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Negatives of Oxbridge

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The_Lonely_Goatherd
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I'm really not that bothered now.

(Okay, not getting an interview would hurt, but bar that, I'm not overly concerned)
necessarily benevolent
Er, no, to be quite frank I wouldn't care less if I was rejected.

While I recognise that the literal meaning of your post is not the main impression you're trying to drive home :dry: Clearly if you were rejected by Cambridge or Oxford you would have had to apply to start with. And you wouldn't pay £10 for your application on top of your standard UCAS application fee, nor have gone to the extra hassel if you 'wouldn't care less'. Anybody who claims that they really don't care that they were rejected, or tries to give the impression that they applied just to see if they could get in, frankly just end up looking as though they care too much about their image :s-smilie:

Edit: just saw the latest post, but the general observation still stands.
You only need to ask some of the people on here to see how I felt before I applied. Now, I've come down to earth.
necessarily benevolent
You only need to ask some of the people on here to see how I felt before I applied. Now, I've come down to earth.

Ok, as long as you don't flip to the opposite extreme, which is the other danger. I was rejected my first time round, and know the feeling. However I think it helped me for my second application, because that time round I had nothing to lose. The worst had already happened, and I was far more chilled.
necessarily benevolent
I'm really not that bothered now.

(Okay, not getting an interview would hurt, but bar that, I'm not overly concerned)


LOL

dude you have been posting and worrying if youre good enough for oxford for like a year on tsr - don't say you don't care because you obviously do.
One negative is that not every college's bar has cheap booze.

The counter-argument is damn, go to Emma! Even if you have an interview for here the next morning, do it.
BurningSnowman
One negative is that not every college's bar has cheap booze.

The counter-argument is damn, go to Emma! Even if you have an interview for here the next morning, do it.

Here? :confused: Altogether your post is very confusing. It is late though...
Craghyrax
Here? :confused: Altogether your post is very confusing. It is late though...

Emma in Cambridge. :smile: It's pretty nice and a lot cheaper than my college.

It is indeed late and the content of my post might not be entirely unrelated to its incoherence. :yep:
BurningSnowman
Emma in Cambridge. :smile: It's pretty nice and a lot cheaper than my college.

Emma the college is fantastic, mostly very pretty and also has awesome people and some really good societies, let alone Dr King ( :adore:) - its currently my home away from Peterhouse :love: - however the bar is hideously ugly! I generally only ever drink one or two drinks at a time, so the price isn't really enough to entice me :p:

Where are you at college?
BurningSnowman

It is indeed late and the content of my post might not be entirely unrelated to its incoherence. :yep:

Cool username. Ish
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Craghyrax
Clearly if you were rejected by Cambridge or Oxford you would have had to apply to start with. And you wouldn't pay £10 for your application on top of your standard UCAS application fee, nor have gone to the extra hassel if you 'wouldn't care less'. Anybody who claims that they really don't care that they were rejected, or tries to give the impression that they applied just to see if they could get in, frankly just end up looking as though they care too much about their image :s-smilie:


I don't care about my image, I'm telling the truth! Up to the time little after my UCAS application was sent off, I really wanted to go to Oxford, nowhere else. But for one reason or another, the idea lost a bit of its appeal to me. Maybe it's because the university did not seem as mystical and far-flung as before, maybe I felt less that I was good enough. It just did.
I truly realized this on Friday when I was given an offer by York. It was astonishing to find I was excited by the possibility of going to a top university next year. If I was feeling the same as I was before, I would have not bat an eyelid; it's not Oxford, I would have thought.

I'm not trying to portray myself to everyone here in a better light. I still want to get a place, it is simply not that powerful a desire anymore. Even so, I am preparing for the written test to ensure the best chance for my getting an interview. I would be devastated if I didn't get one, but if I do get one and got rejected as a result, disappointed, but very little skin off my teeth. I've got an offer from York!
Mmm yes, but that's not the same as not caring at all. Nobody likes being rejected on supposedly academic grounds. That's just psychology :s-smilie: I was quite miffed that Bristol had rejected me for Politics when York had given me an offer.
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I would be devastated if I didn't get one, but if I do get one and got rejected as a result, disappointed, but very little skin off my teeth.


Mixed metaphor ahoy!
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Scipio90
Mixed metaphor ahoy!

Meh. Water off a camel's nose.:biggrin:
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Mmm yes, but that's not the same as not caring at all. Nobody likes being rejected on supposedly academic grounds. That's just psychology :s-smilie: I was quite miffed that Bristol had rejected me for Politics when York had given me an offer.


I do care, but not as much as before.

Scipio90
Mixed metaphor ahoy!


:eek4:
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:eek4:

lol

..and Scipio: by now TSR may collectively be giving you the hint that correcting peoples' english probably won't amount to much popularity, charming though you are in every other respect :p:
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Craghyrax
..and Scipio: by now TSR may collectively be giving you the hint that correcting peoples' english probably won't amount to much popularity


I do not care if I am loved, as long as I am feared. :p:


Craghyrax
charming though you are in every other respect :p:


:love:
Scipio90
I do not care if I am loved, as long as I am feared. :p:

Well you certainly won't manage that, so you may as well opt for the second best strategy :biggrin:
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Craghyrax
Well you certainly won't manage that


*hides behind door*

BOO!

That fearful enough for you? :p:
Craghyrax
Emma the college is fantastic, mostly very pretty and also has awesome people and some really good societies, let alone Dr King ( :adore:) - its currently my home away from Peterhouse :love: - however the bar is hideously ugly! I generally only ever drink one or two drinks at a time, so the price isn't really enough to entice me :p:


The 'mostly very pretty' part presumably referring to the eyesore of South Court? It may be ugly, but I do very much love living here. The nautical theme is bizarre though... I don't know if you've been into the accomodation bits next to the bar, but our fire alarm buttons look like portholes, and it feels like being in a submarine when you're in the staircases. I couldn't love it more though :smile:

I think anyone complimenting Emma will just send me off on a huge spiel about how great it is, so I will contain myself now, and say that yes, it's awesome and leave it at that :smile:
Zoedotdot
The 'mostly very pretty' part presumably referring to the eyesore of South Court?

The bar's not much of a looker either :p:

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