Slightly off topic - but does anyone find this board really tiring?
I used to like helping people, to the best of my ability, with their applications/any queries. Now I just find all the stress about a B at AS Level, or only 6 A*s at GCSE really wearing. I suppose it partially is just this time of year.
I don't know. Maybe it's because I never built Oxford up to be anything that great. I suppose I didn't have any grade stress. I put it on my UCAS form, did some prep and got an interview. Then was told I didn't have an interview. Then told they'd made another mistake and I did have one. By which point I thought they were doing it out of pity, so stopped working for it and didn't stress about it (apart from what to wear!). Then I got an offer. I nearly turned it down. Then I got my grades. I nearly turned it down again. Then I got here and it wasn't exactly great. But then it got good and I love it...
Anyway I worry for some of the posters on here. They build it up to be such a big deal, when soon it'll all seem trivial. Regardless of whether they are accepted or not.
I just feel some of them need it drilled into their heads that their grades are not the most important part of their application. That they need to show their 'passion' and that they can succeed beyond the relatively uniform nature of A Levels (you're taught something. you learn it. you regurgitate it in exams).
Anyhow rant over.
Hope everyone's enjoying their vac!