Well, my entire past year of work has basically just been made redundant, and my hopes for the future have been rather spectacularly slapped in the face, ridiculed and shot dead.

I have currently got/am on track to get, if not exceed, the required grades for my chosen universities- Im on track for an A* and 2As, possibly 2A*s and an A (I got a C in my 4th subject but through re-sitting I can bump it up to an A). So, all good right? Wrong.

I've been told that applying...