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Uni offers for 2017 start

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Carriemac · 19/10/2016 07:25

Could we have a handholding thread? I have two DCs going through UCSS at the moment, would love to obsess here so I can appear calm on the outside.
LNAT results go to the UNIs tomorrow I think, so offers could be rolling in soon for DD who has applied for law.

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LittleHoHum · 06/12/2016 10:35

dd now has her fourth and final offer from Southampton for Physics and Maths. Smile She is very pleased and I suspect it will be hard to choose which one to firm / insure.

Well done on all the offers & good luck for interviews.

Plan some treats for yourself Needsmoresleep. Must be strange when they all leave home for the first time.

ono40 · 06/12/2016 11:04

DS has just had an unconditional from Birmingham for History which I am sure he will accept as it was his first choice. I'm in two minds about unconditional offers. A friend's son accepted one, took his foot off the pedal and ended up with BBC when he was predicted AAA.

TheMortificadosDragon · 06/12/2016 11:34

Good news littlehohum and ono ! Smile

Hopefully your DS won't relax too much, ono - tell him that some employers do look at A level grades, or there's always the bribery payment for grades option as a carrot.

ono40 · 06/12/2016 12:35

Thanks Dragon, I have told him exactly that! I know that many Graduate Training Schemes from multinationals require AAB as minimum.

tobee · 06/12/2016 22:15

Hi. Just what unis do interviews and for what subjects? Or does it vary year by year? Or what? When dd applied for years ago I thought it was only for very popular subjects at very popular unis.

tobee · 06/12/2016 22:16

That was meant to be "just wondering"

wohmum · 06/12/2016 22:26

Checking in over here. I've been lurking for a while. My DS has offers now from Southampton, warwick and Surrey for mech eng. he is set on Southamptoon which has come in a slightly higher offer than the others so he is now very motivated to work his socks off to get in. Let's hope it continues!

TwitterQueen1 · 07/12/2016 08:36

Major trauma in the Twitter household yesterday. DC only now realised that he had applied for a joint course at Exeter - Ancient History and History. Not what he wanted at all. Don't know how he managed to miss this in the application and the verification email they sent through.

Fortunately a phone call and email to the uni admissions has fixed this - hopefully! We are now very glad that they hadn't responded to his application!

TheMortificadosDragon · 07/12/2016 09:13

Good thing he realised and got it sorted. It probably isn't that uncommon, some places have a myriad of 'and' courses, also B or Masters - DD had me check all her codes.

aginghippy · 07/12/2016 11:49

Another mechanical engineering applicant here. DD has offers from Southampton, Sheffield and Manchester.

When she visited Southampton, she met a very enthusiastic student who said she got in even though her grades were lower than the offer. Even though she is still working hard, dd still mentions this student as a glimmer of hope if things go wrong.

dingit · 07/12/2016 12:16

Another one with an engineer Dd. The grades are scarily high aren't they? She has an offer from Southampton which lowers if she gets an A for her Epq. If they do drop a grade what happens? Do you have to phone and beg, or do they make the offer on track?

aginghippy · 07/12/2016 17:45

I think they do it on track. It happened like that to a colleague's son. He went to school, got disappointing results and assumed he would be going to his insurance choice. Eventually he went into track and saw he had been accepted by his first choice. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster!

buckingfrolicks · 07/12/2016 17:54

Wouldn't recommend Warwick for engineering at the mo.

CQ · 07/12/2016 17:54

So we survived the Cambridge engineering interview day. Worst part was the traffic to get the hell out. DS didn't finish till 5.15 so we hit rush hour. Park and ride scheme is all very well but it doesn't work without bus lanes! We didn't actually get in the car until 7.30, then a 2 hr drive home.

Anyway, he says the first interview was ok, second one tricky, so now we wait and see. It's in the lap of the gods.

He also got his Imperial offer - A*AAA. Gulp.

dingit · 07/12/2016 18:14

CQ that sounds exhausting.

Why not engineering at Warwick? Just being nosey, Dd hasn't applied there.

TheMortificadosDragon · 07/12/2016 18:16

CQ - DD just called - they're out of Cambridge en route to Sheffield, the hotel told them to forget the park and ride and use a taxi which only cost twice as much and was a lot quicker. Similar story, one nice interview, one not - maybe they all do good cop/bad cop?

jeanne16 · 07/12/2016 18:45

Buckingfrolics. Why are you saying not to apply to Warwick for engineering?

CharliePurple · 07/12/2016 19:24

CQ what a day! Fingers crossed now for good news soon.

DS has gone out for the evening, as he left he handed me a list of societies at his second choice (along with some other stuff). He's starred the ones he is interested in, one is the LGBT society. Is he trying to tell me something ?? Help !!

rightsofwomen · 07/12/2016 19:33

CQ my DS1 goes to 6th form in Cambridge. The traffic is horrendous....a city not really built for lots of cars and busses!
Glad you survived!

buckingfrolicks · 07/12/2016 22:40

DP Is ia professor in the dept. Maybe it's the same "behind the scenes" in all unis.

Waitingforsherlock · 07/12/2016 23:06

Everyone seems so far ahead of ds, his UCAS form went this morning. Gap year student applying for economics. So now the stress really starts for him I guess.

TheMortificadosDragon · 07/12/2016 23:45

This thread is a self-selecting sample, sherlock Grin elsewhere there are plenty of more laid-back kids or procrastinators (sometimes the school rather than the kid). Presumably your DS knows he has a place as soon as he gets the offer instead of waiting for A-levels so his stress will hopefully be short.Smile

wohmum · 08/12/2016 00:08

Waves back at aginghippy and dingit ... Yes my DS had a similar story sois hoping the same gain applies this year!

TheMortificadosDragon · 08/12/2016 09:13

Dingit - for the EEE at Southampton if they drop a grade, so long as they still have an A in maths iirc, they get enrolled on the BEng instead of the MEng but if the first year is ok then can do the M anyway. I'd guess thats a common approach on eng courses with high offers. I don't think they offered a discount for EPQ to DD but if she's done well she might contact them and ask, cant do any harm.

dingit · 08/12/2016 09:24

Dds offer was AAA for m eng dropping to A*AB for b eng.
I think this is similar for her other offers, in some ways they are lucky as they have a double offer for each. I don't think she's as clever as your Dd Errol, it will be touch and go for her Shock