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Agree with all everyone is saying. And, for your sanity try to keep busy with other things - if she does need help, she'll need you in a good state! Hug.

Thoughts with you. Please let us know what happens. There's always re-sits. Anyway going to a different uni might be a blessing in disguise. ANYWAY she'll probably get the reults she wants and then you'll be regretting all the energy you've spent. Very best wishes.

Thank you all. She has been through so much hurt , was in a loving, happy family, her mother - my lovely daughter- left the family home when the little one was ten, a month later their father was thought to have cancer , five months before the all clear. My daughter had developed a mental illness, became a secret drinker then an alcholic. We live in a small market town where everything is known and my daughter gets highs and lows which sure thing is repeated in school. So my little one wants to get into university , wants to be with her siblings and wants to leave this town. They did call in recently with a suggestion - granny when we have all left here will you move to our university town so we will still be near you ! Gulp.

To all grannies and mothers with children waiting for the results , I wish success for all and thank you all x

I've been reading that if you do not agree with your grade, this year you will be able to download your actual paper to see how it has been marked and appeal like mad - I also waiting but for GCSEs next week. DGD will not get to stay in her school if she fails maths. Trying times.

Much sympathy and having four children who all had a dramatic method of getting into uni all I can say is it'll all sort itself out in the end. I agree with the writers who stress making contact with the uni and possible change of course. My son managed to get in because a new course had just started and they were low on numbers.
As long as there's support and love anything can be achieved.

Aw, I feel for you and your DGD. Only today, though, in the Telegraph, lots of Russell Group unis with places going begging. Having to lower their entry grades. Clearing isn't the place it used to be. Chin up and got fingers crossed for her. Meanwhile have a

Annie - feeling for you. It's hard to care so much and be unable, at this stage, to do other than keep calm and wait. Hoping that by the end of the week we'll be smiling with you. Your GD has understandable reasons to want to go to that particular university.

We are waiting for our gd GCSEs 24th August to be precise. They have been changed this year so we are all tenterhooks hoping she gets a good result.

Shouldn't we be raising our kids and grandkids to admire craftspeople and to value skilled apprenticeships too?

Even in a computerized world we will continue to need craftspeople who work skillfully with their brains, backs, legs, arms and hands.

Can I just add that if she doesn't quite get the grades, it is worth asking her school to contact the uni to let them know her personal background circumstances, as that might help.
(Not sure of all the details, but a cousin's daughter got on her course that way.)

I've got my finger crossed for her, Anniebach. Good luck to your granddaughter, I hope she gets what she wants .

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I wonder what happened, and whether she got the results she wanted.