6. UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPT: UNDERGRADUATE RECORD (1983-88)

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 that the parents forced me either out of or away from university on at least four other occasions (1986, 2007, 2014, and 2023).

The transcript attached here is from one of the most prestigious universities in England, and it was also the one that my father attended. I applied there partly out of love and respect for him, but that turned out to be the worst, costliest mistake of my life.

This record also shows that despite my grades (B+ and B, or a solidly respectable if unspectacular 2:1 / 2:2), I took five calendar years / four academic years to get a three-year degree in History (worthless by itself, without a professional postgraduate conversion course), having been forced out of university through parental financial abuse and reputational damage in early 1986.

On top of the unwanted year off, that calculated disruption of my undergraduate education by family in 1986 cost me the funding that I would have used to study and train in the law at 22 - not, as I'm still trying to do, at 60. It also left me seriously underequipped to enter the job market after I finally graduated in 1988.



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