Oxford Magdalen rejection letter

[Keith Oates]

I think the girl may well regret her actions in the year ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Or basically, we don't much care what you get, you can come. Basically, I argued with the interviewers and wasn't thrown by the whole good cop, bad cop thing they were doing.

I'm sure I read that when Churchill sat the examination to get into Harrow he only put his name at the top of the paper, I seem to recall after some time he underlined it, but that was it - he got in. Similar 'we just want you here' approach.

Not that I'm comparing you to Churchill

 

[User482]

More like 'people around me taking it all too seriously', like watching kids going 'If I don't get into Mauudlin I'll DIiieE!, or whatever...

Well, quite. A few people appear to have lost their sense of humour...

Mrs R refers to Cambridge as "Fenland Poly" too. I point out that she's got a chip on her shoulder because Oxford's easier to get into...

 

[swee'pea99]

Friend of mine was at Cambridge, where one of his friends was, though immensely good-natured and cheerful, profoundly stupid. "I said to him once, 'Charles, no offense but you're not exactly the brightest chap in town - just how did you get into Cambridge?' He said to me, 'It's true, I am as thick as Devon's best clotted, but my father is the sixth richest man in England.' And then he laughed a lot."

 

[Ludwig]

She has a bright future in Poundland

 

[Dayvo]

She has a bright future in Poundland

No doubt she'll enjoy her 15 minutes of fame, first.

 

[Canrider]

I love how there's this undercurrent of 'said something rude about Oxbridge/Didn't got there = complete career suicide'.

Best places to study my field? Probably Birmingham, then Southampton, then York, and Oxford somewhere after that with Cambrige not even on the map.

 

[yello]

I understand that most universities want to hear fart jokes from their applicants.

 

[User169]

My son's been offered a place at Cambridge for Chemical Engineering but he wants to go to either Birmingham (who want higher grades currently) or Nottingham (he's a Notts Forest supporter )

You couldn’t in the end persuade him to go to a cheap(er) place in BE or NL?

 

[Archie_tect]

No, he really wants to go the UK. He's never lived there, but he feels very connected with the UK, and he feels (and, I suppose, is) very "English" - whatever that means. He was very specific about doing the kind of course he wanted (M Eng), and he really wanted to do the thing in English - which is still quite rare for the engineering undergraduate ones on the continent. My daughter will probably go somewhere in NL or BE though.

At least you won't have to pay fees Mort?

 

[Archie_tect]

Definitely worth going to a Scottish University then...

 

[MissTillyFlop]

My son's been offered a place at Cambridge for Chemical Engineering but he wants to go to either Birmingham (who want higher grades currently) or Nottingham (he's a Notts Forest supporter )

Lovely though Nottingham is - it's a bit rough and a bit small....

 

[Dayvo]

Definitely worth going to a Scottish University then...

But there aren't any decent football teams in the 'republic!'

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I know! (I'm from Derbyshire originally). He's also looking at Sheffield, which I'd prefer personally - I did my Master's degree there and I liked it a lot.

Sheffield is lovely. And has a great night life with a lot less knives involved!

 

[rich p]

Sheffield is lovely. And has a great night life with a lot less knives involved!

They used to have loads of cutlery.