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Would you feel like a failure if you didn't get into OxBridge?

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Reply 60
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HCD
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Lulu*et*Moi
Eh? It isn't, and thats my opinion. I think if you go there it is a huge achievement, and you deserve every right to be proud. Replying to the OP's thread, you are NOT a failure if you don't go there. Why do you have the 'urge to kill'? Lol.


No, I agree, it's just that the phrase "be all and end all" is such a massive cliché, and is used so much on TSR with reference to universities. It's the phrase "be all and end all" itself that makes me want to leave you in a shallow grave in a disused field. :smile:
HCD
No, I agree, it's just that the phrase "be all and end all" is such a massive cliché, and is used so much on TSR with reference to universities. It's the phrase "be all and end all" itself that makes me want to leave you in a shallow grave in a disused field. :smile:

Urm oh ok thanks. That's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me..
i do, coz until now ive got nothing but the ultimate results for it.. lol
Reply 63
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HCD
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Lulu*et*Moi
Urm oh ok thanks. That's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me..


You're quite welcome. :smile: After all, I am quite the romantic. :love: :top2:
Reply 64
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random18
in a sense, yeah I would. It's what I've wanted for longer back than I can even remember now...I'd certainly feel gutted. Cant brace myself to go to any other Uni than Oxford, apart from LSE. But time is a great healer i guess =p
HCD
You're quite welcome. :smile: After all, I am quite the romantic. :love: :top2:

Yeah i'm sure you're quite popular with the ladies.
Not.
Urm. I was thinking about this, this morning.
I'd care much less if my parents didn't know that I wanted to apply. My mum has properly gotten her knickers in a twist about it now.
I know I'd be very happy, maybe even happier at my other two top choices. I'd still feel really crap though. In a 'well if you couldn't succeed in this how on earth do you expect to fulfill your other ambitions' kind of way.
Reply 67
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RocketTown
i think being pooled made me a lot more hopeful.. hence a lot more upset when the rejection letter came. Though I didn't feel like a failure in any way, just massively upset. I guess i'm still kind of upset about it but when you really want something (and work for it) but don't get it you're bound to be upset.

But definitely not a failure. The majoriy of people who try for oxbridge fail to get in, thats just the way it is.
addie
Ive never even considered them. I can only imagine there full of stuck up snobs, who think there really brainy. I bet everything is so competitive there.


They know the difference, mostly, between they're, their and there.

addie
who are (obviously) really brainy
Reply 69
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HCD
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RocketTown
i think being pooled made me a lot more hopeful.. hence a lot more upset when the rejection letter came. Though I didn't feel like a failure in any way, just massively upset. I guess i'm still kind of upset about it but when you really want something (and work for it) but don't get it you're bound to be upset.


Ah, now there's a point. The thought of doing a lot of preparatory work, followed by a rejection, must sting. I suppose I might have felt a little disappointed if I'd done any work for it.
Reply 70
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Cities
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Personally I'd obviously be upset, because I particularly liked the course there, but when you integrate within any university, I guess you tend to love it. So I wouldn't take it too badly and I wouldn't feel like a failure. I'd try and convince myself that Cambridge lost out:smile:.

However, I do know a guy that literally took Cambridge as the aim of his life. He said he'd feel totally useless and worthless if he didn't get in. I didn't believe how honest he was about this until he got rejected. He was extremely extremely ill for the next 2 months, with many extreme sickness symptoms (I won't be graphic), didn't have the drive to even complete 6 of his January exams and just overall was totally shattered. It's really sad to see this, but it goes to show that you shouldn't make Oxbridge your everything... if you don't get in, by definition it would mean you feel like nothing. Fortunately he did mostly get over this in the end.
Reply 71
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HCD
Ah, now there's a point. The thought of doing a lot of preparatory work, followed by a rejection, must sting. I suppose I might have felt a little disappointed if I'd done any work for it.


yeah cambridge was the only university i interviewed for, so i spent a lot of my year preparing portfolios of artwork and such things especially for it. I ended up using all of this work for my coursework in the end so it wasn't too bad. But i was in a position where i had to dedicate a lot of my life towards my interview.

such is the interview process for architecture.
regarding thread title:
no, because it didn't offer my course
dorian_gray
regarding thread title:
no, because it didn't offer my course


Which was?
HCD
That's the fault of British culture, nothing more. Besides, surely it's better to be rejected by "the best" than by "lesser" universities? Like in sport, where it's considered better to lose to the best team, etc. :wink:


Yes, but you'd be more gutted to lose in the Champions League final than the Carling Cup final. :p:
Speedbird2008
Which was?

ucl.ac.uk/esps
No, I wouldn't have felt like a "failure". I didn't think I'd get into any of my choices, so I definitely didn't have any expectations of Oxford making me an offer. :s-smilie:

Then again, I hadn't "wanted to apply there since I was 12", or anything, so I didn't build the thing up as much as some other applicants did.
dorian_gray
ucl.ac.uk/esps


That's a great course apparently!

Why not PPE though?

:smile:
Reply 78
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Rosey2
I felt like a success because I managed to get an interview! lol :smile:
Then I got in and I was like AAAAAGHHHHHHH - WHAT.THE.HELL
It's meeting the offer that's the problem now, especially after that german oral today....oh god I'm going to go and revise now...
Speedbird2008
That's a great course apparently!

Why not PPE though?

:smile:


because I wanted to do French and spend a year at the Sciences-Po in Paris :smile:
However, I would never try and devalue the greatness of PPE at Oxford, of course :biggrin: but I do very much love my future course

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