Starting Y13 (y12 support thread contd)

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Well, I filled up the other one, so here's a nice new one to get us through dropping subjects, Uni open days, personal statement writing, and UCAS applications

Plenty of and and (nicely-intentioned) s available!

My DN has had two offers so far, Manchester and Bristol. AAB from Bristol for psychology, not sure of Manchester. She's also looking at Newcastle and Southampton.

Bristol is her fav so far.

We've never heard of the Philip Allan magazines hellsbells.

Sorry, that's rubbish. ds1 reads the Biological Sciences Review at school: he says it's v good. ( but expensive to buy an indiv subscription.)

Thanks Roisin!

Great news TeaAndALemonTart! My friend's DD did psychology at Manchester and rated it highly.

Well done to Littleham and Atia's DDs and LemonTart's DN.
DD has had her third offer now - ABB from Nottingham, which is the one she really wanted so she is over the moon. Still has the Oxford exams to do next week, but less stressful now as she likes Nottingham just as much.

That's great MissMillament! It will take all the pressure away for your daughter.

Excellent news, MissMillament - well done to your dd.

Great news MissM!

Well done MissM, great news!

That's a great offer - excellent news MissM!

Brilliant, Miss M's dd! Definitely nice to have some pressure off

mumslife we went to Cardiff on Saturday and dd loved it. The accommodation was good, lots of choice and it's all near the uni and the town/shops. Does your dd know that the inventor of daleks comes from Cardiff? There absolutely must be a Dr Who society there!

Just posted this on the Oxbridge thread as well. Dd has just had an offer from Exeter for English but she is really disappointed as they are asking for AAA Until last year the standard offer was AAA and on the website it says A*AA- AAB for this year. Very odd - no idea why they would give her such a high offer. Any idea, anyone?

MrsBartlet - Does she have really high predicted grades? Perhaps that is why they have done this.... Seems a bit mean! Is it her favourite?

MrsB that is shocking! Worth posting on the Student Room to see if anyone else has had such a ridiculously high offer perhaps? Your poor DD.

She is predicted 3 As (although I am not sure that she will get that by any means). Cambridge is her top choice and Durham her second. I don't think she will get a Cambridge offer but hopefully she will get a Durham offer. Their offers would be AAA. We looked at Exeter as a likely insurance place (along with York) as until recently they both had standard offers of AAA.

I reckon they are trying to force your dd into putting them as her Firm. Nasty!

Instead, I think she will be rejecting them!

MrsB, what none of us know, but would all dearly love to know, is how Exeter select who gets what within their offer range. IMO to the difference between an A* and a B is pretty big. Speculation only, but is there a contextual element coming into play that consider type of school, or perhaps more correctly school performance that an applicant comes from. Slightly more out of left field they've slipped slightly in the league tables for English (although still well inside top ten) and seems to be due to quite a bit lower average achieved entry standards than those above them, so perhaps a strategy to boost that?