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Managing Your parents

7/21/2014

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Ahem.  An embarrassing topic.  Daddy wants you to be a lawyer.  Mummy has always dreamed of you fulfilling her thwarted desires.  Rushing to the gym, having competitive coffee mornings where she drones on and on about your achievements until you wish the ground would open up and swallow either her or you.  You only took History to please your father.  Your much prefer English, but spend all your spare time either playing the guitar or practising spoken Spanish with that lovely boy from Madrid.

Back in your world, you'd like to study music, after maybe a gap year travelling in South America, perfecting your Spanish.  Music and Spanish maybe?  Spanish with Music on the side?  

It can be hard to tell your parents where to get off.  Maybe the whole issue of student funding might help you: remind them that though you are grateful for any support they may be prepared to give you, the tuition fees you are likely to be paying if you are UK resident are taken off your tax bill, not theirs.  It's your life, and your job prospects are much better if you get a first class honours degree in Art or Music because you love the subject, than if you get a 3rd or drop out from Law because you hate every minute of it.  

What's more, some of the best lawyers took a first degree in something completely different anyway.  

We trail round the country going to careers conferences, listening to what employers actually want.  Creativity, design ability, enthusiasm, excellent communication skills are highly prized.  Office drones, the merely mindlessly industrious are not going to cut it any more.   

Do what you love, what you're good at and if you're being berated by anxious parents about 'doing something with good job prospects', point them in the direction of Chapter 3 of our book, How to Get Into University, available free on iTunes.  

And do remember, your parents only want the best for you really.  All kinds of funny things go through parents' heads: they try to live through you; they subconsciously do the same things to you that their parents did to them, even though they always swore not to; they worry about finance and try to protect you from the struggles they have faced, but in the end, it's your life and you have to live it.  Go for it.  
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Get me into Uni the book is now available

4/11/2014

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Yes, it's been longer than anticipated, but finally it is available.  

FREE.  £0.00.  Nothing to pay.  

Everything you need to know to get the university place you want.  Get it on iTunes.  

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Getmeintouni - the Book!

12/17/2012

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Coming soon…

Our interactive book, entitled 'How to get into University - A complete guide to UK university applications, including a personal statement planner and video tutorials' will be available in iBooks in the New Year.  Watch this space for news and previews of the material.  Join our mailing list to get advance notification of publication. 

It will be packed with advice to take you through the whole UCAS process, and quick and easy-to-watch videos to guide you through the labyrinth of UCAS terminology. 

Recommended reading for anyone in Year 11 or 12 (5th Form or 6th Form) who wants to go to uni.  Tell your parents to get it as well - there's plenty of advice for them too!

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Not heard from Oxford YET?

11/29/2012

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Cambridge interview dates have been out for a week or two.  Oxford have sent out some rejections, but are infuriatingly late in telling you when you are wanted for interview.  You may be panicking but the text below is taken from their website - you should hear any day now: 
Have I been shortlisted?Towards the end of November or in early December you will receive an email or a letter indicating whether or not you have been invited for interview. Please note you may not receive this email or letter until a week before the interviews are due to take place. If you have been invited, the letter will include practical details of your interview and further information.

Please note that you will probably be interviewed at the college to which you applied, or the college to which you were allocated, if you made an open application. However, in some cases your application may be referred to another college. This can happen if a college is significantly oversubscribed for your subject that year, and will be made clear in the letter inviting you to interview. In some subjects all candidates will automatically be interviewed at a second college. For other subjects, you may be offered the opportunity to have an interview at a second or even a third college. This does not necessarily mean that you will not be offered a place at the first college.

And here's a link to the timetable again: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/how_to_apply/interviews/interview_timetable.html
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