@shiziani again? sighs i suppose it’ll help to revisit the friends i’ve made there and the millions of charitable foundations i’ve jumpstarted there 
@Sajidur4 haha this is kind of a late reply, but I’m waiting on Duke and JHU too! 
@easycadence not to mention the fact that I learnt about 5 almost extinct languages and know the animal and plant species that inhabit the forest like the back of my hand. Also, don’t forget our relentless campaigning to stop deforestation and look for more sustainable energy resources 
@easycadence haha yeah i get what your saying but i also kind of just want this to be over now! Plus all my friends are staying in the UK where unis start in October so I can’t make any summer plans until i know where i’m going :’(
@ibbi1824 Preach! My friends are making arrangements for their accommodation, discussing their firm and insurance offers and I’m just like "I don’t know! breaks down Don’t ask me anything!"hahaah
@shiziani yaaas i feel you! My friends keep asking me if i want to go on a trip or whatever after results day and i was like i have no frickin clue about what’s happening with my life :-S i think i might as well firm Durham so i don’t have to arrange accommodation #:-S
@ibbi1824 I absolutely love Durham! I’m not sure if I want to go to any of the universities I’ve applied to. Maybe it’s because I’m unconsciously comparing them to Harvard and Yale. It sounds bad but I think I’ll take a gap year if I don’t get accepted to re-evaluate where I really want to go. Don’t want to rush in to anything I might regret Are you going to wait for your US decisions first though?
@shiziani Durham is so beauts! yeah i don’t think i will either but my parents want me to firm something up in the UK just in case something happens and I end up needing to stay here. Yes definitely waiting to hear back from the US but i have an offer from UChicago so i’m planning to head State-side anyway! a gap year sounds good though ( also going straight to uni sounds so exhausting! @-) )
@ibbi1824 My parents aren’t that thrilled with my plan for a gap year either. I find putting something down as your firm choice terrifying, it may be because when all of this was explained at my school, the head of sixth form emphasised that it’s a legal contract and the university can demand you pay a year’s worth of fees (something like that) if you withdraw. Scary! If you do choose to go to UChicago, can you still firm Durham? Isn’t there a clash with the whole firm agreement thing?
@shiziani but if you were staying in the UK and you missed your grades and the uni retracted their offer how can they expect you to pay?! our school’s careers dept said that you can withdraw from the entire UCAS system come results day- maybe its the deposit that’s non-refundable?
@ibbi1824 I think he meant if you’ve got the grades and decided not to go. Can you really?
Does anyone know how soon the admissions committee finishes deliberating before the decision release date? I know they must be finished by now, but I am curious.
@shiziani you can definitely pull of out UCAS whenever you want to but i’m not sure how it works with the payment (gotta double check that!) but i’m not planning on firming anything until the UCAS deadline anyway so i’ll just wait and see. maybe our careers dept was talking about putting one down as an insurance not a firm :-?
@shiziani @ibbi1824 basically my life is 0% stressful once i know my decision on the 31st:P here’s how we should all look at it in the meantime: if i get accepted, that’s great! if i get waitlisted, that’s great! if i get rejected, that’s a pre-april fool’s day warm-up!
@ibbi1824 same here, and yeah that’s possible
@Cotopaxide I’m unsure but someone on the Yale decisions thread mentioned that they still deliberate over some of the ‘maybe’ candidates around this time…
@easycadence I like your thinking! I’m super jealous over you 0% stress levels, I have just about 2 months left until my A-Level exams which are literally the key (or so it seems currently) to my future 
@shiziani what exactly are A-level exams? i’ve heard of them but have no idea what they are… speaking of which, why is there so much stress put on students nowadays (not that I’m really qualified to talk of the ‘olden days’ of education by any means)? in any case, g’luck on those!!
@shiziani wow that is crazy, thank you!
@easycadence A level exams = death in the form of 1-2 hour exam papers accompanied by clear plastic pencil cases, calculators with no lids (how the eff am i going to cheat from my calculator lid edexcel?), black ink pens and hand cramps for all students studying essay subjects X_X
@easycadence They’re similar to end of year exams but are standardised across the world. You pick what subjects you want to study and consequently only appear for the exams or in some cases submit coursework for the chosen subjects. You are then given a grade for those exams/coursework. It’s basically a qualification. The stress put on students is getting worse and worse. I mean how much will you be expected to do in order to satisfy all the criteria that are progressively coming into place? And thank you
@Cotopaxide You’re welcome
@ibbi1824 a girl last year had 3 exams in the same morning; psychology, sociology and geography. There’s a rule that you can’t have 6 or more hours of exams in a day and the poor girl was only 15 minutes short! She came out with amazing results though so I’m happy she made it our of the exam hall alive AND successful 