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wooper
Is this definitely true about Fitz? Are they emailing decision letters even to applicants who live in Britain?

If so, do you know when they will do this? I haven't received anything yet. Has anybody? Thanks! :smile:

I dunno, you tell me. You're the applicant, we're all merely spectators- i just saw it in the "when does cambridge give its decisions" thread :dontknow:
Athena
Is it snowing in Cambridge yet? I'm stuck in a lecture atm, and I want to know what it's going to be like when I get back into town :p:

Not yet. That's probably a good thing if you're driving, but I wish it would so I could play with the cat in the snow and go into work late!

Lovely to see you last night! It was fun! :biggrin:
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munro90
It seems some colleges (fitz apparently) are emailing decisions to applicants, does that mean an email without an attachment is gonna become the equivalent of a thin envelope? (i was gonna say this to them but realised it was probably a little cruel )
I got a thin envelope. Perhaps it's college dependent.
Athena
sorry if it all got a bit sickening
no need to apologise. And anyway, it really wasn't. We just couldn't match it cos i was sitting on my spinster stool!
Haha found an offer holder for medicine at trinity!
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Ugh I feel so ill. And I'm going back to Cambridge tomorrow. Just hoping that trains will be going ok.
alex_hk90
If I was an admissions tutor and read about the thin envelope thing, I would start padding the rejection envelopes to the same size as the offer ones - maybe with UCAS Extra / Clearing information? :p:

:ditto:
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Melz0r
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Ah, it's pretty crazy over in the applicants' thread! Seems like only yesterday, etc etc...
Melz0r
Ah, it's pretty crazy over in the applicants' thread! Seems like only yesterday, etc etc...

Yeah. I wander if their offer holders chat thread will be as...erm interesting (is that the correct word?)... as ours was last year
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Craghyrax
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They noticed!!! :zomg: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/05/higher-education-careers-advice-professional
Melz0r
Ah, it's pretty crazy over in the applicants' thread! Seems like only yesterday, etc etc...

Yeh, we're monitoring it :shifty: Like your sig :biggrin:
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Melz0r
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It could be lupus
Yeah. I wander if their offer holders chat thread will be as...erm interesting (is that the correct word?)... as ours was last year


They seem like they're getting the hang of the impenetrable cliquey vibe! They need a Dave (now I actually know him, I never call him Dave, and it seems weird...).
Melz0r
Ah, it's pretty crazy over in the applicants' thread! Seems like only yesterday, etc etc...


I've been stirring up fear and panic :colone:
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Craghyrax


That link's interesting. I can certainly concur that 'careers advice' in my school was terrible. I like the "we're monitoring it" - the Cam forum mafia, headed by Craggy, has it under control :biggrin:
Melz0r
They seem like they're getting the hang of the impenetrable cliquey vibe! They need a Dave (now I actually know him, I never call him Dave, and it seems weird...).

Yeah, though I was right the whole time that he was just acting like that online and wasn't really like that at all. I only ever see him in lectures though
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Melz0r
That link's interesting. I can certainly concur that 'careers advice' in my school was terrible. I like the "we're monitoring it" - the Cam forum mafia, headed by Craggy, has it under control :biggrin:

Lol. I don't actually mod in here but the other mods I work with do and they were like :zomg:
And if the threads on TSR are anything to go by, any teacher giving non-researched advice to sixth formers should be shot.
Craghyrax

That is interesting. I have to say my school did not have a notion when it came to careers advice. Not only that but they never really encouraged anyone to apply to Oxbridge at all, rather they discouraged most people
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Melz0r
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It could be lupus
Yeah, though I was right the whole time that he was just acting like that online and wasn't really like that at all. I only ever see him in lectures though


Ersong, as we call him, is actually really nice, if slightly scary when he runs at you at full speed pulling a strange face for no apparent reason :biggrin:
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ukdragon37
I've been stirring up fear and panic :colone:


What page? There's so much of it!
Athena
Actually, I'm the one who's been handing out warnings :wink:

What all have they been doing for the warnings? :lol:

Melz0r
Ersong, as we call him, is actually really nice, if slightly scary when he runs at you at full speed pulling a strange face for no apparent reason :biggrin:

I am sure he is nice. I have just never seen him outside of lectures. He's never out(though to be fair I haven't seen anyone out in a club apart from Tyro who is on this). I think we should encourage someone to become the Dave of their offer holders chat thread. We should maybe even set one up for them tomorrow to encourage it :p:
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Melz0r
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It could be lupus
What all have they been doing for the warnings? :lol:


I am sure he is nice. I have just never seen him outside of lectures. He's never out(though to be fair I haven't seen anyone out in a club apart from Tyro who is on this). I think we should encourage someone to become the Dave of their offer holders chat thread. We should maybe even set one up for them tomorrow to encourage it :p:


No, encouraging a Dave figure would be morally reprehensible, and result in many warnings *looks sweetfacedly at Craggy and Athena*
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It could be lupus
That is interesting. I have to say my school did not have a notion when it came to careers advice. Not only that but they never really encouraged anyone to apply to Oxbridge at all, rather they discouraged most people

Yeh that's precisely the problem. Makes my blood boil. Just the other day I was chatting to an old college friend (very bad college we went to) who just graduated in Chemistry from Bristol. He made a comment like 'but everyone knows that Cambridge is really expensive to live in!' :mad: The perceptions are treated as gospel truth by smart, educated people along with everyone else.

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