Any Ideas - daughter had 4 rejections

poet123

The stats for Bolton speak for themselves though...just take a look.

Dyslexic students are in no way inferior students to others,just different.

freebie_junkie

Do you have up to date achievement stats for ex-Bolton students? We would be interested to look at them.

I never suggested that I was in any way inferior, I don't think I am.

melancholly

at risk of getting hit in cross fire, can i suggest that an in depth discussion of the merits of bolton uni might not be the most helpful thing to the OP and might take the thread out on a tangent? perhaps another thread?

twinkle162

auburnette wrote: »

Some terrible advice from her school re: insurance offers. I got 5xA at A-level and one A at AS and I had an insurance offer of BBB. What were the careers advisors at your daughter's school thinking?? Insurance offers should always work on a fairly pessimistic assessment of results. I'd be tempted to complain to them once this is all sorted out and she has her results.

She should probably get into somewhere good through Extra and/or clearing. I know of someone that had a disaster with results and got a place at Exeter through clearing, so there are good unis out there for her. She needs to concentrate on getting those results so that if Extra doesn't work out, clearing still can. And not to be too disheartened. I also know an AAA(A) student who got rejected from 3 of her 5 choices and went on to get a first from LSE. This isn't the end of the world for her, though it might feel like it. Hope she is ok.

You make a very good point. The career advice at the school is at fault. There always needs to be a back-up, i.e. which she is guaranteed to get good enough grades for.

twinkle162

Janeyjaz wrote: »

Thank you once again for the advice, my daughter is finding it difficult at the moment, I have to say that as far as I know she had no advice from school about what Universities she should apply to, for financial reasons I would prefer that she did not take a gap year, as she gets EMA this year and will get a small amount of help if she goes to University this year, but at the moment she is convinced that she will not be going anywhere, though does also talk about working for a charity in America - which I am not keen on her undertaking, it's a charity in Florida and helps people who self harm.

I know a lot of people take gap years, some not by choice, but I think for a gap year to be beneficial it has to add something to her ucas form for the next year. It is also a crazy amount of money to blow on a year 'off,' and there is always the chance that she will 'get out of the way' of studying!

My parents would have laughed in my face at the mention of me doing a gap year! Best to get qualified in something first.

cpfcstar

Is your daughters personal statement a problem?
See, I didn't do excellently in my AS I got Cs/Ds but a teacher helped me write my personal statement and I got conditional offers for all of my five universities. Obviously it is beneficial to write supporting criterea that might help interest the unis, like sufficient work experience, independence, why you think uni is a good choice for you, your goals, etc.

What website does your daughter run? I am desperately trying to find Journalism experience, would be great if your daughter had some info for me, thanks!

Edit:
Oh and on another note of your daughter wanting to travel, I am going to America this summer to work at a summer camp with CCUSA. The program only lasts two months at most and you have the chance to work with disabled or underpriveledged children or if you do not fancy that you can choose just to work in a traditional camp doing sports, drama, etc. The whole program costs around £249 including your flights, but you get paid more than double that in wages, and you are back in August before Uni!!

twinkle162

melancholly wrote: »

at risk of getting hit in cross fire, can i suggest that an in depth discussion of the merits of bolton uni might not be the most helpful thing to the OP and might take the thread out on a tangent? perhaps another thread?

Lol. :rotfl:

Janeyjaz

She has been advised from school to apply through Extra to a local uni that still has vacancies on an English course - hope they won't feel aggrieved that they were not on her first choice of five, her Dad wants her to apply for a Journalism course and I don't know!
The website is https://www.organised-sound.com and was designed by my 15 year old son - so please don't be too critical, after last week when my youngest had heart surgery and Sarah was completely rejected and the car failed it's MOT and will have to be scrapped - not a good week.
Never mind little one is OK - that puts things in perspective.

poet123

freebie_junkie wrote: »

Do you have up to date achievement stats for ex-Bolton students? We would be interested to look at them.

I never suggested that I was in any way inferior, I don't think I am.

Nor do I,but that seemed to be what you thought the previous poster was suggesting,which i don't think he was BTW.

The stats were in the Sunday Times guide to Unis which was last published around September time I think.

However as another poster suggests,this may be another thread entirely!!

Oldernotwiser

Janeyjaz wrote: »

She has been advised from school to apply through Extra to a local uni that still has vacancies on an English course - hope they won't feel aggrieved that they were not on her first choice of five, her Dad wants her to apply for a Journalism course and I don't know!
The website is https://www.organised-sound.com and was designed by my 15 year old son - so please don't be too critical, after last week when my youngest had heart surgery and Sarah was completely rejected and the car failed it's MOT and will have to be scrapped - not a good week.
Never mind little one is OK - that puts things in perspective.

In the light of the poor to non existent advice your daughter has had from the school before, could I suggest that she seeks advice from someone who knows what they're talking about before she jumps into the middle of another disaster! Although the Connexions Service has moved away from the role of pure careers advice, she can make an appointment to discuss her situation with one of their advisors. Make sure that she explains that it's specific careers advice that she wants, rather than speaking to a generic Personal Adviser. There are still staff employed by Connexions who have years of experience of this sort of situation and can offer her the expertise she so urgently needs.

FBJ, of course I wasn't suggesting that people who suffer from dyslexia aren't bright! However I do disagree with you regarding the choice of university being unimportant. Particularly for a subject like English, the standards expected in an institution where the majority of students have A grades is going to be far different from one in which students have far lower grades. There are excellent teachers in a variety of institutions but university education is about so much more than the quality of the teaching. Above all, if you plan to enter a competitive area when you leave you have to accept that employers will look on applications from different institutions differently; I wonder how many people on the BBC graduate training programme come from somewhere like Bolton?

(Mature students often have different criteria, convenience of location being the most important of them so that your friends "sat" in the canteen aren't necessarily typical!)