Applying for Uni 2019 Part 8: Results Day - congratulations, champagne, clearance, commiserations... Our DC will get through it whatever happens.

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Following on from our previous thread.

Good luck to all DC awaiting results and university places.

School question: Is it only the SLT and the Exams Officer(s) who get to see the results today?

Good luck everyone!!!

I am sitting here wanting g to puke with anxiety.
Ds has hidden in his room all night.
His college email the results at 6.30am.

He could do well or could bomb. There is no predictability or certainty.

It's awful.

Next week I have GCSE results for ds2.

Can’t believe those OCR English boundaries! So high! My DD did Eng Lit, but I think it was AQA. We are in Canada atm so will need to get up in the night for results. And then stay up if there is any sorting out to do.
Good luck everyone!

Morning. Hope everyone else has had a better night’s sleep. Good luck for the day.

Just made the mistake of checking dd’s course in clearing and they’re asking a grade HIGHER than the requirement in the prospectus and her offer, and say the clearing grade shown supersedes that shown in the 2019 prospectus. Feeling sick!

I’m awake too. Fingers crossed for everyone later

Morning Decorhate. My dd up now. She’s had nervous diarrhoea all week!

Hello! Just woke up, DS still sleeping,

Morning Shimy

@Dunlurking I’m sure her uni will still have to honour the initial offer they made to her, although I can see the implication if she misses her grade. Luckily there are lots of other good Unis in Clearing this yr.

Thanks Shimy At least her insurance seem to be dropping grades so fingers crossed. Good luck to your ds.

Morning all. Another one awake here - DS still asleep as far as I know. He gets results at 6 online so not long to wait now.

Morning LaBelleSauvage. Good luck to your ds.

Miljah

Just picking up on your Art Foundation concerns. One of my DC has just finished one and about to go to uni, though a different art related subject, not GD.
You are right in that the uni application deadline falls before most Art Foundation students have even decided on their 'pathway'. The first term and even up to about half term or beyond in the Spring is about putting your previous specialism 'on hold' for a bit and trying lots of new stuff. The most valuable aspect (and what non AF students probably won't have) is life drawing. Endless hours of it, really uncomfortable for them in the first week but soon becomes very normal.
Universities that my DC applied to
were very keen to see lots of this in the portfolio.

The AF tutors were not particularly helpful in putting a portfolio together, they did review them but their advice often differed from specific advice given on uni course open days. That might vary between tutors and institutions of course. Overall they were less involved and supportive than A level tutors and much more critical - this is probably good prep for independent work at uni. Also lots of peer review and sharing work in small and large groups.

My DC didn't seem to enjoy the overall experience as much as I expected, often operating out of comfort zone, but having to self-organise and deal with a wide range of tutors and challenging feedback was also good experience for eventual employment. To my eyes, the portfolio produced at school to get into AF looked more impressive than the one he produced on AF for the uni application. But the AF one included a much wider range of skills. Did get into first choice uni/course though.

DC has a friend who went straight from school to GD course without AF. After Year 1, friend says they can see the value of AF and wishes they had done one before choosing their current course. A uni tutor we know also said students with AF tend to 'hit the ground running' in Year 1 and in her view, that and the extra maturity, can make a grade's difference in degree outcome. Good luck to your DC!

I'm awake, too. Knew I shouldn't have had that gin!

Morning everyone.

Dd needs to go into school at 8

So no early news here. She's still asleep.

Morning Piggywaspushed and FrameyMcFrame Good luck for today.

I am now idling away the 20 minutes until I can check how my students did in their A Level. The grade boundaries for that subject looked reassuringly low , but not so much that I would wonder what had gone on. They aren't the greatest class I have ever taught so , once that anxiety is over, I can focus on the bigger anxiety ahead. Even though DS has his UC offer, I am terribly anxious : I have bought a Well Done card but can't even decide at what level I should write it out, if at all. It is really hard being the parent of a shirker...

My DH had to go through clearing to get into uni but this does not mean he will have any sympathy if DS bombs. Thanks God for MN!

I'm awake and results not until 8am
A loooong time!

I’m up too

I'm awake not up!
Although I might get up make a cup of tea....

DS’s results have been moved back to 6.30! Aargh

I’m awake. Got to wait until 8.30 to get the results.

For GCSEs the school system was available before the time they stated.

This year it's be email so I keep refreshing!

Morning all...I'm awake too. Slept a little and a few strange dreams! Not long to wait now!

De-lurking to say good morning and good luck to all DCs today.

DDs results are going to be emailed sometime after 6am so I’m waiting anxiously for a scream (good or bad) from her room. Her firm and insurance offers are both in clearing at one grade below regular offers but still needing an A in further maths which she is very doubtful about. So we might be looking at clearing.

I wonder what the next few hours will hold . . .