School Reports - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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but I'm pretty sure I've got some shit from my year of military service. If that counts haha..
i've got plenty of shit too, not the mention the amount of charges i've got. but usually they do put in a good word as it sort of helps your subsequent job..
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Things were so different back in the day… At my school, if you ditched a few times the whole school would be on your ass and you'd be suspended, then expelled
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I went to a boarding school, and in my final year we all had to submit UCCA forms to apply for university. The house master wrote our references, which were confidential. However, one night a couple of my peers sneaked into his study and looked through the paperwork of what he'd written.
I was later told that mine read something along the lines of:
Graeme isn't very bright, but he works hard and gets good results.
Bearing in mind that I was putting an application into Oxford, this isn't actually what you want to have written about you. Then again, he'd already been very keen to put me off going there (apparently I wasn't articulate enough to fit in), and also off a legal career (my father was angry for a long time about the personal attack that he launched on me at a parents' evening about my plans).
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Better late than never. My personal statement aged 13.
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Nice to see that your musical tastes have evolved since you wrote that.
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There are more gems in that report, including the bit where I claim that I found it hard to revise for an exam because I can't retain facts which don't interest me
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Not everybody was/is/or will be a great student! I was once at an event at my school and Kevin Plank, CEO and founder of Under Armour, said that the straight A students experience the extreme later in life. A child that has received A's all the way up to college cannot handle failure in the real world. They have never experienced and it take them a very long time to recover.
How do you guys feel about this? Do you think your success is solely based on passion, hard work, something else? Post whatever comes to mind. I just want to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
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That's ridiculous. First, it falsely assumes that the student with As gets the grades without effort. Second, it falsely assumes that A students never face failure or setbacks in any other aspect of their lives. Third, that's correlation, not causation. He could just as easily have said that kids who don't get good grades early won't be successful because they didn't learn at an early age how to achieve. "Success" in life, which is an amorphous term at best, is not directly linked to success, or lack thereof, in school.
