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David T
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Got some wonderful news today - my letter from Cambridge came and they've given me an offer to study Computer Science at Christ's College!

They gave me two E grades as an offer - a matriculation offer - which means they give you the lowest possible to take the pressure off.

Since a grade A at AS level is equivalent to E at A level, I've got the grades already.

And to top it off I found a wii on sale in Game today and bought it. Best. Day. Ever.

ps - sorry for disappearing off the forums recently. Uni stuff and exams are taking their toll!

pps - anybody else heard?

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Chuffin hell! Well done! Its DAMN hard to get into that place... Question - why didn't they just offer you an unconditional place rather than conditional on the ground you pretty much fail everything?!

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wow thats cool i really wanna try out a wii sometime.

What do you mean in your pps. anybody else heard?

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Congrats

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Damn missed the line about the Wii!! DAMN YOU!! I look in both Game's at Bluewater (Plus any other gaming shops) and they're all sold out...

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Congrats matey, that is certainly good news, that certainly look great one your CV, just remember to pay me a visit next time you're in Cambridge, so I can steal your ID and insist that I'm David T I hope Cambridge cuts out to be as good as it is rated for you.

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Quote: "why didn't they just offer you an unconditional place rather than conditional on the ground you pretty much fail everything?!
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It's their way of saying "We don't give a stuff about A levels, which any idiot can get. We award places on the basis of your interview, your references, and our own entrance exams."

Congrats David!

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2007 17:52
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But they could have still said that with the word unconditional

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I believe congratulations are in order...

Congratulations David T,




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Congratulations on getting the place, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy your time at a top notch University

Luckily, I'm two years away from University hell, but my sister has been offered a conditional offer at Leicester Uni. for a Medicine course, which is also good


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Quote: "Chuffin hell! Well done! Its DAMN hard to get into that place... Question - why didn't they just offer you an unconditional place rather than conditional on the ground you pretty much fail everything?!"


EE is pretty much unconditional - officially to go to university you need two passes (EE) I think - they gave the lowest they could.

Quote: "Damn missed the line about the Wii!! DAMN YOU!! I look in both Game's at Bluewater (Plus any other gaming shops) and they're all sold out..."


They had THREE in Wrexham and I was third in the queue. Came quite close to missing out.

Quote: "Congrats matey, that is certainly good news, that certainly look great one your CV, just remember to pay me a visit next time you're in Cambridge"


Yeah will do! We must meet some time.

Quote: "What do you mean in your pps. anybody else heard?"


Sorry it's ucas-lingo Has anybody else on here heard from university.

Quote: "Luckily, I'm two years away from University hell, but my sister has been offered a conditional offer at Leicester Uni. for a Medicine course, which is also good "


Say well done to her from me - medicine is a hard course to get into!


Thanks very much to all who replied with congrats.

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congrats man

at first i thought this was gonna be another one of those topics with the letters all jumbled up but you can still read the sentence.

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Congratulations!

I got my rejection letter from Homerton College, Cambridge today - which is a bummer - but I did get an AAB offer from Grey College, Durham which was my #1 realistic choice after Cambridge.

(And, a EE offer - what did you do, sleep with your interviewer? )

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Quote: "Luckily, I'm two years away from University hell,"


Hell? University is meant to be the greatest thing to happen in most people's lives, sure you get a load of responsibility and work, but there's a whole experience behind it and I can't wait until September when I go off to uni.

Quote: "I got my rejection letter from Homerton College, Cambridge today - which is a bummer "


Cambridge is difficult to get into, I got my hopes up for doing my A levels at Long Road, so the rejection letter came as a shock. (Because it sounded perfect, with all the extra curricular activities, such as learning Japanese)

So far I've got two conditional offers for uni, my currently number 2 choice, Derby and Gloucester. Winchester are processing my application and Anglia Ruskin Cambridge (my number 1 choice currently, may change after open days) want me to send marked work to them, which I've stuck onto my iPod to print off tomorrow, give to my teacher, get it marked, scan then send it ASAP.

Quote: "but my sister has been offered a conditional offer at Leicester Uni."


