I've often heard this stated as well. I know a couple friends who have applied to English unis and got conditional offers of 4 AHs with 2 of them being A band 1.
Which is frankly, a joke. I mean, not even English unis (to my knowledge?) would give out offers of A*A*AA?
Mind, what confuses me more are the different systems of studying a-levels in England. Edexcel? OCR? AQA? Whatttttt. Now
that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.