Official Cambridge Applicants 2015 Entry

Original post by L'Evil Fish

I'm number 3 :tongue:

Science linguist here :colone:

Haha, exception here is you guys are way more talented than I, (mocks have left me unbelievably demoralized.) It would be so cool if we all ended up at the same uni though, we could talk to each other in french, haha, oh and as a polyglot I am surprised arabic is not on your list of languages you know-unless I am mistaken.

Checked your profile,I believe I was mistaken :colondollar:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

I'm number 3 :tongue:

Science linguist here :colone:

Original post by Mathsfanatic123

Haha, exception here is you guys are way more talented than I, (mocks have left me unbelievably demoralized.) It would be so cool if we all ended up at the same uni though, we could talk to each other in french, haha, oh and as a polyglot I am surprised arabic is not on your list of languages you know-unless I am mistaken.

Checked your profile,I believe I was mistaken :colondollar:

You guys, and one at my school, are the only ones I know! That would be insane! Are we all going for maths? I'm doing AQA for all of my subjects- easy to remember!

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Original post by k_slatch

You guys, and one at my school, are the only ones I know! That would be insane! Are we all going for maths? I'm doing AQA for all of my subjects- easy to remember!

No way, same here I do AQA for all, and I think 'fish ' guy haha, wants to study natural science!

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The Techie

I just got my offer for Computer Science w/ Maths ( :biggrin:

), so if anybody wants to ask anything, go ahead :smile:

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Original post by Mathsfanatic123

No way, same here I do AQA for all, and I think 'fish ' guy haha, wants to study natural science!

That's awesome! Let's be buddies :tongue:

Original post by L'Evil Fish

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IS THIS TRUE?

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username876889

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Course: MML (probably French and Spanish)
College: Literally no clue
IGCSES: 10 A* 3 sciences, Maths, 2 Englishes, French, Spanish and Latin, Geography
AS Levels: French, Spanish, Economics and Maths. School don't allow any more!!!!!!
Extra stuff : Doing a work experience in Spain this half term :smile:

extra reading (just finished my first French book; L'Etranger :smile:

) Help out in language clinics and am about to start a French Literature club after school. DofE Silver and going to enter the Canning House essay, although it sounds impossible. Thinking of doing an EPQ in the summer but not sure I could motivate myself to do a 5000 word essay... Do you think they'll reject me because of a lack of English/History? And does anyone know what the flags in the flag system are?

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Original post by k_slatch

That's awesome! Let's be buddies :tongue:

Unbelievably excited now, no one I know(at school) does the same a levels, so I always revise differenct things with different people, it would great to compare notes/and where we are up to in revision etc. Btw I don't think you know what you have gotten yourself into :colone:

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L'Evil Fish

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Original post by Mathsfanatic123

Haha, exception here is you guys are way more talented than I, (mocks have left me unbelievably demoralized.) It would be so cool if we all ended up at the same uni though, we could talk to each other in french, haha, oh and as a polyglot I am surprised arabic is not on your list of languages you know-unless I am mistaken.

Checked your profile,I believe I was mistaken :colondollar:

Yeah Arabic I want to learn. I can only read it :frown:

Original post by k_slatch

You guys, and one at my school, are the only ones I know! That would be insane! Are we all going for maths? I'm doing AQA for all of my subjects- easy to remember!

Original post by k_slatch

That's awesome! Let's be buddies :tongue:

IS THIS TRUE?

I'm NatSci but will be choosing as much maths as I can :smile:

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Original post by Mathsfanatic123

Unbelievably excited now, no one I know(at school) does the same a levels, so I always revise differenct things with different people, it would great to compare notes/and where we are up to in revision etc. Btw I don't think you know what you have gotten yourself into :colone:

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Hahaha I'm excited too!

Original post by L'Evil Fish

I'm NatSci but will be choosing as much maths as I can :smile:

Disappointed.. thought we'd be three Mathmos together! (I was actually considering NatSci but I'm 95% sure I'm going Maths)

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Yeah Arabic I want to learn. I can only read it :frown:

I can speak it fluently, did it at gcse and as, but if I am honest, I speak slang Arabic(Libyan dialect) at home haha. I think reading is probably the hardest, speaking is easy to pick up, I would recommend a lot of Arabic dubbed Turkish soaps, because of the entertainment as well as the clearly enunciated Arabic spoken!

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frances007

Offer holder for MML (French and German) any questions fire away :biggrin:

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Original post by Alludeen1

Course: MML (probably French and Spanish)
College: Literally no clue
IGCSES: 10 A* 3 sciences, Maths, 2 Englishes, French, Spanish and Latin, Geography
AS Levels: French, Spanish, Economics and Maths. School don't allow any more!!!!!!
Extra stuff : Doing a work experience in Spain this half term :smile:

extra reading (just finished my first French book; L'Etranger :smile:

) Help out in language clinics and am about to start a French Literature club after school. DofE Silver and going to enter the Canning House essay, although it sounds impossible. Thinking of doing an EPQ in the summer but not sure I could motivate myself to do a 5000 word essay... Do you think they'll reject me because of a lack of English/History? And does anyone know what the flags in the flag system are?

I'm assuming that this is the sort of stuff you're talking about... being in care for 3+ months, school below national average, living in a low progression to uni area etc etc? link here: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/why_oxford/codes_and_procedures/contextual_data.htm l EDIT: you have 3 languages at GCSE and 2 at A-level, they won't reject you because you lack English/history.

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CaddyCompson

Original post by paradoxicalme

Turns out I won't be seeing you at the english masterclass :frown:

My dad's going to the rugby and they won't let me use any other method of transport...I hope you enjoy it though! :smile:

Aww

never mind. Hopefully we'll see each other at Cambridge at some point. It's so scary that we are applying in October!

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L'Evil Fish

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Original post by k_slatch

Hahaha I'm excited too!

Disappointed.. thought we'd be three Mathmos together! (I was actually considering NatSci but I'm 95% sure I'm going Maths)

I have done maths A2 and my UMS wasn't good at all :redface:

for a maths application

Original post by Mathsfanatic123

I can speak it fluently, did it at gcse and as, but if I am honest, I speak slang Arabic(Libyan dialect) at home haha. I think reading is probably the hardest, speaking is easy to pick up, I would recommend a lot of Arabic dubbed Turkish soaps, because of the entertainment as well as the clearly enunciated Arabic spoken!

Lucky! I want to learn modern standard Arabic :smile:

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username876889

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Original post by k_slatch

I'm assuming that this is the sort of stuff you're talking about... being in care for 3+ months, school below national average, living in a low progression to uni area etc etc? link here: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/why_oxford/codes_and_procedures/contextual_data.htm l EDIT: you have 3 languages at GCSE and 2 at A-level, they won't reject you because you lack English/history.

Thanks for the link, I was just wondering if I would qualify for any of them because I go to a private school and I don't want them to assume I've had everything on my plate (which I haven't). And about the English literature thing, I was wondering if the degree is like a literature degree but in French/Spanish because I like reading, just not analysing every word and quote to the nth degree and am far much more interested in the cultural/historical side/linguistic side. Thanks again

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

I have done maths A2 and my UMS wasn't good at all :redface:

for a maths application

Awww man, shame :frown:

you going physical nat sci?

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L'Evil Fish

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Original post by k_slatch

Awww man, shame :frown:

you going physical nat sci?

Yep! Resitting C3, hopefully get some back up on my reference.

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