6. UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPT: UNDERGRADUATE RECORD (1983-88) Born in 1964, I did not start university at 18 as desired but in 1983 at 19, having been more or less forced into taking an unplanned, unwanted gap year. I did not receive an offer of a place from any of my first four choices of university, only the fifth and last. Teachers and friends were astounded at this, as was I. Because my A-level grades were so high, understandably I did not want to accept my Hobson's choice of a place. In the following academic year (1982-83), I was living in France and did not tell my parents which universities I was applying to. I received offers from all three. Though I did not even suspect this at the time, for 11 years now I have resolutely believed that parental interference with my applications to universities in 1982 is far and away the likeliest explanation for my receiving no offer from any of my first four choices of university back then. I base this judgment on the now-provable truth...
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