All across Her Majesty's United Kingdom today, A-Level students have been recieving the results which will decide on the fate of their education.

Today, I recieved everything I needed to attend the University of Nottingham, and I am quite frankly ecstatic. I even got a distinction in literature, to further boost my ego.




There is no real reason for this post, other than my natural (and some may say arrogant, though that is unintentional) urge to share news of my good fortune. Still, why not?

I'm waiting on my results or perhaps I'm thinking O-levels. Whichever is the lower one.

Don't students in the UK get to go to medical school right out of high school? Lucky :envy:

Yup.

Strange thing about that actually (this comes from my girlfriend's father being a doctor): medical students actually are inducted into their universities earlier than regular students, generally by around a week. It seems that the intention behind it is to insulate them slightly from the general populace of the universities, and also (perhaps) pick up a little of the mystique that helps doctors function.

They go through all the same Fresher's Week excitement as everyone else, but because they do it first, they've done everything the Freshers are doing by the time the Freshers arrive. Sets them apart, somehow.


EDIT: And although we still have to pay for it, we get government-sponsored interest loans which are only repayable (and only start accumulating interest) once you've started earning £15,000 per annum, and it is cheaper than US Colleges (as far as I am aware). The UK's higher rate of taxation pays off in more ways than just the NHS.

True but their 'high school' is in some respects equivalent to our college at least through the sophomore/jr year. I recall there was an associate of mine who came to America from Hong Kong. He spoke perfect English of course, and already had some experience with basic Quantum Mechanics and differential equations from his senior year in high school.

Edit: *doh* Where are my manners. Congratulations Mr Conor.

Yeah but what did you two get on your OWLs?

Congrats!

Not sure how the UK system works (you have the exams in June/July, right?), but I just took my own A-levels at the end of last year and received the results in March or so.. That's happily over now, though, and I somehow managed to pull through fine.

Good luck with university life!

Hmm not sure about that, perhaps it differs according to university. Certainly most of my soon to be medic friends aren't going through that, starting at the same time. Mind you my uni starts about 2-3 weeks later than most, allows me to hit freshers weeks at other unis then jump up to mine

Aye, also the "high school" in Finland is more like pre-University or such - and we can also study medicine/law/whatever straight from high school (lukio). I am thinking of perhaps applying to either English, Philosophy or History (I could also take one as a major and then minor a few others) - but that is a problem of next year and not this one. This lazy bum needs to finish her lukio first.

Congratulations on Nottingham and your distinction (was that an AE level?).

I did my A-levels six years ago now. It all feels very distant.

I have no clue exactly what A-levels and what else they are save for exams, nor their different rankings and what is on them, but congratulations.

Cool. My brother got into N'ham too, taking...I don't know, Chinese and French and I think. Congrats.