Truth about College rumors? Help (n defend ur college?)

you got feedback ?!? i got no feedback and neither did my school (well thats what my school told me anyway)

I think my tutor may have asked for it, like Willa suggests.

My history tutor is also good friends with Dr. Archer as well.............

well it's quite confusing - they're not saying you can't get there without A-level Maths, but on the other hand they really appreciate it

It wasn't really either - "require" is very difficult to define in this sort of thing. While they might take people without the subject, not having it is often a major drawback.

I do PPE at Hertford. To be honest, I didn't really go through all the internal turmoil a lot of people on here seem to go through (perhaps a function of not discovering TSR till post-offer?) and you maybe shouldn't bother - often, it's more a matter of how good you are at maths rather than how much of it you've done (loads of A-level is irrelevant)

Hey wouldn't that give you an edge, since your teacher will know what sort of appilicants Dr Archer likes? (assuming he was interviewing you...)

Ugh...I got an offer for Merton and am now thinking of just not showing up for my exams! I did an open application, not knowing anything about any of the colleges, and was offered a place there. I have no intention of spending my time at university with my nose in a book the whole time. Ah, well. I can just let down their reputation. But rich, you say? How so? And how's the bar? At least tell me there's a bar...

Ah... right, when they say that they usually mean - Be a genuis or have maths.

... but i found that being around people who do match the stereotype does have an influence on you. For example, being at my college has made me work harder than i've ever worked before because i'm surrounded by people who work loads. Whereas a friend at another college works so much less even though he does the same subject, because people seem to work less overall at his college.

Well, that would entirely depend on how good all the other applicants were- the quality changes year on year.

Teachers at a lot of schools who send pupils to Oxbridge have a general idea of what they are looking for from past experience, but it still doesn't guarantee anything since competition gets harder and the quality changes each year.

But as I say, you certainly do not end up matching the stereotype exactly....if at all!

oh that sounds really encouraging

You don't have to work all hours of the day to do well, or even your best. Though I think, doing maths, I could get away with less than in say the lab sciences or in an arts subject when some are determined to read absolutely everything of relevance

It's hard not to fall to peer pressure...sigh~

Oh hey maybe I'll start working if I get in...

You obviously know nothing of the Exeter attitude to work...

and that is...?

"Well, I suppose I should do some work... oh hang on, there's something good on the telly/someone's going out to the pub/it's a nice day outside/I want to go rowing... sod it, I'll work later..."

Except when there's mods/prelims/finals when it's:
"****, ****, ****! Must work, must work! *hides in the library for six weeks*"

Obviously there's exceptions. Some people live in the library all year round, and some people [like me] who still haven't registered that the culmination of 3 years work is happening in 3 1/2 weeks. But that's a fairly good outline.

Come on! You be fine! Anyways, you have it upto As right? Is the criteria same for EU students?

Anyways am going to an Oxbridge talk tomorrow... any Qs, tell me now and i'll ask at this thing tomorrow...

Looks like I'll fit in just fine.

Am I the only offer-holder who's only thought about starting revision, and not put it into practise yet? My exams start on May 13th, and finish one month from today!! (God, I'm gonna be so wasted!)
It's so irritating; the only revision I've ever done in the past is for subjects like Maths and History, and the exams I'm sitting this year (french, german, english) I have never had to revise for! I don't know how to revise for German...

"Well, I suppose I should do some work... oh hang on, there's something good on the telly/someone's going out to the pub/it's a nice day outside/I want to go rowing... sod it, I'll work later..."

Except when there's mods/prelims/finals when it's:
"****, ****, ****! Must work, must work! *hides in the library for six weeks*"

so, could you please ask them about the maths for me tomorrow? if an AS equivalent is enough? (it's apparently not for some colleges ...but i'm quite good at it - i constantly get the best grades from my class and at the beginning opf the year the teacher persuaded me to go to the higher level class... --and i was stupid enough to not to do that

Ok, no probs... i'm sure one more Q wouldn't kill me (I mean it would harm me mentally though ) Anyways, can't you pick up your teacher's offer now? I mean you can just continue maths and finish it next year... or how do your school work?

oh thanks
well i really can't - it was in September...i can't change my subjects now, in the middle of the IB programme Hopefully the admission tutors won't be concerned about it that much