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The new foundation year at Cambs looks wonderful but it's a little jarring that offers will ask for BBB grades or 120 UCAS points. Also, what does "ability to succeed at Cambridge" mean??? Is it code for "ability to thrive in environments with a toxic culture towards work"???
Of course, some awesome young people will and do receive those grades despite incredible disadvantage - & that kind of success is mind blowing!! 
But hardship creates different responses, not all of which transpire into grades (espesh ones that are impressive in themselves)
But hardship creates different responses, not all of which transpire into grades (espesh ones that are impressive in themselves)
During my AS year my mum was unwell, my Dad's addiction was as it worst & I had two jobs. Three Bs, to me, would have been unthinkable!! I didn't go on to A level after getting two U's and a D lol, but a few years later I won competitive funding at Cambridge MPhil and PhD level
- and I won it over people who went here for undergrad. I hate to think that young people today, who find themselves in a similar position to me, may feel they have no chance of getting here in the future because even the disadvantaged programme is a little exclusive :(
