Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

I had never known any public school students until this thread to be honest

I'm guessing you're a devoted Whovian?

And she's Audrey Hepburn, look her up

Dunno... Overall people tend to get low UMS at AS with CIE
I only took AS maths last year. I'm learning FM at home, so it doesn't clash with normal maths.
Only 5 A levels :P and one of them's my native language.

Trust me, we're just the same as you guys (that sounds so weird aha). I came from state background and moved into private in year 9 so I know people from both sides and most of the people who were doing well at my state place are very similar to the guys at my school now. Idk if that's the same for all public schools but I never found my school to be like that.

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Thanks for the heads-up!
Ah, okay.
'Only'? Plus FM, so that's an extra AS right there! Still really impressive

I said 'only' but obviously I also took other ASs (Spanish, Chem, Physics, ICT and English + FM)
Make sure you lmk what UMS you get on results day I'll be thrilled to know you break the CIE barrier!

Yep Aaand she's gorgeous so

Oh my god.
I cannot believe I did not recognise her I do not deserve to live
(On zooming in, it's kinda obvious, but that's what I get for crushing on Jenna Coleman )

Yeah, that sounds verrryyy impressive And I'm crying with 4! Your grades are amazing
I definitely will... but shhh don't mention the R-word, I'm pretending 11th August will never come Hopefully... fingers crossed!
& best of luck with Imperial!

::sneaking back in...::

that's one of the myths/misunderstanding a lot of people have about and media mis-represents often.
The difference that may make in each school's academic performance is actually not whether it's private or state, but if it's selective or non-selective at the admission. If you look at school league tables, there're lots of state school with higher ranking than some of very good private schools. They attract a lot of really clever kids who they can pick at their entrance exams. And not all private schools are born equal. Some are very selective, others are not.
In the area where we live, there're three quite good private/public schools that's very selective. But for the best one among them, its competition is against a state/ex-grammar schools nearby, not other two private schools.

Nobody has noticed (replied) you yet

Yup that's true, my school is private school but completely non selective...Although international schools are never really selective lol
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Only 3 days of school left before study leave begins


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Not noticed or just ignored?

If your school is not selective with large mix of students with various academic ability and still you're doing very well, that's when Cambridge's thorough selection process comes in to pick you up!

You are supposed to be gone so people pretended to be you're invisible

Right I'm waiting come at me
My school's pass rate is still really good though lol
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Idk maybe they wish I was really gone....

You guys do appear to be nice everyone's so similar here that I can't really tell who's privately educated and who's state unless they tell

But I do hold the belief that private and independent schools should be abolished though

Idk maybe they wish I was really gone....

Like private schools there're better international schools and not so good ones. Obviously you go to a good one and still you're doing better than many of your peers. That's most important. What Cambridge doesn't like is a student who are not doing well in spite of going to a good school.

Out of curiosity, anyone on here taking the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge (Lower 6th competition) this year?

http://c3l6.com/compregs/about

Haha sorry, should have replied to you earlier then . Yes totally agree with you there, which is why your academic performance in a selective independent school will be heavily scrutinised.