Drop the "common" accent.

There is a significant difference between having a regional accent, which most of us have, and which is absolutely nothing to worry about and using the sort of vocabulary that the OP has mentioned. Fortunately, it is relatively easy to drop that kind of thing.

thanks for calling us all chavs for having an accent!

I sound like a ****ing farmer! I usually accidentally pick up the way that people around me speak after about a week though (you should hear me when I'm in London for a while!) so I'm going to get absolutely ripped when I return home for Christmas (if I get the grades - touch wood)

If you read the original post, I don't think Peter is making an issue of having an accent, rather the use of slang. Nobody should have to change their accent to get into university, but I think it is better to come across as relatively well-spoken at interview. That doesn't mean having a 'BBC accent' (whatever that is supposed to be), simply using correct English i.e not words like 'summit' or 'innit'.

Peter, although I can't identify directly with your concerns, I attended a sixth form where students had a wide range of accents and used more slang than I was used to, and did become more conscious of it around interview. If it's something that genuinely bothers you, then maybe try to gradually condition yourself out of using slang words, but I wouldn't worry about it. If you apply and get an interview, the academic atmosphere really kicks in and - as long as you're coherent - I doubt any tutor is going to notice.

Why the hell would you do that? As long as people can understand you and you don't sound like an idiot (which presumably you don't as you they liked you enough at interview to give you a place) then no-one should care.

I'm at a 'chav' school too, and even though I get called 'posh' and am teased for it I've never changed my accent which isn't even posh, just your standard South of the country English. People who care about that kind of thing aren't worth your time anyway.

He hasnt got his GCSE results yet...

I have a Mancunian accent and am proud of it, no-one at uni's going to change that.

i was sort of joking..though i knew someone wud have summit to say bout it!

Well, if you were joking then I'm sorry for jumping down your throat, so to speak, but I'm never very good at judging internet 'humour'.

Mancunian accents scurr the life out of me.