithaplasticspoon · 30/01/2016 13:57

Last week dd got an offer at a Russell group universty. It's her first choice. The course is very over subscribed so we knew it was a long shot. She was over the moon about the offer and the conditions are well within her reach.

Then yesterday she got an email saying that her offer is a 'contextual offer' which lower than a standard offer because our postcode is in a 'low participation neighbourhood' (deprived in other words).

It's knocked her a bit. She works really hard and was thrilled with her offer and now she's saying she only got in because of our postcode. She thinks the tutors and other students will know this and look down on her.

Anyone else experienced this? I wish they hadn't sent the email.

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Lweji · 30/01/2016 20:40

She still won it.

It's just that she doesn't come from a background where she'd be more likely to win it because she would have had better training.

She also still won it from all the others from her background. It must be very difficult in any case.

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MultishirkingAgain · 30/01/2016 20:45

She thinks the tutors and other students will know this and look down on her

Er no. Other students won't know unless she tells them. Us tutors are too stressed & overworked just calculated that this week I'll hit 70 hours to know, care, or bother. If she works hard, we'll love her! We really don't have time or emotional energy to "feel" anything much about our students apart from facilitating & pushing them to be the best they can be.

Maybe have a look at the Sutton Trust information? They say that attendance at a fee-paying school, a grammar or a school in a socio-economically advantaged area is worth up to 2 levels of grades at A level. or something like that

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Headofthehive55 · 30/01/2016 20:56

Oh tell her to grab it with both hands. I wish I'd have got a contextual offer -these days I expect I would- as I didn't get in (one grade in one subject less). Never got to go anything I wanted as much.
Congratulations. No one will ever know unless she tells them!

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Themodernuriahheep · 30/01/2016 20:59

Nonsense, if anything they will be in awe if they know at all. My mate x was the first person for years to go to HE from her comp, let alone a RG one. She was and is awesome.

Anyway, put it behind her, and if she can get that even higher grade, ducks to everyone else, and if not, so what. She's in .