Year 12-13 AS levels and beyond

[HSMMaCM]

Following on from the preparing for AS levels thread.

Hopefully everyone is finishing off AS exams.

DS is booked in for 3 open days atm, it's quite tricky as he still doesn't know what subject to study

I really hope he makes a decision soon, I'm secretly hoping an open day visit will inspire him...

Three more exams left, all Maths. Last one is 17th June and then off to Leeds open day the next day

Are you planning to go to the open days? We're doing a mix of ones I am going to and ones that DS is going to alone as some of them are on days that I have to be at work and can't take annual leave.

I'm going to the three he has booked, as I want to meet up with family/friends.

As we live in the back if beyond and he doesn't yet drive we have to transport him to most places. A few will be accessible by train I hope.

We are combining a couple of visits with other things too Horsemad - one of them visiting my DM's old college of Royal Holloway with her and DD which should be a nice thing to do together. She just told me that in her day there were only 300 students, all living in the main Founder's Building - which looks gorgeous. Now there are 6000 students so they've had to build some more accommodation I think. Hoping it will be a nice mother -daughter - grandaughter thing to do together, especially as I feel my DM and I could have done more things just the two/three of us over the years.
Will have to get DD to have a good think about booking some Open Days to Uni's she feels are real contenders as well though. She's not too sure about RH as she's slightly ruled out the London Uni's I think, partly on cost of living, partly on busyness of capital city.
It's hard to know which ball park we're in applications and offers wise until we get the AS results? For better or worse that may bring some clarity of direction?

My DD wants me to attend them all ,even though some of her friends are also attending at the same time ( also with Mums in tow).Yes,we are staying with my sister for one - Bristol ( though she doesn't know it yet!).Second thoughts Dh is doing one - Surrey and is combining it with a trip to his sister as well.

My Ds says he doesn't mind doing some on his own, he doesn't have much choice though as I work term time and have to rake my annual leave in the holidays :(

My DD is at Royal Holloway and is doing really well. The accommodation is really nice.

It's not London, you realise, but does qualify for the London maintenance loan.

Yes, looks like it's in a nice leafy corner on the edge of London Gin
Glad to hear your DD is happy there
I certainly think its well worth a look but was just saying we're partly going for the day out and the family connections which will be nice in themselves.
Hopefully Thomas Holloway would be glad to think of three generations of women going to enquire about higher education possibilities for the youngest inspired by DGM's time there

RH looks gorgeous, I hope you have a lovely visit Juggling

My DS1 has now finished his exams and called last night (at 11pm!!) to discuss us transporting him and his belongings home. His first year has gone soooo fast. I don't know where we're going to put all his stuff for the summer!

I'm encouraging dd1 and dd2 to stay put for the moment as I'm decorating and all the downstairs furniture is stacked in their bedrooms.

They can't come back yet.

DD doesn't need to revise for her classics AS on Monday, because she knows it all

Horse, DD might bump into you at Leeds - she's going with her mates.

My DD isn't interested in London unis as that's where we live! However she is concerned that elsewhere will not be London. As a Northern gal, I would LOVE her to go to a northern uni and love it

HSM

I'll look out for her bTM!

HSMMaCM - will she be running round last minute, cramming do you think?

I predict a weekend panic, followed by a foul mood Monday morning and only time will tell what Monday evening will be like .

I wonder if our parents were worried about us when we did our exams? I don't think mine were I just got a rocket when I didn't do well enough...

Mine weren't, they knew I wasn't going to get the grades they wanted and they told me I had to leave at sixteen.

Mine left us all to it - though I'm sure were slightly more interested when it came to DBro.
Encouraged me to apply - so I chose 5 Uni's fairly randomly from prospectuses in the "careers library" at school, DF read through my personal statement I think (such as it was in '83), DM took me shopping to buy an interview suit & gave me the money for train tickets to attend interviews at 3 Uni's (on my own though), then DF drove me up to Uni at the start of term. That was about the sum of it.
I'm sure that was probably above and beyond for our generation!

Juggling my parents were not the least interested in what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go, nor in whether I was doing revision. I had to get the bus from Belfast to Birmingham on my own to attend the interview and I had to pay for it myself.

HSM ditto DS and politics - he knows it all! Move over Corbyn and Cameron. He has turned his attention to a scientific investigation of the effects of cider on the 17 year old brain. I am livid!

Mine were Tiger parents before the term was invented.They rationed our socialising,drove us everywhere ,found me tutors ,and persuaded me into a course which I had no aptitude for at all.I was brilliant at English but they wanted me to do something scientific.The only careers our parents thought were important were Medicine,Dentistry,Law.Hence two went into Law and two the other way.
Consequently I am very much going to leave it up to my children as to what their choice of career will be.

I'll be leaving up it up my children too. Ds wants to study psychology, I think he's better suited to a different subject but I haven't told him that, he's the one who is going to study it after all.

Mine was completely hands-off. I wasn't the most hard-working student, but I always knew what I wanted to do and it was well within my grasp!

Re politics, apparently DD had a "rigorous political discussion" (her words ) with her friends auntie who said she should go into politics!

dd3 has got a weeks work experience at an aerospace company.

Dd and I are off to Exeter on Friday.

Anyone else going?!

Wow,well done Littlehums DD!

Well done Littlehums :)
Exeter was in the prospectus mountain but has been ruled out by DS.
Is anybody going to Bristol in a couple of weeks?