"I missed my offer but they let me in anyway" stories!

yeah but do we want to do your course?

Anyway I think they decided to punish me for my first interview by asking for A* in FM and A in maths when they knew I was predicted an A* in maths and A in further maths.

Lol you probably wouldn't (hence why you aren't doing it), however I will be receiving the best training money can buy, despite the low offer.


(I'm joing the Navy )

The way Cambridge (although maybe you're Oxford as you don't mention STEP? I can't be bothered to scroll back through the thread for pages ) assign a-level grade requirements is mysterious to me - mine don't care if I get A* in German and A, A in maths and further maths as long as I get A*AA

(It's looking like I'm going to have A* in FM and A, A in German and maths anyway, which entertained me )

I emailed the undergrad guy at Kent (even though i'm not doing Law i'm pretty sure this applies to all courses at Kent) they expect a certain amount of students not to reach the grades, in my case 50%, and the remaining students are put in rank order and offered a place accordingly. Don't know if this is good news or bad but yeah! I'm sure you would have done better than you think

I'm Cambridge too! Engineering at Pembroke (hopefully)

At least I don't need STEP. I suppose for mathmos they only really look at your STEP results. My friend had an offer for maths at Emma last year and got A* (maths) A s in further maths , physics and chemistry but she totally flunked her STEP. I think she got 3,3 so she's at Warwick now as she got distinction in AEA.

If you miss your firm offer and say it goes to unsuccessful can you still try phoning up to speak to the admissions. Or if the track hasn't changed yet but you know you've missed the offer can you ring them beforehand and try and persuade them somehow?

I love this idea - how easy do you reckon it would be to pose as a student for 3 years; surely the dedication of fraudulently attending classes would show enough to commitment for admissions people to let me in regardless of my grades?

I need ABB to go to Bath to do Chemistry, do you think they'd let me in if I got BBBBC? (B maths, B chemistry, B Physics, B Economics, C Further Maths)

I know a few people who missed their offers and got lucky in the past for unis like Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham too. But of course, it depends very much on the course as well... at Birmingham, those who were let in despite missing offers applied for courses such as engineering, less so for the ones I was interested in (politics).

My dad's best friend actually did this (bear in mind it was in the 70s and everyone was too high to notice). He lived in Cambridge and dreamed of going to the uni, but illness/apathy meant he didn't have the ability to get in through the normal channels. So he made friends with the students on the history course and started going to their lectures, doing the essays set and so on. After a year or so the tutor cottoned on to the fact that he wasn't a registered student, but after reading some of his essays he decided he could stay on with the agreement that he would have to prove his worth by doing an extra dissertation. By the end of 3 years the history faculty decided to award him a degree. 2 years later he was made a fellow

I've applied to royal holloway! It's my firm though, so if i dont get into royal holloway but i get into my insurance, can i still call royal holloway and try get in there? (without having rejected my insurance at that time?)