UCAS is rubbish!

Because exam results aren't everything. Decent universities want people who are not only intelligent, but willing to learn, not people who do well in exams and think they know it all already (and you seem to fall more into the second category than the first).

And in the old days, much fewer people sat A-levels, and there were fewer universities. That's why people getting 3A's were pretty much going to be Oxbridge-bound.

More joy of the scottish systems: small class sizes at Advanced Higher.
For me (all including myself) 4 in Maths, 6 in Geography and 2 in Computing.

Damn rite. All those VOID, NULL A levels (they know who they are!) media studies, sociology, physcology and all that crap should be exterminated. no wonder everyone gets A's!!

For me (including myself) it was 2 in maths, 3 in chemistry, and just me in physics! We were spoilt for maths, and got 8 hours a week between two teachers (the best maths teacher in the school, and the rector), but didn't get taught atall in the other two!

Can I just ask....is there ANYONE applying to Cambridge who didn't get all A*s at GCSE???!

Loads! Most, in fact.

Apparently there's someone in my year at my college who got mostly Cs at GCSE. Don't worry about it

Isn't your school smaller than mine thought?

wow. What did he get at AS and A-level?

Can I just ask....is there ANYONE applying to Cambridge who didn't get all A*s at GCSE???!

Yeh, about 350 pupils or something. Those numbers probably aren't bad considering the size of the school.

Is that in the whole school! There are 1500 pupils in my school. In sixth year I had 15 in maths, 18 in RE and only 2 in music. But overall there were 150 pupils in sixth year. Its a big school

My sixth form has roughly 30 pupils for each of my classes apart from maths where we have about 15 and biology where we have about 40 Luckily however we were able to divide the class into two groups after 6 months. But i do expect about 30 pupils on average for all my classes for yr 13. Its a bit of a bugger but oh well

I'm sorry but uni's also want people who have personality's ( Is that how you spell it?) I know a boy who is seriously smart, all he gets is A's, but he doesn't talk to anyone, doesn't even go out. University's want well rounded people not just people who are extremely smart.

I did music, should I not be going to university because of this.

There were 34 in my 6th year, and that was unusually high! This years 6th year is the opposite extreme and is only 17, with all but 4 female. If it's anything like the girls in our year, those poor guys are going to have a pretty stressful 12 months!

Pedant

My school's got about 1150 pupils. My year's got about 140-ish I think in S6 but that is a slightly random estimate

I think I heard somewhere about Cambridge asking for your class sizes. Is this true and will I be at a disadvantage because AHs have such small classes?

I haven't heard it as a big thing like UMS marks. I just seem to remember hearing it mentioned as something on a form they send you.
Hopefully they won't mind as I will dazzle them at interview and they'll give me an unconditional offer.
*cough* fat chance *cough*