Need advice about uni

metalgal

im 22 married with a baby. all my life i had wanted to go to university. So after studying part time with the OU i decided i wanted to go full time for the university experience. i applied and got a conditional offer for my chosen uni. The condition was that i had to obtain 30 more OU points. I started to do 3 10 point courses one finished in April and the other 2 finish in July. However i have since found out that i will not get the results of the course until late september. I contact the Uni and explained this and they said that i had to have my OU results in for 10th September at the latest to get my place otherwise i would have to wait until next year. There is absolutely no flexibility on this. I asked if i could do other courses such a summer school courses and have them counted but they said no. I am so !!!!ed off that i will miss out going to uni over something as stupid as this. It would be easier to accept if i didn't get it because i failed a course or didn't have the the right qualifications.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what i should do? I am unemployed and miserable at the minute. For what i want to do i am looking at 5 years full time study, and me and my husband don't want it to be 6 years before we can even consider having another child.

Indie_Kid

January start?

metalgal

Can't do January start. The only have sept intake. Also live in NI so there is only 2 universities and the other one asks for more to get in.

Pigget

Is there anyway you could speak to the OU about it?

The OU may know the results before the date they release them to students.
Perhaps they could liase with the University before September 10th?

sammylou100

I think Pigget might be right on this one, I did uni after A-levels and by the time I got my results the uni already had the information. I was a few points short but they had already acknowledged that and accepted me by the day i got my results. Definitely worth a call to the OU to check it out.

Good for you on being so determined though. I really hope it works out for you.

Voyager2002

Yes, your OU tutor is the first person to see about this.

Also, see if you can contact the admissions tutor for the course you want to do. University admissions departments are run by administrators and are generally very bureaucratic (and the people who run Ulster University are more bureaucratic than most). However, the decisions are made by academics, who tend to be more reasonable and in some cases have authority to over-ride the bureaucratic rules.

Lokolo

sammylou100 wrote: »

I think Pigget might be right on this one, I did uni after A-levels and by the time I got my results the uni already had the information. I was a few points short but they had already acknowledged that and accepted me by the day i got my results. Definitely worth a call to the OU to check it out.

Good for you on being so determined though. I really hope it works out for you.

I remember good old days of A Level results. All my friends texting when they looked on UCAS at 5am to see if they go in to their unis.

Then went to school at 11am to collect and we didn't much care as we knew we got in!

caroline1973lefty

Lokolo wrote: »

I remember good old days of A Level results. All my friends texting when they looked on UCAS at 5am to see if they go in to their unis.

Then went to school at 11am to collect and we didn't much care as we knew we got in!

call that the old days?

i remember the good old days of a-levels results when no-one had heard of texting or the internet and we all waited by the doorstep for the postman before calling each others landlines. my postman had been on holiday so i had to wait til lunchtime (2nd post...)

wow... and i'm not even THAT old! :rotfl:

SUPERMCNATURAL

hi, i can understand ur frustration, ive been there myself. i had always said that i didnt want to go to uni so went and worked abroad for a while when i came back uni was about to start and i hadnt even applied ,and changed my mind, i got stone walled by every uni sayin it would be too late id have to wait a year......anyway i found out that the person i had spoken to (at the uni im at just now) wasnt the undergrad admissions officer, i phoned back and asked to have a meeting with him face to face, when i spoke to him he said no problems and gave me a place......... i think the point im tryin to make is dnt accept no for an answer.... find out who ur speaking to and make sure you speak to the admissions officer (sometimes it might be office staff on a power trip :rotfl: ). i say go to the uni and make sure you see the right person dont back down ....... go for it !!!! lol

p.s i also have a friend that camped outside the deans door untill he was willing to see him, he also got a place doin that (although i dnt know if id reccomend that he was lucky not be removed from the premises lol)