UCAS offers

UCAS will contact you with details of offers made by universities.

Some university courses will send out offers as soon as applications arrive, others will wait until March/April when they have received all applications. Do not worry if your favourite does not respond quickly.

If a university rejects you, read the reason given but do not lose heart. Many university courses receive thousands of applications for a small number of places.

Read any offers very carefully, making sure you understand exactly what the university requires and which of your A2 exams qualify. [Check to see if General Studies is included or not].

If you are asked to attend an interview, confirm your acceptance of this as soon as possible. You will be allowed time out of school for this [make sure you complete a yellow form].

If you are asked to provide any certificates of qualifications, forward them straight away.  If you have any queries, contact the university in question.

When you have received all of your offers you must decide which to firmly accept and which to accept as your insurance.  If you meet the criteria for your first choice, UCAS will assume that is where you are going. Make sure you are certain on this.

Your insurance choice is a backup of where to study if you fail to meet the criteria of your first choice.  Ideally your insurance choice should require lower grades than your first choice.

Remember that once you have made your choices, this frees up places for other students, so try to respond promptly.

If you have offers from the universities you know you are going to accept and are waiting on offers from one or more of the others, you may withdraw from them in order to speed the process up.