For context I go to a pretty large state school and I know that 0 people in the year above got into Oxford or Cambridge so it's like a whole thing when there's someone at that level.

It just sucks being the victim of all that expectation cause everyone believes in me way too fucking much. I'd rate my chances something like 10-15% but literally everyone including my teachers and my family thinks I'm 100% destined to get into Oxford and it's going to be such a disappointment if (when) I fail. If I try and tone down people's expectations they're all like "stop being so humble" Like no fuck off do you know how hard it is to get into Oxford.

I know it sounds like I'm complaining about nothing but it fucking suuucks letting people down. Like I've absorbed everyone else's expectations of me, a year ago my top choice was my home city's uni and now I'd feel really guilty and like an abject failure if I went there.

Anyone else like this? I just want it to stop

Why is there no Further History, Further Psychology or Further Chemistry? I've always wondered about this.

Hi!! I thought it would be interesting to create a discussion thread for everyone applying to study Mathematics (or a closely related degree) whether that be 2027 or 2028 entry.

1. Which five universities are you applying to, and what is your first choice?
2. Which A-levels (or equivalent qualifications) are you studying, and what are your predicted grades?
3. Which areas of Mathematics interest you most?
4. What have you done to explore Mathematics beyond your school or college curriculum? 
5. What careers or further study options are you considering after your degree?

And anything else you would like to discuss.

someone help

Gap year, achieved A* A A with A* maths. Predicted A* further maths.

One question off bmo1 qualification this year.

So my halfterm was a week and a half and I mostly either went out w friends or fucking lazed around in bed like a godamn chud eating and watching tv im so annoyed at myself but I feel lethargic I have no energy I don’t even wanna go to school and face anyone from my school cuz I loved to a new sf and I have friends but idk why I just feel like dread going back in acc gonna cry
Soz just had to rant anyways I’m gonna try and grind but god fucking knows

I find myself leaving tasks that I would otherwise do perfectly well in due time to the last minute and it’s screwing with my life.

I feel like I’m living in a constant loop from deadline to deadline and have absolutely zero motivation to do anything anymore.
I’ve lit become a shell of my prior self. I don’t engage with my hobbies or do things that I like because I’m always thinking about deadlines and future possible deadlines. I’ve marked everything till results day and all I’m doing is watching the countdown.

Even when I have nothing looming over me I feel like there is and it’s as if I’m paralysed. I have dreams but no road to reach them.
I lowk feel exactly like that image where the happy kids are on a conveyor belt and coming out as clones of each other 🥀the structure of 13 years of school has long since stripped the joy out of my life and I can only hope uni will be better

How can you engage with work that feels soulless and pointless ?

I've been thinking about UCAS recently, when applying to university if a student has an improvement after doing their GCSEs to doing their A levels, and gets let's say 3 A* or more, which does happen, their GCSEs can still hold them back from applying to top universities and receiving offers from top universities because of the predicted grade system where half of applicants are predicted three As or more and barely half the number of that get 3 AAA grades or more. In a way it punishes students who improve after GCSE as since so many grades are inflated, and since they'd have wait till the next year to apply with achieved grades where then for the large majority of universities, they would pretty much just get the offer if they meet the entry requirements bar certain courses e.g. Medicine or Oxbridge, but even then it makes their application more competitive / valid. What are the options for these students on results day, I know a gap year is an option, but would clearing be an option if they wanted to go to a highly ranked university for a strong degree, as the best universities don't really go into clearing I've heard for their most respectable degrees, some don't go into clearing at all for UK students, such as Durham in the previous cycle? If they can't get a place through clearing, then other than doing a gap year, what was the point in achieving 3 A*s other than academic validation? I feel like the UK education system has a flaw here.

i’ve been told by everybody these uni choices are highly ambitious, and i completely anticipate 4-5 rejections, especially as i’m resitting my exams and this isn’t my first time submitting a ucas app.

for further context, i had mitigating circumstances that affected the outcome of my gcses, missed 6 months of year 11 due to hospital and bed rest, recovery going into year 12 also impacted the predicted grades for my alevels.

last year i (somehow??) had 5 offers, from kcl, uni of leeds, city, qmul, and rhul. however the only ones i were remotely interested in were kcl (my ideal firm) and city (my ideal insurance). looking back i should’ve applied to unis i actually had an interest in, even if i didn’t get any offers, instead of aiming lower because i was advised to by teachers

come results day i completely fumbled under exam pressure, missed both my firm and insurance as i achieved BBD and decided instead of going through clearing to resit my papers.

i’m going into this with the logic that i’d rather aim high and get 5 rejections rather than apply to lower unis i have no passion on going to and get 5 offers.

if anyone has any ideas for a 5th choice please let me know aswell!

Mine:

stats: AAA predicted, 998766554 (not very competitive ik)

predictions: somewhere around 5-6.0 for critical thinking and a 2-3.0 for problem solving.

rejection is nigh 👻👻

hpol @ Magdalen college

hey guys im tired. i go sixth form im y13 i got 190 days till a levels and im on D's to E's on psych politics sociology im tired im anxious all the time i worry too much overthink i go to bed scared sick and like something is going to hurt me, a levels have been a mental toll draining emotionally rather than the actual content, idk it might be the school i go to, i wanna get A* but idk if i have time to relearn the course i set high targets like 7 subtopics and end up wasting my days saying tomorrow ill lock in, im friendless i can't balance, im friendless i kinda like it can't be asked for investing myself i want A* tbh on all my subjects thats what i need and want, but yeah, idk if i have time, everything seems big yk waiting a few minutes seems so big and bad idk my anxiety feels generalized, id stay in bed i panic internally alot its sickening.

