Hi! I'm the HSPS offer holder and I'll tell you as much as I can about my application to help out with that ask you got :) At GCSE, I got 7A*s and 4As. I go to a state comprehensive school in the North West, and depending on the strength of the yeargroup, typically around 2-3 people get into Cambridge and 2 into Oxford... last year it was one Cambridge, this year it was two etc... At AS Level I studied History, Government and Politics, French and English Lit. In History I got 90% UMS... (1/2)
(2/2).... in Politics I got 100% UMS, in French I got 97% UMS and in English I got 86% UMS including a B in the exam. I dropped English and this year my target grades on my UCAS form were put as A*AA, but in my reference my teacher put A*/A for all of them. As for my interview, I felt good about it at the time; found one of them really hard, but I was expecting that? But as time went on I felt a lot worse about it! I applied for Trinity Hall and got an offer there; A*AA in any order :)
Also about HSPS, it does seem competitive but I think there were only 27 applicants at Trinity Hall, and when you consider that 20% aren't interviewed and they take around 6-8 people, it seems a little more realistic? Hope I helped!_____________________________
merci, always good to hear about peopleās experiences!
