A Level results on Thursday

[ojrules]

^^ hertfordshire might specialise/be reputable in the subject maybe... havn't read this thread from front to cover.. anyone going to bath?....

also on an unrelated note, anyone going to v festival tommorrow?....


and lol ^^ at w11tho .. (like funny comment, im not laughing at you)--- i also wouldnt expect oxbridge to go for the less bright, nicer student.. this tends to be the bath/bristol/warwick/durham/(insert uni here) lot... although i must say i was surprised i got a place at bath, after getting aab, at an offer of aaa. (in fairness i'd clearly fluffed up one exam- b,a,a,d), and this wasnt an important subject to them, still i feel very lucky compared to people who miss out on mere percent)

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Really? I must remind myself and my colleagues of this fact when we interview for fresh undergraduates later this year.

For which college do you interview and at which University? You may know my father.

Also, are suggesting that you'd prioritise exam grades marks over interview performance and extra curricular interests and performance? Just because someone is predicted five As at A-levels, but came across terribly in the interview, you'd take them over someone predicted three As and came across very well?

My point is that most Oxbridge colleges do not need to do this - the places are in such demand that it is implied that whatever the intake from the best candidates selected to fill the places, they'll be top academic achievers.

 

[muon]

Really? I must remind myself and my colleagues of this fact when we interview for fresh undergraduates later this year.

Nice.

Like I said at the end of my post. The guy will have to seriously mess up the interview to fail to get in with his grades next year. With a year out and time to prepare, I don't see it happening.

Would you agree?

 

[w11tho]

For which college do you interview and at which University? You may know my father

I interview at Cambridge, but I'm very familiar with the process of Oxford. Anything else you'd like to tell me about what I should be looking for during interview?

 

[w11tho]

Also, are suggesting that you'd prioritise exam grades marks over interview performance and extra curricular interests and performance? My point is that most Oxbridge do not need to do this - the places are in such demand that it is implied that whatever the intake from the best candidates selected to fill the places, they'll be top academic achievers.

The exams I'm referring to are those that would be sat at Oxford/Cambridge. Colleges want their cohort to do well. They attempt to judge how well an applicant would do in those exams during interview.

 

[w11tho]

Nice.

Like I said at the end of my post. The guy will have to seriously mess up the interview to fail to get in with his grades next year. With a year out and time to prepare, I don't see it happening.

Would you agree?

Apologies - I missed this.

I don't know anything about the individual application, but certainly on paper he looks good. Had he been invited to interview, he might have been brilliant - I simply can't tell! However, as you say, if he applies again he will have an awful lot of preparation time. Interviewers will know this and probably expect a little more of him than they would from applicants who were applying during their A-Levels.

For instance, whenever I've interviewed someone post A-Levels, I've generally not used the same type of questions I've used for those who've applied during their A-Levels.

 

[chriscpritchard]

So you got A*AA and you're going to Hertfordshire? That's the uni people go to if all else fails as a back up. It's about 80th in the league tables. You have grades for a top 15 uni easily.

Considered the best for the course I'm doing, has a paid placement year, has a brilliant healthcare simulation suite, teaches advanced driving as part of the course (increasing employability), as well as having some modules that other unis don't have (for example, trackside safety and extricating from under trains with TFL/London Underground), I also really like the university, having visited it three times

 

[TS7]

Considered the best for the course I'm doing, has a paid placement year, has a brilliant healthcare simulation suite, teaches advanced driving as part of the course (increasing employability), as well as having some modules that other unis don't have (for example, trackside safety and extricating from under trains with TFL/London Underground), I also really like the university, having visited it three times

Ah fair enough. Congratulations and good luck at uni! I hope you've sorted accommdation out as I have a number of friends who went last year and had to live in hotels for there first year! Which may be better actually.

 

[chriscpritchard]

Ah fair enough. Congratulations and good luck at uni! I hope you've sorted accommdation out as I have a number of friends who went last year and had to live in hotels for there first year! Which may be better actually.

Yup, accom's all sorted... all I have to do now is turn up

 

[GTRacer]

Woke up at in the morning to find I was in clearing. Go to school, turns out I met my offer, had to call my university (QMUL) to sort it out. Can't wait to start English Lit. there, they have a brilliant department!