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Reply 2120
fg08
Yeah know I understandyou :smile:
I wouldnt choose a university I dont really wannago to just ebcause they made me an easier offer :smile: Have you already visited all those universities?

I can't visit them. Can't leave school (or I risk being arrested!) and I can't really afford it either.
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Ahhhhh, Bristol rejected me...:|

*looks pleadingly at St Andrews admission staff*
Reply 2122
debrajane
Ahhhhh, Bristol rejected me...:|

Ow, that's harsh. Good luck with St As.:unsure:
Reply 2123
debrajane
Ahhhhh, Bristol rejected me...:|

*looks pleadingly at St Andrews admission staff*

Im sorry to hear that! I hope St Andrews will give you a great offer! :smile:

Zenobia
I can't visit them. Can't leave school (or I risk being arrested!) and I can't really afford it either.

Oh that sounds pretty harsh :s-smilie: Why should they arrest you? So you have to make your decision without visitung any university :confused:
Oogamy
Ow, that's harsh. Good luck with St As.:unsure:

Thanks :smile:

Argh, just annoying that Bristol kept me waiting 6 months...for a rejection...gits. :banghead:
debrajane
Ahhhhh, Bristol rejected me...:|

*looks pleadingly at St Andrews admission staff*


That's rubbish...I hope it's good news from St Andrews.
Reply 2126
debrajane
Thanks :smile:

Argh, just annoying that Bristol kept me waiting 6 months...for a rejection...gits. :banghead:


Oh unlucky on Bristol debz! Ha, are u gutted or not to bothered? :smile:
Reply 2127
fg08
Oh that sounds pretty harsh :s-smilie: Why should they arrest you? So you have to make your decision without visitung any university :confused:


Dutch law. If you skip school you can get the police after you. Criminal record and everything. And I already had a warning because I skipped history in September (my best subject) to be able to see my Classics tutor (long story short: no I could not see someone else and no I could not see her at different hours). Going to my interview at Oxford was cutting it reaaaaally close. So if I were to go off to somewhere again I have a serious problem.

I usually call in sick now (which is allowed up till some point) instead of skipping school... but because they know me, they'd come look for me if I were gone for a couple of days in a row (for real, yeah). And since I have offers from Bristol, St Andrews and Durham I can't exactly visit them all in one weekend (way too far apart). Anyway I have my final exams coming up too so it's not too smart to go 'on holiday' to the UK anyway.
I told my school I'm sick today (even though I will be there for a presentation tonight lol) so I can catch up on my homework. It's a really ****** up system.

So yeah anyway I need to make a decision without actually having been there.
Oxy
Oh unlucky on Bristol debz! Ha, are u gutted or not to bothered? :smile:


Well, i'm not bothered by the prospect of not being able to go to Bristol...Slightly relieved in a weird way...I don't think I would like the place. It's more the fact that the only place I have left now is St Andrews. Its a bit like hanging onto the edge of a cliff.

Although, Extra or gap year I suppose, so its not exactley a hopeless situation.
debrajane
Its a bit like hanging onto the edge of a cliff.

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Hah, i'm being a bit dramatic today it would seem. :rolleyes:
Reply 2130
debrajane
Ahhhhh, Bristol rejected me...:|

*looks pleadingly at St Andrews admission staff*


Did you go to one of the UCAS days for bristol.
Reply 2131
debrajane
Well, i'm not bothered by the prospect of not being able to go to Bristol...Slightly relieved in a weird way...I don't think I would like the place. It's more the fact that the only place I have left now is St Andrews. Its a bit like hanging onto the edge of a cliff.

Although, Extra or gap year I suppose, so its not exactley a hopeless situation.


Good luck :smile: Hope St. A's let you in! A third year isn't that bad, I'm currently doing my 3rd year now lol only because in the first i did some crappy BTEC and Electronics then i switched to AS-levels :cool:
Biochem
Did you go to one of the UCAS days for bristol.


I didn't, :frown:

I didn't get told about one or anything.

Volta82
Don't worry, i had exactly the same last year. Rejections came trickling in one by one, waiting for St Andrews for ages, and then they rejected me. I'm sure you won't though as you probably have infinitely better predictions etc. I have the same this year to an extent, rejected everywhere except Newcastle which is alright but i'd much prefer St Andrews. I bet they reject me on my birthday. Last year the rejection came 3 days before my 18th, put a bit of a downer on things. Gap years aren't so bad, just get something sorted asap if you do end up having one, but in the mean time try and keep positive! I know how depressing it can be to seemingly be unwanted from placs. I blame the system!


Ahhh, it would be so much better if everyone just chose one university they wanted to go to...and got immediately accepted. :smile: With applying to 5, it seems a bit stupid holding 5 places, and potentially stopping 4 other people getting an offer they really want (that probably makes no sense, but it does in my head) I realise they give out more offers than places, but still.

Oxy

Good luck :smile: Hope St. A's let you in! A third year isn't that bad, I'm currently doing my 3rd year now lol only because in the first i did some crappy BTEC and Electronics then i switched to AS-levels



Thankyou :smile: I'm torn about the idea of a gap year, in some ways I think it will be good for me, in others I just want to get going to uni.
Just back from open day at St Andrew's.

It's stunning.
Reply 2134
debrajane


Thankyou :smile: I'm torn about the idea of a gap year, in some ways I think it will be good for me, in others I just want to get going to uni.


I don't like the idea, but thts only because i have no idea how i would survive on my own without my mum giving me money :woo: But on a serious note not only that but just the thought scares me, to many things to worry about!
Ezraa
Because i was told my psychology would be counted as a science but now my lack of an actual science seems to be against me and the source of all my rejections :frown:

did chemistry last year -- failed just to piss of my teacher, hated her soo much.


Ah, I see. Do they require you to do a Science? I forget. And even if you don't, shouldn't Psychology count more if you're applying for a Psychology course?!
They might take into account the Chemistry. I dropped Chemistry becuase I thought I'd failed, but it turned out I did better in it than Biology which I kept up :frown: I hate my Biology teacher as well, but loved the Chemistry guy!
Where have you been rejected from?
Reply 2136
LicktheShade
Ah, I see. Do they require you to do a Science? I forget.


According to their website they expect AAB at A-level, and for you to meet the faculty requirements, so they require a science if you're joining the faculty of science and doing the BSc, but they don't if you're joining the faculty of the arts and doing the MA.
Reply 2137
Rejection for English. Oh well.
I'm just glad they finally replied.
Reply 2138
Vickyy
Rejection for English. Oh well.
I'm just glad they finally replied.

My commisserations :frown:
Where are you going now? Do you already have all your replies?
Reply 2139
LicktheShade
Ah, I see. Do they require you to do a Science? I forget. And even if you don't, shouldn't Psychology count more if you're applying for a Psychology course?!
They might take into account the Chemistry. I dropped Chemistry becuase I thought I'd failed, but it turned out I did better in it than Biology which I kept up :frown: I hate my Biology teacher as well, but loved the Chemistry guy!
Where have you been rejected from?


a fail at a-level = U so their not even aware of my chemistry :smile:
i would have thought psychology would have accounted for something but... maybe not :frown: o bumer. im sorry to hear that. :frown:

erm Nottingham twice and Durham (but they'v tranfersd me over to be considered for an applied pyschology course :frown: ) kinda pissed.

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