Application for Sep 2007

ceewash

My son is hoping to go to uni in Sep. As far as I know he has applied to 6 places and received conditional offers. What happens next? Should he confirm what he intends to accept and is there a deadline for this next stage? Have tried asking him but not received much of an answer. I am assuming college is leading him through the process. Is this other people's experience?

isualive

My sons the same, but he did mutter something along the lines of : Apparently they receive notification from UCAS with all the final offers, and they then choose their 1st and 2nd choices. He has declined 2 offers already. We are going to a meeting at the school toight to discuss the financial side of it all. Dreading it as we are not in a posiston to financially help him out. This can't be done until UCAS contact them. This hasn't happened yet. Petrifed, i hope he gets the marks he needs.

isualive

Please excuse the spelling mistakes. PC doing a scan and everything is running so slowwwwwwwwwwwy............

retepetsir

Yep that is correct. You'll get a letter from UCAS with all your university offers on (or this is also shown online), you then decide on your 1st and 2nd choice of universities, and fill in the form as appropriate. You'll then get confirmation of your final 2 choices. From there you just need to meet/exceed your predicted A-Level grades and hopefully you'll be accepted for your first choice of university!

ceewash

Do you know if there are any deadlines involved for making the 2 final choices? Muttering seems to be a common problem. Pity there isn't an A level in it!

Oldernotwiser

Make sure he realises that his second choice should be a lower offer than his first (much lower if possible and if being cautious). I know this seems obvious but not all teenagers think of this.
Although you can't look at his application, the UCAS website is open access and you can find out a good deal by reading about the procedures there. Students from families on a low income are often in a better financial situation than those whose families are better off because there are grants/bursaries available as well as the Student Loan. Even having him home for holidays without charge is a great help as it means that the grant/loan only has to cover about 40 weeks rather than 52.

devils_nose

He's got till the 6th June to make his decision and reply regarding his firm and insurance choices - after that date UCAS will decline the offers by default, so he's got plenty of time. Don't wait for him to make his decision to move on the finance, you can do that anytime between now and the end of June but it would probably be best to at least start on it sooner as you will want some time to get all the supporting information together

Helix

I got given the 4th May as my deadline for replying to offers. It changes depending on when your final offer comes through. It will tell you in the letter UCAS send or on UCAS track.

Diminutive

As Helix said, the deadline depends on the date of the final offer and the details for replying are usually in the ucas letter of the final offer as well. The choices are made on the ucas track website.

Its also worth noting that insurance doesn't have to be less than firm. Mine was the same, however my insurance did give more flexability as it was just 300 points in any subjects rather than 300 points from specific subjects. Worth keeping in mind

Oldernotwiser

Diminutive wrote: »

As Helix said, the deadline depends on the date of the final offer and the details for replying are usually in the ucas letter of the final offer as well. The choices are made on the ucas track website.

Its also worth noting that insurance doesn't have to be less than firm. Mine was the same, however my insurance did give more flexability as it was just 300 points in any subjects rather than 300 points from specific subjects. Worth keeping in mind

You're absolutely right about the benefits of this; however, I've known teenagers who've tried to put down a second choice that was higher than their first choice (no, I didn't understand the thinking either!).

isualive

ceewash wrote: »

Do you know if there are any deadlines involved for making the 2 final choices? Muttering seems to be a common problem. Pity there isn't an A level in it!

Now my son would have an "A" in muttering for sure. :rotfl: :rotfl:

If anyone can help, i would really appreciate it, both of my sons 1st and 2nd choices have the same amount of entry points. Is that ok? He really only wants to go to the 1st choice though. Will this happen as the other uni is not as good, and further away.