Lootman wrote:ursaminortaur wrote:The offers had little to do with how bad the university was but more to do with what your teachers had told the University about you.
I did a Mathematics degree at Manchester (Victoria) University which was quite well respected for mathematics in the early 1980s with an offer of 3 E's at A-level.
Unless my teachers told different things to different universities, which seems unlikely, then that does not explain the vast range of offers many of us received. And generally, the more esteemed the institution, the higher the required grades.
The only other offer I remember was from Southampton ( which although still good for mathematics wasn't considered to be as good as Manchester at the time and was also a much younger institution being founded in the 1950s) who offered a B and 2Cs but that seemed to be their standard offer to everyone.
Since I thought Manchester was better I put that down as my first choice and then had a fairly relaxing time doing my A-Levels without any pressure.
(It would probably also depend upon the person doing the evaluation at the University end as to how impressed they were by what your teachers had said.
I was doing four A-Levels ( pure mathematics, applied mathematics, physics and chemistry) and had applied to Oxford and sat the exam. I had been invited for interview at Oxford colleges but didn't get in but I'm not sure whether the offers were made before or after that.)