I went to one of the open days with my school, its a nice place, some reason my and my friends went up the elevator of the top building to run down the stairs. After listening to a couple of talks, we grab lunch in the city and walked to the De Monfort university from there, which I was going to apply for, but didn't in the end.

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Quote: "Hell? University is meant to be the greatest thing to happen in most people's lives, sure you get a load of responsibility and work, but there's a whole experience behind it and I can't wait until September when I go off to uni."


I meant that in regards to University applications rather than University itself


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Ah I see, my mistake, it can be a pain, but get it out of the way quickly and you're sorted and laughing at the other dudes who are panicking. But the downside of that comes 'Will you read my personal statement?', 'Can you help me with this?', 'what did you do here?'.

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Congrats, Oxford and Cambridge didn't hold enough advantages for me to go to the extra effort required to apply there since at Edinburgh i can do the joint physics and computer science degree i wanted, don't have to pay tuition fees (yay for Scottish education system) and edinburgh score highest in the uk unless i'm mistaken for their informatics (computing) department, and very well for physics (not to mention it's near enough my home if i run into problems). Edinburgh is very theoretical compared to lots of places too i think, i've only just finished my first semester though so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.
Just remember not to slack off the rest of this year
Do Cambridge use linux a lot? Edinburgh is almost entirely linux based so you might want to find out because being familiar with their systems is a great advantage.

well best of luck to you with you're A levels and coming years at uni.

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Good work, David

Uni will be the best time of your life (provided you stay on top of the work, which I'm no doubt sure you will!)

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I got in too, for Maths at Jesus. Unfortunately they don't give EE offers because the course is farcically competitive (seriously, not even for Olympiad medalists!).

I already got 4 As and passed STEP, but I have to retake STEP in the summer to prove I haven't forgotten everything.

That's as much as I could have hoped for, really, because they *really* don't like Mathematician's having gap years - you can't actually get a deferred place for Maths, just have to apply a year late.

Anyway, congrats on getting two Es I didn't even think they did that anymore.

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Quote: "I got in too, for Maths at Jesus. Unfortunately they don't give EE offers because the course is farcically competitive (seriously, not even for Olympiad medalists!)."


Fantastic, perhaps you could join me and Seppuku for a little Cambridgshire TGC meet up

So are you an Olympiad medallist then? If so that's crazy good - I always do badly at those.

Quote: "I got my rejection letter from Homerton College, Cambridge today - which is a bummer - but I did get an AAB offer from Grey College, Durham which was my #1 realistic choice after Cambridge."


Unlucky - it's a very fine line between acceptance and rejection, unfortunately loads of good candidates do get rejected. My best friend did for Maths at Christ's and he deserved to get in more than anybody.


Quote: "(And, a EE offer - what did you do, sleep with your interviewer? )"


Fortunately not!

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Quote: "perhaps you could join me and Seppuku for a little Cambridgshire TGC meet up"


That's if I get into Ruskin, or if I think it is still better than Derby after the open days, but as I live in Cambridgeshire, a meet up would be possible either way, it costs very little to get a bus to the city.

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Quote: "I got in too, for Maths at Jesus."


Out of context, that phrase sounds quite strange/hilarious


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lmao

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Nope I'm not an Olympiad medalist... I never really liked them or did well in the,, which is why I didn't go for Trinity (they run it). I did OK in them, got past the first few rounds, to the first acutal Olympiad paper, rather than Maths Challenge or Kangaroo or whatever, but I never went to the actual international event.

But my brother is at Trinity (not doing Maths) and there are two Olympiad gold medalists and one silver medalist in his year alone. Trinity College has won more Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals than France. It's a joke.

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Quote: "Nope I'm not an Olympiad medalist... I never really liked them or did well in the,, which is why I didn't go for Trinity (they run it). I did OK in them, got past the first few rounds, to the first acutal Olympiad paper, rather than Maths Challenge or Kangaroo or whatever, but I never went to the actual international event."


I always do really badly in those Maths Challenges. Well, by badly I mean get a gold and didn't qualify for next round. There's something about them that doesn't agree with me!

