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My parents have always been very liberal with me, and this stretched to education as well; I was even allowed to choose my own primary school (at age 4). Ironically, this has led me to place more importance on education and qualifications than either of them have; it's just something I've always seen as important. Until I was 11 I attended my local primary school, which had a good reputation although it wasn't a private school. I had one best friend but she left when I was 7; after that I just hung around with a group. In my SATs there I got level 4s in Maths and Science and a level 5 in English, narrowly missing out on a level 6 by a few marks. In September 1998 I started at my local high school, which I hated a lot. I hated most of the people, and the way things were done, and the school itself. I spent most of the time day dreaming, and didn't really concentrate in lessons. When I was 14 I did the second lots of SATs and got level 4 in Science (!!), 5 in Maths and 6 or 7 in English (I think, I can't really remember lol). I kind of decided I had to do a hell of a lot more work then, especially in Science, to get decent GCSE grades. I didn't do brilliantly, but when I was 15 I took the GCSE Psychology exams (I'd only been studying the subject for a couple of months) and got a B. The next year, I added another 9 to that: English Literature (A*), English Language (A), History (A), Geography (A), German (A), Science Double Award (AA), Textiles (A) and Maths (B). I also got a Key Skills ICT Level 2 qualification. Since my school didn't have a sixth form, I ended up applying to a sixth form college for 16-18 year olds fairly near my house. At this point my life really turned around, I made a lot of close friends that I had a lot in common with, and I enjoyed doing a few subjects in great depth, rather than trying to cover every single thing as quickly as possible, which is what GCSE/high school had felt like to me, partly because of the huge syllabuses/exam boards my school had chosen. In summer 2004, I got 4 As at AS level in History, Geography, English Language and English Literature. Rather than dropping a subject as most students do, I stupidly decided to carry on all four and add Key Skills ICT Level 3 and Latin to my timetable. Although it means I have a hell of a lot of work to do, especially with 4 essay-writing subjects, I wouldn't have it any other way :) The universities I've applied to are Cambridge, York, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Liverpool. After falling in love with Cambridge at my interview in December 2004, I heard the next month they weren't accepting me, and now I'm torn between the rest...C'est la vie! Back | Forward Advertised |