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Originally Posted by lancsdave
It was in the Observer last week and Hollins came second. As for Mount Carmel being full of delinquents, it has improved in 2 years  |
It cant have improved that much because I still talk to people who are there and they dont talk about how much it's changed.
I think Mount Carmel has POTENTIAL, but its hardly got the same standards as the likes of St Christophers, and there are some good schools out of the town that i'd never even heard of til I went to college, and the difference in quality is very noticeable, and when you get to uni and you mingle with the richer kids and ones from boarding schools, thats when you notice how dire Mount Carmel is.
Education is what you make of it in all respects, and I didn't really bother putting the effort in as I didn't really expect to do A levels, nevermind a law degree. I wouldn't go back and change anything though. I stand out in the law school because of how I got there, and i'm proud to be a kind of ambassador for alternative means of entering a university
i've been asked to give a tour to prospective students tomorrow because of it, and hopefully they'll enjoy my tour and be more confident about university rather than worry solely on their grades.