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Okay, so you guy's have Jesus, Christ's, and Trinity schools? And I thought we had interesting school names here (Colleen and Gordie Howe Secondary for one).

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Congrats BigD!!! (just typed this message on my wii...... im such a geek!)

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Quote: "Congrats BigD!!! (just typed this message on my wii...... im such a geek!)"


Oooh, you have opera for it? I'm yet to download that...
Quote: "Okay, so you guy's have Jesus, Christ's, and Trinity schools? And I thought we had interesting school names here (Colleen and Gordie Howe Secondary for one)."


There are weirder college names at Cambridge. A college is basically where you live, work, sleep, eat, play and socialise (not exclusively, just like a 'base' for you). Then you attend lectures organised by the university.

there is Gonville and Caius, Homerton, Lucy Cavendish, Pembroke, Peterhouse, Trinity, Corpus Christi, Magdelene, Fitzwilliam, Churchill, Robinson to name but a few. Some of them date back to the 1400's hence the odd names.

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Jesus isn't the *actual* name for the college either. The actual name is about ten words long and in Latin.

Also, Gonville and Caius is always just referred to as Caius, pronounced "Keys". Magdelene is pronounced "Mord-lin".

Forgot to say I would be up for the meet. I was also going to try and start a lil game making society if there isn't one already (which there probably is). It is such an awesome oppurtunity to work in a team when you can actually work in the same room!

That's when I'm going to get a 360 and XNA, and release this generation's (as in, human generation) Elite.

Elite was made by two Cambridge undergraduates if you didn't know.

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2 Es to get into cambridge? wow, you must have really impressed them! that's unheard of!

well done!

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Quote: "Magdelene is pronounced "Mord-lin"."


Wha--- serious? I would be the only geek there going "magdilin".

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It is actually pronounced "Maudlyn" in the sense of the college, but "măg'də-lən" in the sense of the true name (so Jeku you were right)

EDIT:

Full story: There are two colleges, one pronounced "Maud-leyn" + spelt as Magdalene, and the other spelt Magdalen, but pronounced the same. They are both designed to differentiate from each other - they were originally called Magdalene as in the "măg'də-lən" sense. Then Lord Audley injected his own name into one college (Cambridge one - and got Maudleyn) to differentiate it from the sister college of the original same name. Then the other college changed the pronunciation (but not spelling) of their name, to further differentiate each other. There is no real reason for either of these things; the former is more vanity than anything, and the latter has no conceivable reason at all.

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Oxford one is spelt Magdalen, and the Cambridge one is 'Magdalene' (to differentiate once again, with the advent of post). The pronunciation is still 'Maud-leyn' for each. `Tis very confusing


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congratulations! man, im still along way from going to university yet but cambridge is ment to be really good from its ratings from when i lived in england, looky me i now live neer aarhus in denmark and aarhus is ratted the best place for computer studis in scsndinavia (if thats how you spell it). getting a wii almost seemed inposible, i was gonna get one for some one on christmas but no were had them.


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The rule I awlays went by was that Oxford's has the funny pronunciation (Maud-lyn) and Cambridge's was Mag-dell-ene. I may not be right though, but I've only heard Cambridge's referred to as mag-dell-ene. I've havent been there though, or met anybody who goes there, so I'm probably not in a position to comment!

Quote: "Forgot to say I would be up for the meet. I was also going to try and start a lil game making society if there isn't one already (which there probably is). It is such an awesome oppurtunity to work in a team when you can actually work in the same room!"


Brilliant, that's 3 of so far I think. We could meet in a room in the William Gates building.

Chris are you on a 3 or 4 year degree?

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Three at the mo... you can do an extra year at the end if you want I think...

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If there's going to be a meet up at Cambridge when we all start uni, I think we should record each other's email addresses, if I go to Derby, a meet up will only be possible on a weekend for me, assuming I come home instead of living at Derby completely. (But even then there's something to work out)

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Awesome, man. Very impressed. Many kudos, and enjoy the high life!
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