Thanks! This is very helpful - or, informative and terrifying, anyway, but I'm sure those are good things. WAIL
PPE: didn't even occur to me when I made my flip remark, actually! I was trying to think of some clever way to justify my double standards (double schools are half-baked but PPE is fine?) and realised I've just always thought of PPE as a single subject. A UNIFIED WHOLE. ... or maybe I've just never considered doing any of its individual components as a course (not good enough for any of them!) so it doesn't occur to me - whereas, say, having considered both History and Literature separately as full degrees I'm conscious of them as half-courses in the double schools.
PSC scholarships: MFA HAS MY SOUL. Not sure what else I'll apply to. Whoever will take me? I want to have foreign affairs, etc.
Applying to different courses in different universities: well, shit! Is there any way around it? No - Oxford History and Law everything else is my only viable compromise with my parents - History being pansy, impractical, a teenage whim (their view), only the cache of the Oxford name might save me from my choice, whereas to do History in a locally lesser-known university like - Durham - would be two strikes against me and result in my spending my entire life living in a cardboard box, or in the basement. - is the argument. I don't know!!! Don't I have a separate personal statement for UCAS and Oxford? Strategically weight my UCAS application towards Law and my Oxford one for History? ... think of some glorious way to equate the two? ("I am interested in ... logical ... thought processes ... critical thinking ... and the HUMAN ELEMENT! FOUND IN BOTH DISCIPLINES!!!")
People who applied to different subjects at top: got screwed by which universities? The ones at the top???
Your personal statement (and spectacular UCAS application): you are my new hero
PPE: didn't even occur to me when I made my flip remark, actually! I was trying to think of some clever way to justify my double standards (double schools are half-baked but PPE is fine?) and realised I've just always thought of PPE as a single subject. A UNIFIED WHOLE. ... or maybe I've just never considered doing any of its individual components as a course (not good enough for any of them!) so it doesn't occur to me - whereas, say, having considered both History and Literature separately as full degrees I'm conscious of them as half-courses in the double schools.
PSC scholarships: MFA HAS MY SOUL. Not sure what else I'll apply to. Whoever will take me? I want to have foreign affairs, etc.
Applying to different courses in different universities: well, shit! Is there any way around it? No - Oxford History and Law everything else is my only viable compromise with my parents - History being pansy, impractical, a teenage whim (their view), only the cache of the Oxford name might save me from my choice, whereas to do History in a locally lesser-known university like - Durham - would be two strikes against me and result in my spending my entire life living in a cardboard box, or in the basement. - is the argument. I don't know!!! Don't I have a separate personal statement for UCAS and Oxford? Strategically weight my UCAS application towards Law and my Oxford one for History? ... think of some glorious way to equate the two? ("I am interested in ... logical ... thought processes ... critical thinking ... and the HUMAN ELEMENT! FOUND IN BOTH DISCIPLINES!!!")
People who applied to different subjects at top: got screwed by which universities? The ones at the top???
Your personal statement (and spectacular UCAS application): you are my new hero
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