Current Year 13 Thread (2013/14) - Mark I

Yeah I thought so as well, ah well congratulations on your offer!!!


I suppose, ah thank you but don't be too hard on yourself

I suppose you're right but my area is quite poor


Cheers usy Yeah I'm looking forward to it

not really that fused by the rejection actually, feels weird

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Offer from Cambridge for Economics!!!

Offer from Cambridge for Economics!!!

Congratulations!!

Congrats boywonder you deserve it

Thanks guys!

Which college?

How did you fare?

Pooled by Jesus. Didn't qualify for auto-pool but we'll just have to wait and see I guess

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Offer from Cambridge for history- over the moon right now

Offer from Cambridge for Economics!!!

Sorry to hear about the news, Robbie. You have a fantastic application story since GCSE and should be very proud of a Warwick offer! It's one of the best in the UK after Cambridge, I'm sure you will enjoy it there. Someone posted this which may be relevant to you. It could well be that they just felt your education had left too many gaps in your knowledge to keep up with their incredibly tough course.

Why is history revision so painful? I remember NOTHING and my mock is on Thursday. You'd think I'd learn not to leave revision this late

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Congratulations to you both

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Off to Warwick for me

just proves really that even if you work hard, you most likely won't get into Cambridge because you weren't privately educated

I can understand you're upset about your rejection but that simply isn't true. You don't have to be privately educated to stand a good chance at Cambridge, you just have to be within the range that they're looking for. They contextualise your results with your school's to remove any disadvantages and the intake of state schoolers is around 63.7% so I don't think there's any bias. I hope you don't take it too hard upon yourself, and wish you all the best at Warwick

I can understand you're upset about your rejection but that simply isn't true. You don't have to be privately educated to stand a good chance at Cambridge, you just have to be within the range that they're looking for. They contextualise your results with your school's to remove any disadvantages and the intake of state schoolers is around 63.7% so I don't think there's any bias. I hope you don't take it too hard upon yourself, and wish you all the best at Warwick

Yeah I was understandably more pissed off earlier but that doesn't get rid of the fact that my school from the get go didn't give me much hope in reaching Cambridge at all, contextualisation can only account for so much and even then, if your school is literally so bad to the point where it doesn't actively prepare you for any sort of study at Cambridge, Cambridge themselves won't want you and that's the hard truth

It's probably not a matter of Private education vs State education I don't think anymore, but they can still say next to their statistic that they take x amount of students from state schools, still doesn't mean that students from really bad state schools will ever have a chance at Cambridge