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AAA at A level + 2 AEA distinctions = No interview. I feel so stupid…

...As in April I turned down places at LSE and Princeton, at the urging of my teachers as they thought I would be a shoe in to Oxford. I realise that their expectations were inflated and that almost no one is a shoe-in, but what has me so flummoxed is the rejection pre-interview. I was preparing myself for the strong possibility of a post interview rejection but this has left me feeling as if I've been taken out at the knees. I feel quite disheartened and am pissed off for no particular reason.

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Reply 1
:frown: :hugs:

request feedback if it wasn't forthcoming in the letter?
was there written work/aptitude test involved..?
& you're obviously not stupid - please don't let anyone or any institution make you feel like that..
wow thats a joke what subject was it for? get your old head of year to pull some strings call the uni up,
Reply 3
I'm very sorry to hear. I agree with Elles, ask for some feedback. What was your subject?

:frown:
Reply 4
LSE+Princeton???

Why the hell did you turn them down? (n also this proves you are not stupid!)

and have you applied to them again this year? lse to say the least have a thing for students they previously accepted
Reply 5
Yeh you are mad to turn down LSE and Princeton. Some people would kill to go to there (myself included). Did u apply to any others this year?
Reply 6
GCSEs?
Reply 7
vellerindombur
...As in April I turned down places at LSE and Princeton, at the urging of my teachers as they thought I would be a shoe in to Oxford. I realise that their expectations were inflated and that almost no one is a shoe-in, but what has me so flummoxed is the rejection pre-interview. I was preparing myself for the strong possibility of a post interview rejection but this has left me feeling as if I've been taken out at the knees. I feel quite disheartened and am pissed off for no particular reason.



What course? Economics?
Reply 8
I did. It was apparently the written work that did me in. Which would ordinarily have been fair enough, but I actually thought that was the strongest part of my application. I won three prizes between the two essays one of which was adjudicated by Helen Vendler at Harvard. I also gave about four of my essays to a Oxford tutor who is a fellow at one of the colleges and he picked those two. Yesterday he told me that they were better than anything he has received from his crop of applicants. This is of course quite comforting but doesn’t change the fact that I don’t have an interview.
Reply 9
ba_ba1
Yeh you are mad to turn down LSE and Princeton. Some people would kill to go to there (myself included). Did u apply to any others this year?


think he is applying to english... which is weird since lse doesn't do english...

(i've been trick too many times in the last few days... i don't know if i can trust again :rolleyes: )
English. I got into LSE for Government, Manifest.
Reply 11
vellerindombur
I did. It was apparently the written work that did me in. Which would ordinarily have been fair enough, but I actually thought that was the strongest part of my application. I won three prizes between the two essays one of which was adjudicated by Helen Vendler at Harvard. I also gave about four of my essays to a Oxford tutor who is a fellow at one of the colleges and he picked those two. Yesterday he told me that they were better than anything he has received from his crop of applicants. This is of course quite comforting but doesn’t change the fact that I don’t have an interview.


if you got all that relations with that ox tute why don't you ask him "if i was better than all of them then why the hell didn't you give me an interview?"
Last year I applied for Politics related things. I would be happy to scan and email you my acceptance letters, Taum.
Reply 13
I think he applied to English at Balliol. And that is a very popular college for English this year- aren't they putting applicants into other colleges?
Reply 14
Traum
(i've been trick too many times in the last few days... i don't know if i can trust again :rolleyes: )


sorry to hear about that. Like ur new avatar btw :wink:
Reply 15
what were your essays on?

Maybe they weren't convinced about an application for English if they knew about your previous politics applications.

WHo else have you applied for this year?
I was going to apply to Balliol or Keble but I couldn't decide between them so I picked a collge at random and it was Exeter. This seemed to be good luck as my school sends about 2/3 people to Exeter most years and 5 of the last six heads of school are there.
vellerindombur
I was preparing myself for the strong possibility of a post interview rejection but this has left me feeling as if I've been taken out at the knees. I feel quite disheartened and am pissed off for no particular reason.


Try listening to Simon and Garfunkle's Puff the Magic Dragon.

Seriously, it makes everything go away.
Reply 18
vellerindombur
English. I got into LSE for Government, Manifest.


ah, that clears things up... (p.s. did you apply to lse again?)

n you sound like a really strong candidate...uni is a lottery

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ba_ba1
sorry to hear about that. Like ur new avatar btw :wink:


lol i was talking about how trolls plaguin the oxbrigde forums... :p:

thanx u r the first person to notice it... :frown:
I don't actually have that song. Taum I thought about LSE again but I don't see how I can get around the fact that my personal statement talks rapturously about my love of English. My essays were on 'Paradise Lost' and William Golding's 'Rites of Passage'.