Alright so my story is a bit strange but bare with me.
In my A2 year I had a lot of troubles with my college, the head didnt allow me to apply for the course I wanted at Universities I chose. She would make me meet with her every week to essentially tell me my choices were beyond my reach. So I pretty much stopped going to college mid way through my A2 year.
I applied and forced her to accept my application through the college. She agreed on the condition that I enter as an external student so therefore my grades/my University acceptance rate wouldn't effect the sixth form's statistics. I agreed and stop attending.
I applied and managed to get a place at the University I wanted to attend. My offer as standard for this course/Uni was AAA. Which seemed difficult at first but I was fairly determined.
I taught myself my A2 year and just went to sixth form for my exams. My exams went okay apart from a few and I was convinced that I would get AAB.
My college has this rule where if you get AAA or higher they phone you the day before results day so you can write a post on their website about the college. So the day before results day I waited at the phone for hours and received no calls.
I was absolutely heart broken as I knew my firm would have rejected me, they're not a lenient university nor did I pick an insurance (stupid decision but had my heart set on one place and one place only).
Anyway I ended up going into college early the next day with a friend and one of my teachers (who I forgot to mention actually defended me and motivated me to apply for the course/uni I wanted, she actually believed I could achieve AAA) gave me the letter with my results in it as she was smiling. I assume she checked by results before me as teachers get them before students.
I opened them and was shocked. A*AA.
So obviously my firm accepted me. Probably the happiest day of my life.
A* being in the subject I study at University, apparently I was one of the only ones to achieve an A* at my sixth form in that subject (quite a small sixth form).
Cliche as it sounds, as Shia Labeouf would say: Dont let your dreams be dreams. I'm now going into my 3rd year of university with a 1st average, A*AA in my alevels and my future looks pretty bright.
Good luck alevel students, PS: University doesn't get any easier