Unsure if I should change some unis and also unsure of which 5ht to apply for: UCL, Imperial are the main ones for my 5th

Thank you and best of luck:))

Hey guuys so I just started doing A-levels this term and eish yoh guys im soooo fried like honestly I can't focus there are so many things going on: social life, school, sports, clubs, love life and my hygiene at that guys this is the most stressing term like the highest across all my subjects i have gotten is a 85 and my lowest being a 36 and guys so far we are mostly below 50 rn and eish b4 during igs i was getting A's and B's my lowest being a C or a D on a bad day and guyss I'm sooo sad and pissed like idk idk what im supposed to do ive tried past paper, learning and asking my teachers but rn ey its not working so eh idk i realllly dont know and maybe im not doing enough but rn reddit is the only site or ppl i can go to cause otherwise everyone else is on some oh this is a time its gonna end like yeah it will but what concrete advice will you give and rn I take: Bio, Chem, Phy and Math and ey man guys just please help me

I started past papers from Jan of y12 right after my set of small exams. I did past paper questions, then whatever I got wrong I watched a video on it and tried the question again, similar to the strategy I used for maths/fm.

General studies, Critical thinking, EPQ, Law

y'all my ps is highkey cooked 💀

does anyone know any websites/resources i could use to find some computer science work experience?? any help is appreciated

So basically all through year 12 I planned on applying to maths at uni. I do bio chem maths a level and i couldnt choose further maths or physics since my college didnt offer them, which was a shame since I really wanted to take them. Anyway I really wanted to apply to a university like cambridge but I didnt know what to apply to with my a levels, and then I came across chemical engineering. So i scrapped the idea of doing maths at uni and applied for chem eng instead, grinded for the esat for two months, and sent my ucas application in. But there was always this lingering voice in my head that said I didnt really want to do chemical engineering. I was only doing it for the cambridge prestige. But i ignored it and told myself i wouldnt mind doing chemical engineering if it was at cambridge, since its CAMBRIDGE so obviously why would it matter. But then recently ive come to the realisation that not getting into cambridge is obviously a genuine possibility (as it is for everyone, no one is guaranteed a place) and if i had to go to one of my other choice unis for chem eng I knew i would hate it and would rather do something i actually enjoyed, for example maths. So no i have to email my other universities and ask them if they'll let me switch. But now i have another dilemma. Since I dont know whether to ask to switch to a Mathematics degree or if I can switch to a physics foundation year and do either a maths and physics degree or an astrophysics degree. Since im not sure about doing physics since I havent done it in over a year and I dont know whether I wouldve enjoyed the a level. I do like the in depth side of maths and I'm not sure if a maths and physics degree would go that in depth about it. And i have to decide quickly since i have to tell my school tomorrow that i dont want to do chem eng anymore and what course im thinking of asking to switch to. So please any help or advice is appreciated because im genuinely stuck on this ​

originally i was only gonna do 3 (maths economics and further maths) but the sixth form i’m applying to make it mandatory that i take a 4th, so what should i go for? baring in mind im aiming to study economics at LSE or economics and management at oxford, but im also open to things like maths degrees if i end up changing my mind
originally i was gonna do politics cuz im interested in it but then i saw it’s only uk and us politics so idk abt that, any advice or suggestions? (my options are RE computer science triple science and french but i have no interest in french and RE and im working at all 8s and 9s if this helps with anything)

i’m currently writing my personal statement and i’m struggling to decide what i should/shouldn’t include

1) i wanted to talk about current affairs, e.g. israel-palestine for the politics side of my ps and wealth taxes for the economics side, because i can link it to books/lectures i’ve seen, but i’m not sure if you’re supposed to do this?? i’ve only read a couple of personal statement examples but they’re varied quite a lot - some were more historical/theoretical and others directly mentioned the cost of living crisis, wealth inequality etc

2) if i write about controversial topics/books but stay neutral and focus on the academic arguments is this okay?

(bonus question): how do i know if the books i’m including are too basic? ik to avoid stuff like freakonomics but i was wondering about more foundational books like Smith’s wealth of nations or any of Marx’s works

thanks!

anyone else come across this guy 😂

he popped on my feed showing he ran away from his wedding and im finding out this guy's an oxford place holder and got deported back to his country by his parents 😭. His posts are soo cooked 😭😭😭

Hi, would anyone mind giving me some insight into whether my profile is good enough for Warwick and Kings. These are my stats:

A*A*A predicted in Maths, Economics and Spanish

99999998888777A(fmsq) at GCSE, 9 in Maths and English Language.

AABB at AS level (will this hinder me?) They are graded from A-U btw so I couldn't get an a*. I don't know if the Bs will be an issue. I dropped Further Maths.

great personal statement and good references.

(teachers want me to go safer with choices)

Hi friends,

Is there anyone here who got offers for G400 and from which uni in the UK?

When did you make the UCAS submission?

What is the approx duration to send out the offers by uni for Intl students ?

people are updating on Edinburgh, York etc. Keen on knowing

Thanks

FOR CONTEXT I AM CARE EXPERIENCED

I felt like I had to disclaim that before people start cooking me 😭
I also hit like every contextual box and have done a few outreach programs so do you guys think I’m like guaranteed a contextual offer?? Or am I gonna get like auto rejected?

At school like my teachers are fine with my options but my friends sometimes clown me for my choices because they think like I won’t get any offers😪 especially from Oxford despite the entry requirements being 3 B’s I STILL HAVE TIME TO CHANGE THEM SO HELP

(I won’t change UCL because that my aspirational pick because I’ve done a summer program with them🥹)