Any parents of Y12 DCs up for a support thread?

[cardibach]

to get us through AS and university Open Days etc.?

Finally pinned down ds to booking some Open Days this afternoon / evening. Mostly having to go in Sept / Oct now though as can't make the June/July dates. Still, it feels a step further on, and he's been really enthused by it all, so, we'll see.

DD has finally booked a place on the Durham open day on 29th. She was quite excited to be going back to school today! Still revising for Core 3 on Thursday.

DS did core 4 yesterday and it seems it was a stinker (AQA). He went in to it quite confidently because he was getting consistently 100% UMS on his practice papers but reckons he dropped several marks. He is hoping he did well enough on Core 3 to get the A*. (It's an A2 not an AS).
Fingers crossed now until August.
Anyone else's DC going to the open day at Warwick on 21st?

Secret DD is really hoping for an A* too. She's trying so hard to get 90% in core 3 and core 4.

DD has finished at last. Biology seemed to go ok.

Another thanks for all the info on personal statements from everyone. I will point DD towards the students room site, which sounds very useful.

DD off to Coventry Open Day on Saturday with her dad (exH). Anyone else going?

Our DD next one is Falmouth, next Wednesday. Then Gloucester (well, Cheltenham campus) following Saturday.

I like this thread - it has other "ordinary" dc on, like my dc. Some MN threads only seem to have parents of the most high achieving children on

Core 3 done today and went ok thankfully. Core 4 next Tuesday and then she is finished and I think her brother (Y11) finishes the next day. Looking forward to next weds evening!

Me and DD1 off to Bath next Thursday and Warwick next Friday - anyone else going ? She is looking at modern language courses

DS went to a UCAS convention yesterday which he found really useful. He spoke to Imperial and they said to ring up to see if they will accept his Phylosophy A level result instead of a B at GCSE english.

He is booked at Nottingham, Leeds, Durham, Loughborough and Southampton and spending a week at Imperial.

That's a wide reaching lot of visits bruffin .
DS is going to Warwick next Friday but with college, then Durham.He has also booked Lancaster and Nottingham.
The Lancaster one is in August and I think I will take him to that one and have an overnight stay somewhere nearby. Nottingham we can't do until September.

Snowyowl, my DD also looking at modern languages. We went to Exeter on Tuesday and off to Warwick next Friday as well (see you there ). Unfortunately all the talks we would have gone to at Bath on Thursday are already fully booked so we're doing Bath in September and going to Birmingham on Thursday instead.

Are you doing anywhere else? We like the look of the languages courses at Southampton and Nottingham too. This Open Day lark is expensive isn't it! All she has to do now is get great AS results......

Legallady we are going to Birmingham and Southampton in September ! May see you in Warwick then !! DD1 wants to study French/German but was really upset after her German speaking AS exam as she went to pieces after doing a brilliant mock exam ! She is now convinced all the places she is looking at will be beyond her reach but predicted 4 As so think she will be ok ! But results day will tell !

Legallady you are right about it being expensive !! Already been to Cardiff requiring over night stay - away 2 nights this week and will have to stop over night in Southampton - only Birmingham is possible from South Yorkshire !! Well Warwick is but doing that on way back from Bath !

Fingers crossed for your DD Snowy - hopefully the German wasn't as bad as she thought. My DD wants to do French/Spanish but only doing French at AS (having dropped Spanish after gcse.) She didn't think this would be problematic but Bath, for example, requires you to have both languages at A2 if you want to do French and Spanish . Typically you can't do Spanish as a beginner language. She may have to go down the French/Italian route if she loves Bath enough and it does look fantastic.......

Is your DD doing both languages to A2? I do feel a bit bad as we advised DD to not do two languages at AS as we thought it would restrict her options for university - shows what we know

Oh yes, BackForGood, we do ordinary here!
DD has reported via text that Coventry is fabulous and she loves it. That will be fine, as although it is 4 hours from me it is only 1 hour from her dad. We are going to Liverpool nest week (hotel Friday night) and York in August (two nights B and B). When she goes to Derby in September she will go with her dad from his house. Cardiff is a day trip from here but not booked yet as they only release one Open Day at a time and they have all bee week days so far (can't afford to lose a day's pay really).

Legallady DD1 is doing French, German, English Lit and History at AS and doesn't want to drop anything in September as she loves all her courses. The course at Bath sounds great and a friend of ours did French and Russian there ( a few years ago !) and loved it . She also likes the languages and European studies at Southampton .

DD has just been appointed Deputy Head Girl! (Not eve slightly stealthy boast). She had to write a letter of application, there was a staff and student body vote on the applicants then a short list were interviewed by the Head, Deputy, Head of Sixth and a selection of staff. I am v proud but she is a bit gutted as she desperately wanted head girl. She will sort that though. I am having a quiet coffee to get over the trauma while she does her voluntary work.

"She will sort that though".......Agggghhhhh, what's she gonna do to her? LOL!

Well done her on getting DHG!

We start hitting the Universities tomorrow - four (out of seven to visit) in the next week. One in July and the final two in September. Managing to get away with just one extra paid overnight stop. Kerrr ching!

:) Kez! Nothing terminal! Her plan is to be so bloody good as DHG that they realise they made the wrong decision! And she will come to terms with her disappointment anyway soon. We are having mash for tea (not on its own...) and that will cheer her up no end!
We are off to Liverpool on Friday for a Saturday Open Day - this will be DD's 3rd visit to somewhere in as many weeks. Anyone else going to be there?

Well done to Cardibach's dd.
No, we're not going anywhere until the Autumn... combination of the places ds wants to visit, the fact he didn't get his finger out very quickly, and the clash with other things that were already on the calendar once he did decide to make some decisions.

Well, that said, he's going to the University in our home City this week, with school.

That's one off the list!

Falmouth was an unlikely choice due to courses not being perfect but as its on our doorstep we thought it would be silly not to go to the open day and see. My daughter was right, the courses aren't for her, but its a wonderful campus and halls and we were both very impressed.

And core 4 is finished!

Mundane school now, but not lessons - it seems to be lots of singing and dancing as well as a trip to Cerne.