Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

its not that uncommon to have just 3 alevels. for a start any mature students etc who did alevels under the old system would be unusual if they had >3.

Toi be honest I didn't read the whole thread, but the point still stands, as a Fresher who has been in Cambridge 15 minutes, you have no right to say what A-Levels are or aren't good enough. I know many, many very clever people who did non-traditional A-Levels (One example, PPEist you did Physics, Media, Art and Geography, got a very respectable 2.1) and did very well in the Oxbridge enviroment. Of course traditional subjects are better suited to the Oxbridge systme, I don't think anyone could/or would deny that, but that doesn't mean people studying other subject are thickos and have no right to be here.

yeah, cos that makes loads of sense!

Would you let someone who didn't do A'Level maths come to Cambridge and do Engineering?

AH But that's my pointy.....he didnt do ALLL mickymouse subjects...he has respectable subjects in there as well....I was disagreeing with people who applied with JUST micky mouse a-levels

WHY CAN NOBODY READ WHAT I ****ING WRITE!

yes....if they were good at the maths....or did physics or something. Tbh I wouldnt think they would get in if they had Thearte studies, Media studies and Sociology unless they had been hiding their talent

Would you let someone who didn't do A'Level maths come to Cambridge and do Engineering?

Look guys...All I was saying was I dont think people who have only micky mouse a-levels should be applying, because mickymouse a levels arent relevant at all to any of the subjects. I defined micky mouse subjects as media studies for one...i bordered on sociology but said that was more respectable. Tbh I was stating the BLOODY OBVIOUS...I.e someone who has no relevants skills WONT GET IN!

No, they wouldn't be able to handel the maths content required. But if they did Maths, Physics, Media and Technology, I wouldn't rate them any high that someone who did Maths, Physics, History and Biology, just because the former happens to do 2 non-traditional subjects.

No, they wouldn't be able to handel the maths content required. But if they did Maths, Physics, Media and Technology, I wouldn't rate them any high that someone who did Maths, Physics, History and Biology, just because the former happens to do 2 non-traditional subjects.

then why are you being just as ignorant as those people in assuming i meant that people who did micky-mouse subjects should be allowed in. Jesus christ, in the first bloody post I made (the second of that thread) I stated "THey like you to have variety...but they will want you to have something more concrete and traditional as well"

ARGH it's so annoying how everyone is an ignorant fool!

Now I feel lucky that I didn't go on the college crawl with you.

Path is HIGHLY recommended. Loving it. Very complicated but v v interesting. CDB is OK, neuro crap at the mo but that's cos we're doing all the Nernst equation Hodgkin-Huxley rubbish...

1A Cells has some really good bits and some really really dull bits. If I remember right you're pretty much going over A level at the moment, so that can be a bit boring. Genetics is coooool (you have to wait til Lent for that but David Summers is a god).

Why?

The scars are still there if you want to see them...

Help Will to get his two gems back. Some people on the forum have been neg repping him for state the blatently obvious fact that if you only have micky mouse subjects at A'Level, you won't get into Cambridge.

I'm starting a Help the Willa Compaign.

Did you manage to lacerate any major vessels such that lots of blood squirted out really far due to the pressure?

It's like how if I said "Modern art is **** in comparison to traditional art...and modern artists have inferior skills"....in a PC world, I will be slaughtered for saying that...even though it's the bloody truth