Am I good enough for Oxbridge? Proving it here.

Whatever the reason for your results, in my opinion you are being too hard on yourself. They remain very good grades, which most people would have been delighted to receive. To hold down a full time job and simultaneously be capable of producing those results is astonishing.

It will get you down if you start dwelling on "what if" scenarios, so look forward.

To quote my favourite philosopher (ahem, Orange ), "the future is bright".

You may find that you fall in love with your course. You won't know until you start. By the sounds of it, you are more than capable of excelling in your first year and being eligible to switch to medicine which is a fantastic opportunity. If not, there will be the chance to specialise more in what interests you during your third year, surely?

Plus, there's more to uni than study and, as you say, Leicester will provide you with a great social life (i.e. Plenty of opportunity to bond with other freshers while becoming completely inebriated - I doubt freshers is quite so exciting at Cambridge).

Oh shucks, well... I'm off to Cambridge which makes me sound like a massive hypocrite.

However, things haven't exactly gone to plan for me, either. I ought to be starting this October, but due to medical reasons I've been forced to defer my offer until next year which I'm sort of heart broken about.

Thanks. I'm only planning to work in the summer. Hopefully focusing on uni ft will guarantee a decent class.


Indeed. My medication helps keep such thoughts at bay. I have burdened with them in the past. For example, I once had the opoorutnity to go into foster care where I had a grammar school place waiting for me (rather than a care home and random special needs-type place during year 10, 11) but I worried no family would want me so I got an advocate to represent me and argued that my year 10/11 shouldn't be interrupted and so stayed in my Manchester care home.

Now, it's possible that my fear of being bounced around from foster care house to house was paranoia and I'd have been sent to a loving family which wouldn't have required me to start being independent at 16. But I've long since stopped thinking about such things.




Thanks



Thanks, yes can specialise in various parts of biology.
Not sure about Medicine but glad for the opportunity.
May switch to Pharmaceutical Chem with Chem depending on how I feel. Although as @alow says, there's nothing stopping me from reading. Have to stay at Uni during hols like a sado so can do all the Chem in that time.


Oh yes, of course. Plan to join interesting socs. But I am a bit misanthropic so won't be doing much at Freshers .


Not at all. Well done on meeting your offer . That must be where I recognise you from, then.


Really sorry to hear that . Hope the year gives you enough time to recover and get better. Who knows, you may actually enjoy the time .

Wait... you got accepted by Cambridge???

Wait... you got accepted by Cambridge???

If you read any part of this page or the previous one you could've easily guessed whether he did or not.

He got an offer but unfortunately missed his offer but finished the academic year with an amazing set of results .

I got an offer but ultimately failed to meet it.
But I now study at the University of Leicester. I am quite happy with my course. I am getting good feedback from the lecturers and the relaxed pace of the first year is allowing me to get back to the studying after 2 years of full time work.
I'm learning Japanese through the Language department and am hoping to go to Nara Women's University for an Undergraduate research year in 2018-2019. I met with the study abroad coordinator and he hinted that my being proactive so early gives me a good shot at that exchange.

Thank you . It is truly nice to be studying full time!

I'm learning Japanese through the Language department and am hoping to go to Nara Women's University for an Undergraduate research year in 2018-2019. I met with the study abroad coordinator and he hinted that my being proactive so early gives me a good shot at that exchange.

I got an offer but ultimately failed to meet it.
But I now study at the University of Leicester. I am quite happy with my course. I am getting good feedback from the lecturers and the relaxed pace of the first year is allowing me to get back to the studying after 2 years of full time work.
I'm learning Japanese through the Language department and am hoping to go to Nara Women's University for an Undergraduate research year in 2018-2019. I met with the study abroad coordinator and he hinted that my being proactive so early gives me a good shot at that exchange.

Thank you . It is truly nice to be studying full time!

Hope it's going well bud, you'll love Japan; it's amazing

I wasn't good enough

I got ABB this year which was far far worse than the A*A*A I needed. The A was in Further.
Overall I now have AABBC

Fp2 (80), FP3 (67), M2 (95), S2 (60), D1 (56)

Next Steps
Reject Exeter
Reapplying

Will I resit? I don't think so but will see how I feel. At least if I choose to do so next year, I won't have Further Maths to worry about and will merely do a maximum of 2 modules. Much easier to prepare for!

Thank you for all of your support. Sorry for being a disappointment.