pass at A level

juno

Person_one wrote: »

Really? I said you have a superior attitude, which you do, most people working with teenagers have to deal with a lot worse than that and they don't just stop doing their job when it happens thankfully!

1) That's not the only way you've insulted me

2) It's not my job

thegirlintheattic

Juno, if it's the same one, is a personal statement helper on the TSR forum. It's not a job, you apply for it voluntarily and the only qualification is that you have attended a undergraduate degree course. You get monitored for your first few PS reviews and then read applicants personal statements and give them help to improve them.

Not saying you don't know what your talking about Juno but you did come across as someone who worked in the applications process either at the uni or school end and so was an expert, and that is what has probably mislead people. I was too under the opinion that you worked in the education sector until I recognised the avatar.

juno

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Juno, if it's the same one, is a personal statement helper on the TSR forum. It's not a job, you apply for it voluntarily and the only qualification is that you have attended a undergraduate degree course. You get monitored for your first few PS reviews and then read applicants personal statements and give them help to improve them.

Not saying you don't know what your talking about Juno but you did come across as someone who worked in the applications process either at the uni or school end and so was an expert, and that is what has probably mislead people. I was too under the opinion that you worked in the education sector until I recognised the avatar.

Your first paragraph is totally misleading. That may be what happens now, but doesn't apply retrospectively.

And whilst I may be a personal statement helper, it doesn't mean that I am just a personal statement helper.

thegirlintheattic

juno wrote: »

Your first paragraph is totally misleading. That may be what happens now, but doesn't apply retrospectively.

And whilst I may be a personal statement helper, it doesn't mean that I am just a personal statement helper.

That's what happened about 3 years ago. I didn't say you were only a PS helper but you've already disclosed it's not your job (to review UCAS applications). I'm just pointing out why some people on the thread might have been a little confused.

juno

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

That's what happened about 3 years ago. I didn't say you were only a PS helper but you've already disclosed it's not your job (to review UCAS applications). I'm just pointing out why some people on the thread might have been a little confused.

You're pointing out with completely wrong information, though.

thegirlintheattic

juno wrote: »

You're pointing out with completely wrong information, though.

What exactly are you saying is completely wrong?

I'll happily retract it if it is wrong.

juno

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

What exactly are you saying is completely wrong?

I'll happily retract it if it is wrong.

Your post :rolleyes:

For starters, I've been a PS Helper since 2005, which is longer than 3 years.

thegirlintheattic

juno wrote: »

Your post :rolleyes:

For starters, I've been a PS Helper since 2005, which is longer than 3 years.

"Juno, if it's the same one, is a personal statement helper on the TSR forum. It's not a job, you apply for it voluntarily and the only qualification is that you have attended a undergraduate degree course. You get monitored for your first few PS reviews and then read applicants personal statements and give them help to improve them."

You are a PS helper, it is voluntary, and even in 2005 the qualification to apply was merely that you were at or had graduated from university (although I admit some people were let in around 2005-2006 who had not yet been to university or had been then left but that was a one off).

Maybe when you applied there was not a system of checking the first few reviews so I'll happily say that Juno may not have gone through a system of review checks. The bulk of my statement was completely accurate and gives people an idea of what a PS helper is - so not completely wrong.

I was just trying to point out where people may have got the impression, as I did, that you were employed in a role that involved looking at UCAS applications. Obviously you have taken it the wrong way, so I'm bowing out of this back and forth.

property.advert

I would hope that by the time my child needed to go and visit prospective university campuses they would have enough backbone and common sense to be able to get there and back by themselves and not need mummy and daddy to hold their hand and wipe their ar5e !

If they could not manage that on their own I would think my parenting skills over the last 17 years were pretty crap.

Seanymph

I didn't take my daughter because she is incapable of getting there. Last year she travelled completely alone to Canada, with interconnecting flights and her little sister did the same several months later - and also went to Valencia with a 16 year old friend.

I am far from a 'helicopter parent'.

However this will cost me a lot of money, we have a decent relationship and she values my opinion. Both of those things meant that she wanted me to be there, and I wanted to go. The universities were all over the country, they involved an overnight stay, and were a lovely time for me and my daughter to spend an overnight at a hotel, and go shopping after the viewing.

The days are geared towards parents, offer advice and seminars on funding, accomodation, facilities on campus. And they show prospective students course content, student union, and the amount of local nightclubs.........

I suspect that by the time your child goes to university you will feel differently.

If you don't it doesn't matter though does it, everyone is different. For my daughter it was a nice thing for us to go together, to talk about it, for me to be involved. She made her own decisions regardless, but we went away for our weekends together.