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>> No. 6341 Anonymous
13th July 2018
Friday 6:20 pm
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Yesterday I was put on a reserve list for the course I've wanted to do since my late teens/early twenties.

I am willing to do almost anything to get on it. I have emailed all the main contacts I could find within the department, but all three are currently on holiday. I have contacted general admissions who say that it's purely a department specific decision.

I really want this more than anything, and it could set my life on a very different, more positive course.

What can I do to increase my odds? No margin is too small. I am willing to plead and beg if necessary.
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>> No. 6342 Anonymous
13th July 2018
Friday 8:34 pm
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You can always practice on a banana!
>> No. 6343 Anonymous
13th July 2018
Friday 8:34 pm
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>>6341
Nothing.
>> No. 6344 Anonymous
13th July 2018
Friday 8:55 pm
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I don't believe admissions processes have as much agency as you're thinking they do. I would imagine if you meet the course criteria you will make it on to the course. If you're on the reserve list that means that basically there's nothing anyone you have emailed can do, short of kicking someone else off the course to make room for you, and no amount of begging and pleading is going to make that happen for a number of reasons.
>> No. 6345 Anonymous
14th July 2018
Saturday 3:40 pm
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>>6344 So we're back to the murdery knife thread?
>> No. 6346 Anonymous
15th July 2018
Sunday 2:39 am
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>>6344

Not sure it is quite as bleak as you paint, but I mostly agree we live in an age of people being compelled to quantify their decisions so the best candidate is the one who can be most easily justified on paper rather than the one whose personality suits best.

The more public facing the institution the more true the above statement.
>> No. 6347 Anonymous
15th July 2018
Sunday 9:24 am
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>>6346

I just mean that if he's on the reserve list, that means whatever decisions they do make have already been made.
>> No. 6375 Anonymous
5th September 2018
Wednesday 8:06 pm
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To give an update, and for the sake of having double-Bugs, I'll bump to say that unfortunately it looks like I wasn't selected.

It also seems like the university is under no obligation to give me a definitive "yes" or "no", as the programme has already started and the admissions website still says I'm number X on the list.

Strange, but I'll have to live with it and continue applying to other universities ready for next year.

Onward and upward, lads.
>> No. 6376 Anonymous
25th September 2018
Tuesday 11:02 pm
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>>6375

As it turns out, I was offered a place on a very similar programme by the same university. Whether this was down to my persistence, I don't know.

Never give up hope, I guess.
>> No. 6377 Anonymous
26th September 2018
Wednesday 10:27 am
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>>6376

Nice one la. Have fun!

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