Busy few days ahead ...
Last Thursday Keir received his A level results. They were good and what his university of choice wanted but ...
That university was unwilling to formally offer him a place immediately !!! We have no idea why, and when he phoned to ask about it he was told they would phone him back on the Friday with a decision about whether to offer him a place or not.
So, after a few sleepless nights worrying about his results he had to wait another day. Not good. By 5.00pm on Friday they still hadn't phoned so he called them ... again. This time they told him he had to wait until Monday.
Waiting over the weekend wasn't much fun because we began to realise that if they couldn't offer him a place then most of the courses available through Clearing would have been taken. By late Monday afternoon he still hadn't heard so he phoned for a third time. This time the tale was: "sorry for the delay, you'll definitely have a decision one way or the other within the next seven days." He began to feel like he was being fobbed off.
What's going on here. Don't they realise that the longer it takes the less options are available at the end. Although Keir was panicking a bit on Thursday and Friday by now he was almost complacent. As if he knew that the longer they left it the more likely he was to be offered a place.
This morning, at about 11.30am, he received that dreaded call. At last. So ... he'll be reading History and Politics at Ulster University from Monday 17 September 2012.
Now there's all the other stuff to organise ...
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