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University offers for 2017 start (Part 2)

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EnormousTiger · 02/03/2017 11:21

Continuation of the original thread which is now on to 40 page maximum.
Original thread (part 1) here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/2759621-Uni-offers-for-2017-start?

Most offers now received. My twins have had offers from their 4 and are currently deciding which will be firm and which insurance. One twin
( possibly two of them) is going to an offer holders' day coming up at Bristol next month with his friends from school.

OP posts:
Stopyourhavering · 17/08/2017 15:06

After a tense few hours, when ds didn't get first choice and then decided he didn't want his insurance ( which had been made unconditional!).... went back to first choice uni to see what they could offer him and is now doing Geography and Environmental science...gets to keep his accommodation and gets a £2k bursary to boot!... so relieved and pleased for him....he leaves in 2 weeks though!

PennyForum · 17/08/2017 15:17

Mine needed A* in Maths A in F Maths and a third A.
Got A A and B, missing the A by one ums. So in for first choice at Warwick and very happy, but was eligible for adjustment and clicked on the button to find out more about it and has registered without meaning too as well.
Quick google has reassured us but if they realise that everyone makes the same error why not make it a two click process rather than panicking us all!, as if we needed more stress?

Does anyone know if clicking the adjustment button makes any difference to accommodation allocation ?

HSMMaCM · 17/08/2017 15:53

Penny. That's exactly what DD did. She said she just clicked the next button to read more and it suddenly said she was registered for adjustment.

AgathaMystery · 17/08/2017 15:59

Baby brother is in - Kings College London for BMS (he needed AAA & was accepted on ABB) ploughed his 1st year of A levels and went back to the start. Unbelievable turn around from C,D,U in 2015! Wine

Snapespeare · 17/08/2017 16:03

DS got two Es.

He started refusing school in year 10, bullied, undiagnosed Aspergers. School did very little to help. I had to fight the local authority for scraps of education for him. He managed to get three GCSEs two years ago. LA wouldn't agree A levels, so he missed the first term. They then agreed four hours a week of tuition. When he turned 18 and was passed to adult mental health services, he was diagnosed with ADHD that has only been medicated since March of this year. He's not got onto the course he wants at local university, because he has nowhere near the UCAS points needed and is going to local college to do access to HE course. I'm very proud of him for sticking at A levels despite huge disadvantages and hopeful he'll do better at college.

LineysRun · 17/08/2017 16:24

Snapes that's great - good on you all. That's a massive family achievement.

HSMMaCM · 17/08/2017 16:38

Snapes it's lovely to see really resilient teenagers facing up to all the odds.

Snapespeare · 17/08/2017 17:07

Thank you! We'll get there, it's just going to take a bit longer. I'm delighted he'll be in mainstream education, he's been quite isolated and lonely, so this is a huge achievement for him. I'm bricking it, he's excited and positive! :-)

Lucysky2017 · 17/08/2017 17:37

Snape, well done him. My twins have a good few friends who have not got all these As etc parents go on about. Most people with the not so high grades simply don't alk about them so a lot of people get the impression everyone gets high grades which isn ot so and my mother, rightly, always gave us a bit of money BEFORE the results came out as it was for the effort and hard work not the results themselves. Very wise woman, she was. Which reminds me I have promised the twins a sum which I had better transfer now.

My older son got into Reading a few years back via clearing. He is really glad he managed to get a degree and that is just as much an achievement for him as anyone going elsewhere and with better grades.

FreedaDonkey · 17/08/2017 17:45

Sounds like he's really been through it Snape, well done to you both for sticking with it, it's been worth it Wine

cowgirlsareforever · 17/08/2017 17:50

You and your ds have been through the mill Snape so I echo others in saying well done. Remember that EE is exactly what Jeremy Corbyn got and whatever you may think about his politics, he's no fool.

user9512736123 · 17/08/2017 22:57

@Snapespeare your son is a real success story because his personal achievements trump any of the academic ones we've seen today.

Lindor · 18/08/2017 01:43

well done to all who are sorted and happy, and hope those of you with DC in clearing find what you want.

