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The "I've been pooled" thread

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Fixesin
Yes but the sample size is not representative of the whole population, unless you assume that it is normally distributed...


um...really dont like thinking about statistics...as in whether stuff are distributed evenly or not...brings back too much memories of S1!!! i think i just said it to give myself some hope!
bibliotheque
I'm a girl!

But not everyone was applying for the same subject as me or will have the same interview notes as me . Since they don't take the school into account, the amount of people who are accepted or rejected from mine, won't affect my outcome.


lol!!! sorri my mistake didnt check your profile page!!! but now that i have i realised you go to a grammer school....i go to a private school....do you think that that had an impact....as in not being from the state sector?
Well there is still hope guys and gals, I got a mail back from my college saying they are making me an offer and the letter is going out on Monday :biggrin:

FYI - SAQ was inactive, then active at the same college, no UCAS Track update (but then they are only just putting my offer together)

SPS @ Hughes 2010 entry
Torosanana
lol!!! sorri my mistake didnt check your profile page!!! but now that i have i realised you go to a grammer school....i go to a private school....do you think that that had an impact....as in not being from the state sector?


I do think it has an impact but not in the way that admissions at universities think about us. Instead I think that in terms of results they make more allowances for people who have gone to schools that don't perform that well in the league tables, for example.

The biggest difference is the education itself. Private and to an extent grammar schools are likely to give candidates an advantage (of course this is a generalisation and not true in many cases) because they are more likely to have provided a supportive environment where everyone works at roughly the same level, which may not be the case elsewhere.

Another advantage that private/grammar schools may have is the opportunities that are offered to them beyond the syllabus. For example, a friend of mine who attended my school between years 7 and 11 moved to one of the country's best private schools for sixth form. During these two years she has been forced to run societies revelant to the degree she will be studying and take part in debating and enter competitions for it. Alongside this the school has taken its students on weekend courses to help them etc. This year she got into Cambridge.

Other schools won't be able to offer these sorts of things. Of course I understand that the private school I refer to is probably a rare case, but all things considered I reckon it's the only difference between state and private applicants.
Walkerslaw
Well there is still hope guys and gals, I got a mail back from my college saying they are making me an offer and the letter is going out on Monday :biggrin:

FYI - SAQ was inactive, then active at the same college, no UCAS Track update (but then they are only just putting my offer together)

SPS @ Hughes 2010 entry

Oh my God! Congrats!
I've been reading this thread for a while, getting gloomier and gloomier. It seemed the offers were petering out and the rejections flooding in. BUT dont despair! I got an offer today from the college I was pooled to. Had heard nothing since my reinterview over a week ago. Didn't dare jinx SAQ by looking at it. Offer came by post, A4 envelope. Really, I'd given up. So stay hopeful
Walkerslaw
Well there is still hope guys and gals, I got a mail back from my college saying they are making me an offer and the letter is going out on Monday :biggrin:

FYI - SAQ was inactive, then active at the same college, no UCAS Track update (but then they are only just putting my offer together)

SPS @ Hughes 2010 entry


Wow congrats!!!!

I've just e-mailed the college and I'm hoping for my decision (probably rejection) soon...
Found out my dad rang up the college I was reinterviewed at and they said that I could assume that I had been rejected as I had not heard...
bibliotheque
Found out my dad rang up the college I was reinterviewed at and they said that I could assume that I had been rejected as I had not heard...


That seems absurd... how about all the other people here? The ones that have e-mailed and got offers... and how Walkerslaw's offer letter is being sent out on mondy...
Fixesin
That seems absurd... how about all the other people here? The ones that have e-mailed and got offers... and how Walkerslaw's offer letter is being sent out on mondy...


I hope you're right. :smile:
Why does it seem absurd? You are all so impatient!!
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LH123
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Yeah all of you, stop being impatient! :mad:
LH123
Yeah all of you, stop being impatient! :mad:

:o:
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bibliotheque
:o:


It was purposefully ironic, because I am freeee! :awesome:
LH123
It was purposefully ironic, because I am freeee! :awesome:


Wait... how did you get out of the pool??? Is there a secret magical passage that one must take?? Tell me!!!! TELLLLLL MMMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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Fixesin
Wait... how did you get out of the pool??? Is there a secret magical passage that one must take?? Tell me!!!! TELLLLLL MMMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!


It's called a rejection letter. :h:
LH123
It's called a rejection letter. :h:


Oh... ok... ....
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Fixesin
Oh... ok... ....

or UCAS track :smile:

it ends it all quite abruptly
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gimmicc
Hi, just to say Im still in the pool too.
Medicine, starting at Pembroke and got a second interview at Kings on Tuesday.
Any other medics still swimming?
gimmicc
Hi, just to say Im still in the pool too.
Medicine, starting at Pembroke and got a second interview at Kings on Tuesday.
Any other medics still swimming?


Try and track down the English tutors at King's and beg them to take me back. :biggrin:

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