Know anyone who should NOT have got into Cambridge but did!

brimstone

At risk of being extremely harsh, surely anyone who goes on to get 2.2s and 3rds without any decent excuse (e.g. illness, genuinely poor teaching) would generally fall into this category?

At risk of being extremely harsh, surely anyone who goes on to get 2.2s and 3rds without any decent excuse (e.g. illness, genuinely poor teaching) would generally fall into this category?

I think my college implied to us in one of the many talks they gave that they consider anything below a 2.1 as a underperformance, so I think you could come to that conclusion.

Interesting comment. I think that is fair enough actually, if you are getting a 3rd then you shouldn't be at that university, but 2.2 might be a bit harsh.

Which college is that?

They won't give offers to people they think are likely to get a 2.2 at any point (certainly my college's admissions tutor made that explicit).


I'd say it holds true of most colleges. At my college anyone who got a 2.2 would have to go for a mixture of a motivational talk and a b0llocking with both the Master and the Senior Tutor at the beginning of Michaelmas term.

Just because they didn't get a 2.1 doesn't mean they SHOUDN'T be there. They got in. They fulfilled whatever qualifications. Frankly, they can do what the hell they want with that position, and it doesn't mean they shouldn't have been there in the first place. It's a university degree, not a divine responsibility.

At risk of being extremely harsh, surely anyone who goes on to get 2.2s and 3rds without any decent excuse (e.g. illness, genuinely poor teaching) would generally fall into this category?

Einstein regularly failed school in his early days and could not speak a single word untill he was about 11

Uebermenschen.

lol sorry about being pedantic, but if you correct him, then I may as well, it's:

Uebermensch

or Übermensch.

(cause he was talking about the intellectual uebermensch

Fairly sure neither of these are true.

(Because he was talking about the intellectual Übermensch)

Didnt David Miliband get into Oxford, even though he got BBB (if that) for A-levels? Yes, I know its not Cambridge, as OP asked.

lol sorry about being pedantic, but if you correct him, then I may as well, it's:

Uebermensch

or Übermensch.

(cause he was talking about the intellectual uebermensch

1. I do believe he used the word "muppets", which is, I do believe, the third person plural.

2. I am aware that "ue", or indeed, "[any vowel]e" indicates an umlaut.

3. BUt, while we're being 'pedantic', you forgot to close your parentheses. []

I did not mean to enroll such an argument about such a silly thing.
I just thought I might add the correct word, since German is my mother language, but I did not want to imply in any sense the 'oh l know better than you'. Im quite amazed actually that such words are known in English, since many of my friends certainly haven't heard of it, and their language is German, too. (And I certainly wouldn't know such expressions in English)
So yes, I did write it in a hurry, and I never said I was proficient in English or grammar rules in general, and I did not mean to even pick on this for so long, I really just wanted to add the correct word Übermensch, since I thought it might be useful, which it probably isn't though...

I understand, but you were wrong to correct me, and of course I would pull you up on it, if not to save me from looking stupid (without cause) but to correct you.

Untermenschen and Uebermenschen are words that have been adopted into the English language, alongside such words as Kaffeklatsch and Blitzkrieg.