I’m in Year 13 and really want to go to Oxford especially after going on the UNIQ summer school, but my college’s career advisors are really strongly advising me not to. I’m predicted AAB and want to do Law where I would need AAA, and trying to convince my teacher to predict me an A is taking a while and I’m not sure if they will.
I went to a state secondary school and achieved 887777666 at GCSE, and I’m also from a POLAR4 Quintile 1 postcode. I do think by the end I could achieve at least AAA or even A*AA, but I don’t think two of my teachers think so and my careers advisor said that it’s unrealistic I could get three A’s I’d get the grades since in two of my subjects I only got B’s and C’s in Year 12. My careers advisor also criticised me based on my personal statement draft but I didn’t get chance to explain that I wanted to completely redo it/
already knew it wasn’t the best or what I wanted to actually submit, and wanted help with it, he basically said I’m ‘absolutely not what they’re looking for’ and was very discouraging.
I’m not sure if I should trust the opinion of the career’s advisors since they don’t really know me and didn’t really let me explain my situation, or if I should risk applying and see how it goes. I was also thinking if I do get better grades at the end I could take a gap year and apply with those.
If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it as I’m really unsure what would be best doing.