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[John Price]

"If you don't tell me who did it, in my role as your Ucas referee I will f*** your application up."

 

[John Price]

Now I have to find out what UCAS is lol

 

[John Price]

You all just write an essay to go to college?

Heck that is better than the SAT lol

 

[Siamese Dream]

You all just write an essay to go to college?

Heck that is better than the SAT lol

I assume you are referring to the Personal Statement you have to write that they probably don't even read? It's easy, you just write about why you want to take the major you're applying for and shit, my personal tutor told me to lie and say I'd read a load of books like War and Peace and said don't worry because there was a very slim chance they'd make me go for an interview

Obviously you have to get your A Level grades as well though

 

[Siamese Dream]

Now I have to find out what UCAS is lol

UCAS is just the third-party independent regulatory body that you go through to get into university. They're the middle man

It exists to make sure shit like the US college admissions scandal doesn't happen, where rich people just bribe their way in.

 

[Siamese Dream]

You apply for 5 schools with your personal statement and your referees tell them what your "predicted grades" are for your A levels and then each school will usually give you a "conditional offer" where they state which grades they want you to get in your finals. For example the University of Reading gave me a conditional offer of either AAC or ABB for three A level subjects. You then accept an offer from one of the five as your "firm" choice and then a backup choice.

Then on the day you get your results in the summer if you meet the terms of the offer (often subject to discretion) then you will get accepted by either your firm or your backup choice, and if you don't you can go through what is called "clearing" where you can be accepted by schools you didn't apply for but have spaces in your chosen major

 

[John Price]

UCAS is just the third-party independent regulatory body that you go through to get into university. They're the middle man

It exists to make sure shit like the US college admissions scandal doesn't happen, where rich people just bribe their way in.

even if that's not the case the SAT is already tilted towards the rich kids who just buy lessons and training courses

Not only do you have to get good grades you have to get a certain grade on a standardized test too.

Do they have AP there. AP is basically college classes in HS. Or "IB"

 

[John Price]

caps keep using the becky lynch theme for power plays lol

 

[Siamese Dream]

even if that's not the case the SAT is already tilted towards the rich kids who just buy lessons and training courses

Not only do you have to get good grades you have to get a certain grade on a standardized test too.

Do they have AP there. AP is basically college classes in HS. Or "IB"

There is something called a "foundation degree" which you can do at that age which is worth 2/3 of a bachelor's degree I think, and then you only have to do 1 year afterwards to get a full honours bachelor degree

 

[Siamese Dream]

I think foundation degree are rare though and only used as a way to fast track to a masters degree for more practical subjects.

The most common route for smart people is to do 3 or 4 A levels between the ages of 16-18 and then go to university. Even for people going to Oxford or Cambridge

 

[Ceremony]

Also @Ceremony



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[Siamese Dream]

Still love that I've got Oxford University Blues on my Elite Prospects hockey profile, not gonna lie

Got to mix with people like some of the grils on the women's team doing their Masters who'd been to Harvard and MIT

Like Mark Zuckerberg or something

 

[John Price]

Is A Level a more advanced course or what

 

[Siamese Dream]

Is A Level a more advanced course or what

At the end of sophomore year of high school you reach the end of standardised education and do your GCSE's which is all the standard school subjects (with some choice of which ones you do) and then after that during what would be junior and senior year you either choose 3 or 4 academic subjects which will be A levels (I did History, Law, Business Studies and Economics) which you can do in a high school if possible or at a local "sixth form college" or you can go to a local college to do a more practical skill like plumbing, enginnering, sports therapy, hairdressing and a range of other stuff that the dumb kids do.

On the Inbetweeners they are doing their A Levels but they have stayed in their high school to do it instead of going to a college

My high school didn't have A Levels, you had to leave after sophomore year and go to college. So I did my A levels in a college

 

[Siamese Dream]

Back in those days you could just finish education at 16 and get a job, the equivalent to "dropping out" in America I suppose

But now it's compulsory to do something until you are 18, doesn't matter if it's A levels, a dumbass subject in a college or even an apprenticeship which is work officially tied to some form of education

You can't be a NEET (the term 4channers think they coined themselves) until you are 18 these days, back when I was in school you could when you were 16

 

[John Price]

wow

they don't do that in HS here

there's not really a required plan like that

 

[Siamese Dream]

I think it's a better system because it keeps the kids who aren't necessarily academic interested, instead of just being truants and dropping out

Once you're 16 you get to focus on something you actually care about and don't have to bother with pointless things like maths and Shakespeare

 

[Siamese Dream]

And also if you go to a sixth form college they treat you like adults. You get to call teachers by their first name and you can go home or into town when you don't have class.

 

[Siamese Dream]

Will still has to say his name properly and call him Mr. Gilbert because even though they are doing A Levels they are still in a high school.

It's not like that if you do your A Levels at a sixth form college

 

[Siamese Dream]

However it is still legally optional for them to attend which is why Jay and Neil don't get in trouble in the bunking off episode.

This was the law at the time anyway, it's different now

 

[John Price]

And also if you go to a sixth form college they treat you like adults. You get to call teachers by their first name and you can go home or into town when you don't have class.

Thanks Phil

 

[Siamese Dream]

Thanks Phil

Mr Gilbert what are you doing here? You have no jurisdiction?!

 

[Siamese Dream]

If Sutherland has managed to spread his genes it may be a looming disaster for mankind but it is not my mess to clean up

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]