2019 Uni Apps thread - the process begins!

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Well, things seem to have kicked of early here so I thought I would start up the Uni applications thread.

DS2 has just gone into 6th year and he's been asked (along with the rest of the year) to get the first draft of his personal statement in by Tuesday...

That's going to be a bit of a stretch given that he has no clue if he wants to go, what he would want to do, or any idea if he will realistically have the results to go. He definitely won't have based on 5th year as he (if he passes them) will only have 3 highers since he was redoing Maths Nat 5 and he dropped a higher. He didn't do well in the prelims but feels hopeful. He is currently doing 1 AH and another two highers.

Come 7th of August he may have a decent set of results, fail them all or something in-between, any of those scenarios are equally likely.

I appreciate they want to get them focused and on track but this is madness no?

Aurea, that wasn't meant to alarm. Apologies if it has. This was friends' children's experiences 2 and 3 years ago for two different (non Law) subjects. Engineering and Finance courses I believe but not sure exactly. Your son sounds incredibly organised, motivated and set on his path. It's fantastic he already has his draft personal statement. Leaves plenty of time for tinkering and finalising. My daughter keeps nodding in agreement that she needs to pull a draft together but at the moment it's more a collection of scribbled ideas I think. Also no, neither had 5 As, from memory, they were 4 As and 1B but on paper seemed to at least meet conditions. My recollection is both received unconditional offers from all other choices (all Scottish "traditional" universities) but conditionals for Glasgow and/or Edinburgh. Both are now at their first choice Unis doing well!

@hotgingerpudding and @glendee

Thank you for clarifying - phew! There's enough pressure on kids nowadays and if they achieve as good as possible grades and aren't recognised for their efforts it would be such a shame.