The day arrives

So yesterday was exam results day, probably the most important results day of his life and it turned out to be far more stressful than I'd imagined.

I had thought there were three possible scenarios:

1) Got grades he needed to get into chosen course  firm choice uni

2) Hadn't got grades for firm but had got good enough for insurance so went there

3) Hadn't got good enough for either, hadn't really got a plan for that

Sooo... I woke up at 4 am (having slept ok due to some late nights watching olympics). Other two slept like logs. Made J his favourite breakfast of scrambled eggs. Went to school, suggested we went in with him, didn't go down very well, said he'd text, he did and he'd got very good grades but in order to get into firm choice there was another exam he'd taken and he had to log on to the computer to get the result. He'd refused to do this before we left so we still didn't know if he'd got in. We had a delay while he was in the school photo and getting congratulated then, feeling increasingly nervous (me that is) we headed home, J trying unsuccesfully to log in on phone. 

Got home, logged on, he hadn't passed. Logged on to UCAS, he mistakenly thought firm choice had rejected him but his Maths module marks had been so good I thought 'they can't'. 

"You have to phone them and tell them your marks, they might not actually know them (just the overall grade)."
"I can't".

Finally he agreed and they said they hadn't totally rejected him they were thinking about whether they'd take him and if they hadn't phoned back within 8 hours (!) to call them.

We just hadn't foreseen this possibility.

I tried to get hold of a teacher to ask if they could  put in a good word for him but couldn't so just sat there praying and texting a few people to ask them to pray..

Two hours later he got a call - they couldn't take him on course he'd applied for but could offer him a different course - basically combined maths & computer science and seemed quite keen to have him. They emailed him some information and asked if he could decide as soon as possible. 

As we looked at it we all realised that this course was just him and it will probably suit him better than the other.

So all sorted and turned out all right in the end. Thank You Lord.