How should I feel about my HWSF offer?

I got my offer for Harris Westminster yesterday, but I lowkey don't know how to feel about the whole thing. :frown:

So, my first concern is my confidence of ability. My test score was 457, my overall score was 558. Is this like good, mid or bad? It would be very useful to know like what its all out of so I could actually see how well i did. However, given the minimum score for my priority group was 551, its making me doubt my confidence. To give some random background, I didn't really take this whole thing seriously at all. I only really took the exam because my mum liked the online open evening and i was bored. i thought it went horribly, the maths exam started so late so i only had like 35 mins and did way under a half of the questions. In contrast, i thought the interview went really well, but now i'm unsure about that given it added 101 to my score... what does that even mean

In more academic scepticism, i'm really not the hard working academic weapon sort hwsf students seem to be. i don't think i'm exaggerating here either. i am an insane procrastinator, i'm yet to start proper revision for my gcses. I'm pretty sure ill get the grades of the offer, but i wont be modelling all 9s. would hwsf be the sort of environment that would kill me or bring out my potential?

so, what i'm really asking here is, can i be confident in my score and am i the right student for hwsf?

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xerinb32

Original post by frannforever

I got my offer for Harris Westminster yesterday, but I lowkey don't know how to feel about the whole thing. :frown:

So, my first concern is my confidence of ability. My test score was 457, my overall score was 558. Is this like good, mid or bad? It would be very useful to know like what its all out of so I could actually see how well i did. However, given the minimum score for my priority group was 551, its making me doubt my confidence. To give some random background, I didn't really take this whole thing seriously at all. I only really took the exam because my mum liked the online open evening and i was bored. i thought it went horribly, the maths exam started so late so i only had like 35 mins and did way under a half of the questions. In contrast, i thought the interview went really well, but now i'm unsure about that given it added 101 to my score... what does that even mean
In more academic scepticism, i'm really not the hard working academic weapon sort hwsf students seem to be. i don't think i'm exaggerating here either. i am an insane procrastinator, i'm yet to start proper revision for my gcses. I'm pretty sure ill get the grades of the offer, but i wont be modelling all 9s. would hwsf be the sort of environment that would kill me or bring out my potential?
so, what i'm really asking here is, can i be confident in my score and am i the right student for hwsf?

your score isnt a problem at all, about 50% of the students at hwsf are fsm (priority 1) and their cut off score was only 440, so you could definitely have well over a hundred points more than some students at the school.
about the interview, for comparison i came out of it thinking i had no chance of an offer, and got 91 points.
cant really comment on whether you’re the right student for it?? i think it’s definitely a rigorous school, with the saturday classes asww, but if you’re willing to put in some effort i’m sure you’ll be fine. as long as you’ve got the offer, you defo have what it takes to study there, but you may be happier somewhere else, thats up to you.