Do you?

oldthrashbarg

It is a small world. Think of you docking your yachts in my islands...

Congratulations, they're very nice islands - a bit small, but they'll do.

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priya

wonder if any people in my college will be Etonites....actually no, they wouldn't apply to Sidney they'd be pooled Etonites :tongue:

Oi!

...yeah...

We have one bloke from Rugby I think. Good enough?

PS Boats? Who needs a boat when you can have a private jet?

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MadNatSci

Oi!

...yeah...

We have one bloke from Rugby I think. Good enough?

PS Boats? Who needs a boat when you can have a private jet?

I hope you don't mean the kind of jet you find in one of my fleet of spa pools.

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Ticki

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priya

wonder if any people in my college will be Etonites....actually no, they wouldn't apply to Sidney they'd be pooled Etonites :tongue:

Not true, we had some a couple of years ago. I also know one going to Harris Manchester, not exactly the brightest star of 'the other place' but he seemed to think it was better than Hatfield College, Durham...

Nicky - who's the one from Rugby?

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priya

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MadNatSci

Oi!

...yeah...

We have one bloke from Rugby I think. Good enough?

PS Boats? Who needs a boat when you can have a private jet?

lol no i'm not dissing sidney in any way, in fact, quite the opposite. etonites would go for larger more well known colleges...if sidney's target area is the north then i'm sure many of the 'stereotypical' etonites would be put off by this...

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priya

lol no i'm not dissing sidney in any way, in fact, quite the opposite. etonites would go for larger more well known colleges...if sidney's target area is the north then i'm sure many of the 'stereotypical' etonites would be put off by this...

Is that true that Sidney's target area is the north? I think it's the perceptions of applicants when they choose colleges that create these large and visible trends.

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priya

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sbailey

Is that true that Sidney's target area is the north? I think it's the perceptions of applicants when they choose colleges that create these large and visible trends.

according to vicki (Ticki) it is...she's already at the college and i assumed she knew this through a reliabe source

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Yes, sort of. Although I'm not directly involved yet, the way I understand it the Target scheme allocates regions to colleges where they should focus on making people more aware of what Cambridge has to offer. Sidney's allocated region is the North West.

I'm sure Vicki will correct me if this is wrong! :biggrin:

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MadNatSci

Yes, sort of. Although I'm not directly involved yet, the way I understand it the Target scheme allocates regions to colleges where they should focus on making people more aware of what Cambridge has to offer. Sidney's allocated region is the North West.

I'm sure Vicki will correct me if this is wrong! :biggrin:

That's interesting. You learn something new every day!

Is there any way of finding out which area my college targets? (St Johns) If someone replies with a sarcy comment, well I'll....

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sbailey

That's interesting. You learn something new every day!

Is there any way of finding out which area my college targets? (St Johns) If someone replies with a sarcy comment, well I'll....

How about 'no comment'? :wink:

There's probably a website somewhere... I'll see Vicki today, I'll ask her then.

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Helenia

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MadNatSci

Yes, sort of. Although I'm not directly involved yet, the way I understand it the Target scheme allocates regions to colleges where they should focus on making people more aware of what Cambridge has to offer. Sidney's allocated region is the North West.

I'm sure Vicki will correct me if this is wrong! :biggrin:

We've got Tower Hamlets I think. I would love to do access work but think I'm really not the sort who would convince them that Cambridge is open to everyone :redface:

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BazTheMoney

Helenia

We've got Tower Hamlets I think. I would love to do access work but think I'm really not the sort who would convince them that Cambridge is open to everyone :redface:

Very, very poor excuse. :rolleyes:

I did access work for Oxford, I'm hardly a state schooler, innit? :tongue:

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Helenia

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BazTheMoney

Very, very poor excuse. :rolleyes:

I did access work for Oxford, I'm hardly a state schooler, innit? :tongue:

You really think they'd want me? I'd just be paranoid of appearing blatantly obviously as what I am - a white, middle-class, semi-rural private school girl. Hardly the type they're working to attract. What sort of stuff did you do, and do you really think it worked?

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Helenia

You really think they'd want me? I'd just be paranoid of appearing blatantly obviously as what I am - a white, middle-class, semi-rural private school girl. Hardly the type they're working to attract. What sort of stuff did you do, and do you really think it worked?

There's a guy in my college who is very much anti-access. He and a friend at Kings want to found a state school student outreach society called Access Denied. It's funny, but only because it hopefully could never come to fruition!

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