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parents keep bombarding uni admissions with excuses

ok so - i'm at a uni with a collegiate system in the countryside; my parents are incredibly overprotective and have been emailing the university admissions with so-called extenuating circumstances (which honestly just sound like excuses once accumulated and put together) - i don't want to have my credibility diminished in the eyes of my tutors before i've even arrived.

should i just leave this be? i cannot persuade my parents to stop (they're... insistent in their ways), but i honestly do have a lot of issues going on - and can't risk becoming the boy who cried wolf once time comes to bank on the goodwill of others.

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martin7

Original post by zenopu

ok so - i'm at a uni with a collegiate system in the countryside; my parents are incredibly overprotective and have been emailing the university admissions with so-called extenuating circumstances (which honestly just sound like excuses once accumulated and put together) - i don't want to have my credibility diminished in the eyes of my tutors before i've even arrived.
should i just leave this be? i cannot persuade my parents to stop (they're... insistent in their ways), but i honestly do have a lot of issues going on - and can't risk becoming the boy who cried wolf once time comes to bank on the goodwill of others.

If you're a current student, why are they contacting admissions about anything at all?

And what are the extenuating circumstances related to? Are they for things that happened in the past that affected your performance at A-level (or equivalent)? Or are they related to ongoing issues that might affect your performance in future?

Hopefully the university should be telling your parents that they can neither confirm nor deny that you have a place there. They shouldn't be dealing with your parents without your permission.