DD was very happy with her grades, ABB, but missed her first choice by one grade and had chosen an insurance with higher grades (!?).
However she got straight on the phone and now has a place at Cardiff Uni on a course very similar to her firm choice (It was one of her 5 original choices). Just waiting to get accommodation sorted now.

NameChangerGalore · 18/08/2017 07:17

Anyone else with a UCAS page that hasn't updated at all over the last 48 hours? 🤔🤔

LineysRun · 18/08/2017 07:54

Ours hadn't updated a Clearing offer and acceptance as of last night, NameChangerGalore which was causing some anxiety. Hopefully it will show this morning. Waiting for DS to wake up ...

GetAHaircutCarl · 18/08/2017 08:13

Both mine into firm choices after some wrangling over a missed grade.

I've now got to get my head around the fact that I'm not too many weeks, both my DC will leave and that this place - always full of noise and laughing and bickering - will be sooooooo empty.

LineysRun · 18/08/2017 08:19

Same here, GetAHaircutCarl. I'll be living on my own! But I have a lovely OH who has a very full house nearby where I am always welcome, so I guess I should feel lucky

GetAHaircutCarl · 18/08/2017 08:25

Borrowed children may be the way forward liney Grin.

I do have DH. And I'm quite fond of him but he doesn't teach me to dab, discuss how we might survive a zombie apocalypse or ask me to rank sandwich fillings in ascending order!

Don't get me wrong there are aspects I won't miss as I look at out garage door currently off its hinges where DS tried to reverse out without actually bloody opening it!!!!!

NameChangerGalore · 18/08/2017 08:28

Hmm, have got to the bottom of it! Seems the uni hadn't received the results, even though they had been sent from 2 separate sources several weeks ago....... assured me it won't be a problem. Now we wait!

stonecircle · 18/08/2017 08:42

OMG namechanger - that's awful! Hope you get it sorted soon.

NameChangerGalore · 18/08/2017 08:44

....... yep, and too early for gin!

LineysRun · 18/08/2017 08:48

I have a horrible feeling I had my first swig of wine at about 10am yesterday morning Blush

user9512736123 · 18/08/2017 09:02

@lineysrun I think you'll find it was grape juice 😀

Lucysky2017 · 18/08/2017 09:16

Glad the three of us with twins all now have twins sorted out with places. I still think one of mine will be upgraded to AAA like his twin (on a remark) but that is not that important for now (although AAA is a requirement for some jobs - it's the threshold so it could be very important - it was the D (of the AAAD on that subject) that led to the B overall for that grade- that one weird D. I was thinking about it in bed. Anyway we shall see. At least they both got in and are happy and I am very pleased for them.

Namechanger - how awful. I hope they sort it out today. If they got the grades then they will get the place. Universities are still filling places. My sons' friend is waiting for a call today - he doesn't want his back up choice now despite choosing it originally so trying to get in somewhere else. Over 25% got all As and 75% got 3 A* or A at my sibling's children's school which is very good indeed (this is not at my twins' school or I should say "old school").

Yes I will also be alone/ child free in mid September and my son says I am the only parent in the country who is looking forward to it (although I am sure I will miss them). May be I will crying into the phone at them by 1 October. My older son is moving into his own house at almost exactly the same time depending on the precise date his tenants move out and my second grand daughter is due the same weekend so it will be quite a weekend particularly now the twins know they will be at the same university (thus the same weekend), but probably different halls as they applied to different ones - we find out mid next week according to Bristol's website about halls.

Mind you students are home half the year anyway and my older 3 came back after graduation - the girls for 2 years of law school in London and even after that until they were able to afford somewhere else so I reckon it will be about 6 years before the twins are completely gone.

Good luck to those still looking today for a place.

aginghippy · 18/08/2017 09:24

NameChanger my dd had a similar thing.

It was some kind of administrative glitch at the school, which meant that the results for one of her A levels were not shown. She sent them all the results. Now they are saying they need an official confirmation from the college.