Finishing Year 13 / Exam Results support thread (number 6!)

[Littleham]

Thread continued for results day! Fingers crossed everyone.

Desperate is what I'm thinking seimum. I'm really bothered that DS will choose that because he can't get in to do Comp Sci and not because he really fancies doing Chemistry.

Horsemad I am sure there are plenty of unis that will offer Comp Sci with your DS's grades - they may not be Russell Group, but still respectable.

Better to go there and enjoy the course and do well, rather than go for a course you're not interested in at a RG uni, and then fail because you can't/won't keep up with the work

I know, but I think DH will influence him to stick with RG Uni

do agree - do the course they want. Many very, very good unis that are not RG. We were very happy with our insurance choice if needed.

Apparently, a lot of places on clearing - so go back to league tables and rethink uni choices. Friend of ours went all way to Glasgow through clearing last year - not happy to start with - year on very happy.

Surrey, Bath, Loughborough - none of them are RG - great high ranking unis

He now seems really apathetic about applying for Comp Sci at all - he's a lazy little toad really and I think he's just happy to do nothing now, knowing he has an offer for Chem.
Aarrgghh, can feel my blood pressure rising.

Horsemad If he's not got the motivation to work on his own, then going to an RG uni would be a bad move - he will fail & be in a worse position than now.(Speaking from experience as DD1 got a 3rd in her degree, which was almost worse than not having one at all)

Better take a year off until he has generated the drive to go from within himself

DD is going to Royal Holloway University of London which we are very happy about.

I agree with you seimum, I've just said the same to him.
It's his choice now, totally upto him what he does.

Has your DS heard anything yet seimum?

Great news GinandJag. Royal Holloway is lovely, especially the Founders Building. Well done to others who have posted as well.

Sorry to hear about Durham Waiting but nice to see someone else coming to York.

cathy. I live 20 minutes from Bristol so if you need me to do anything let me know. So sorry your dd is upset.

Horsemad No, still waiting.
He'll ring them up again tomorrow morning - otherwise, he's trying to work out if he can accept his insurance if his firm is still not confirmed/rejected, so as not to stay in limbo for ages.

DS's offer from Soton on Track has now changed to one for Chemistry, which he has declined, so it looks like he's off to his insurance (Essex).
Oh well, at least now we know & can make plans.

Horsemad, I am involved in the recruitment of graduates for a large technology company, and we would prefer to have more applicants with Computer Science than we get currently. We don't limit ourselves to Russell Group universities either - so if your DS wants to do Computer Science, then he shouldn't get hung up about attending an RG university. As others have said there are some great non-Russell group universities.

Does he know what he wants to do post-university?

Everyone seems to have done so well! DD and I are exhausted after an emotional day, she has had final rejection from Sheffield and feels very low. I feel irrationally furious with them because she is the most wonderful girl alive and they have rejected her. She feels she will never find soul mates in a small place like Huddersfield. This really is a ridiculous system - American kids know where they are going months in advance and it doesn't all hang on 1 day a month before term starts. Sorry, ranting. Nowhere else to do it.

Cooroo DD witnessed lots of teenagers being led out of the school hall in floods of tears. Some of them don't have place tonight.

I'm not sure MN is entirely representative and there are lots of people that struggle in clearing. One of dd's best friends was distraught today.

Cooroo my DD has several friends who have missed their firm and are now going for their insurance university or clearing so not unusual at all. It is a terribly hard day for students and it does take time to let feelings settle. Hugs to you both.

We had two non-RG uni's on the back up list for today in case dd didn't meet her grades. She said she would rather be studying and taking steps towards her career than having a gap year. RG really is not the be all, doing the subject you are interested in is more important. After all, they can always go on to do a Masters at an RG uni if it's that important.

She's up and down like a roller coaster and I'm affected by her moods! We just had a good chat and made each other laugh. I'm going to miss her!

Yeah, mine's out tonight with most of her year group I think!!

I'm sitting here doing an illegible list excel spreadsheet of what we need to get, as she goes in FOUR weeks

Just tried to listen to Slipping through my Fingers, didn't get through the first line before I was bawling like a baby.