13 Mar
2001
13 Mar
'01
7:40 p.m.
Dana wrote:
Emma said (apropos of Avon):
I think he went to St Andrews through clearing.... and thus learnt mistrust and grudges (as an outsider in a strange community), but also how to appear quite posh when he needed. Also the inferiority complex because of the attitude to the clearing contingent. Maybe not though...
What is "clearing"? We don't have that in the U.S. unless we call it something else.
Clearing is (was?) the system whereby applicants who have not got into their choices of university on getting their A-level results are picked up by universities with places to fill.
Una