Applying for Uni 2019 Part 7: IB and A Levels are but a memory, we're relaxing and let's not even think about the 15 August yet!

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Carrying on from the previous thread which filled up very quickly.

, and for everyone

Well done to your DD Lillian
Why does she need a passport to collect her results?

French bureaucracy - you can't do anything without a pièce d'identité - all the French kids have ID cards. For some reason, they don't collect the results at their own school - she had to go to another school along with loads of other candidates who had done the same Bac as her and queue for a piece of paper giving her a breakdown of the marks. She then went to her own school where the teachers had organised a brunch to get her results validate and translated so she can send them off to Cardiff.

@liliangish - Well done to your DD. Great news!
I’ve heard great reports of Cardiff.

Well done Lillian's DD! That's fantastic news. Off on a new adventure.

Less great news from Team Bring. Target score missed. DC1 is calm though. Has already been on the phone to Firm and they'll have a decision next week. DC1's Extended Essay scored an A and was directly relevant to the degree, so they're going to take it into consideration. Hey ho

Keeping everything crossed for the rest of the IB crew.

@bringonthescience - Sorry to hear your news. Hopefully the firm will make a decision in his favour.
At least with IB you have got time to wait for a decision from your firm without it adversely affecting your chances in clearing.
Good luck xx

Thanks blame.
Very true - much less rush to make decisions!

All the best Bring. Hope next week brings the news you want.

Crossing fingers for DC1 BringontheScience. At least they are having a think and it's not a flat no.

BringontheScience sorry to hear that your DC1 missed target score. Fingers crossed that the firm choice will give a thumbs up to accepting them next week.

Thank you everyone! DC1 is being very pragmatic & calm about it all. I suspect thst they were so focussed on the Higher subject they knew was iffy (and actually nailed!) that they slightly eased off on a couple of the stronger ones. Two expected 6s became a 5 and a 4. Hey ho.

@BringOnTheScience hoping next week brings good news for your DS. But if not hopefully he’s met the conditions for his insurance choice, and knows he definitely has a university place.

@LillianGish congratulations to your Dd, I hope she can now chill and enjoy the long summer break

Not wishing to derail this much valued yr13 & results thread, but do really want to know ... www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3630532-Presumptions-about-gender-not-a-trans-thread?watched=1

FWIW, BringOnTheScience I can well understand why you choose to use DC/they and in my head would always think it means non-determined gender rather than he/she. It's possibly an approach that more of us should use. I guess we are sometimes lazy and default to he because most likely it's how society/cultural norms trained us, not so many moons ago. Doesn't make it right though.

On the subject of your DC1's grades, reminds me of the daughter of one of my closest friends. She managed ABB in her A Levels but the B for Geography was a disappointment (she was predicted an A). She had focused so hard on raising her Chemistry from a D to a B that the former suffered. Tis sometimes the way. I wouldn't be surprised if DS hasn't done the same - really worried about Govt. & Politics so over-compensated revision-wise whilst having a hunch that he's not achieved the predicted A/A* for Geography (the subject he wishes to study at university).

I think, bring, on this particular thread there are a lot of boy DCs. So, maybe we think everyone is a boy unless told otherwise?

Also, it may well be fleeting glances at the shapes of letters : DC looks more like DS than it does DD.

lastly, gendered language researchers would say that, no matter how hard one tries, one's language is gendered : so we can nearly always spot male posters on here. And the same applies when writing about people. Often people can tell whether the subject of writing or conversation is male or female, or they make assumptions.

None of that is me suggesting your DC is a DS!

I agree with pp. Often it's a gender stereotype (my ds is doing arts subjects but had I used dc most would have assumed female) and you do see this all the time in other threads where someone uses 'ds' but talks about a dance class and other posters assume girl, or 'dd' and a football team and others then use 'ds'.

Equally, I see plenty of times when one poster 'misgenders' another's dc and subsequent posters follow suit. People just don't read very clearly.

FWIW, I think I've always assumed you used dc to anonymise your dc not because they are non-binary etc.

Interestingly DD is the scientist and her BF is a humanities student.

On another point re gender what do people think of other languages (I'm thinking French and German here because I have studied them) where everything has a gender? It's ironic that French for baby is masculine regardless of its sex, and even more ironic that French for vagina is also masculine.

Then in German you have mascuine, feminie and neutral.

Are the feminists in these countries up in arms about this?

Are there any gender free languages out there, one wonders?

Congratulations to LillianGish’s DD! Lovely to hear that she has done well.

Fingers crossed for BringOnTheScience’s DC next week. FWIW I think the resilience that can be learned when they don’t do quite as well as expected is a very valuable thing. The ability to gather themselves and move on. Your DC sounds very together and that is admirable.

42 points!!! Boom!!
Sorry - super excited.
And DS’s two best friends got what they needed for university too.

Lillian congrats to your DD, that's great news. I know Cardiff a little and there's a lot to offer for a student, or even a parent visiting!

Bring, great it isn't a complete 'no' on phoning, hope next week gives your DC the news required.

We had a lovely day at DD's school. Awards (she got one), lunch (including lots bubbles and wineand Leavers Ball. Perfect evening weatherwise, chapel (leavers from choir sang the roof off and had a great time), meal, more bubbles and wine, fireworks, live band.

Stayed overnight in hotel, while having breakfast two girls required IB results, both in tears as one got her firm, the other missed her insurance by 6 points so that was a bit heart wrenching to watch. Beginning to hear about her friends, a couple got 41 and 44, two missed their firm, one or two got less points than predicted (don't know what this means yet regarding unis) and worryingly she hasn't heard from her main friend of the group.

Well done to your DC Blame

Blame that's fantastic news. Which uni is he going to?

Having revised really hard to learn the IB points system, I can confidently say that is brilliant ! Hooray.

Thank you all!
DS is off to Nottingham university.
We can head to Ikea now for all the essentials.
Before that (and obviously equally importantly!) he’s off to ‘Spoons with his mates! I’ll make sure we have some paracetamol in for the morning.

Well done to your son Blame, wonderful news and a relief after so much work. Enjoy your shopping! (Don’t forget to get Ikea meat balls!)