[MarsManc]

I was just wondering if the fact I get 'decent' grades at GCSE from a secondary school where I'm one of only 7-8 people able to get a Grade As will help an application to university? I'm confident I've got a few A*s and A's but the fact that I went to school which upon the last Ofsted inspection a few months ago scored 4 in all areas except one area which got a 3 reflect well upon me?
For abit of context, the school has consistently been the worst school in Manchester year on year.

[MarsManc]

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[carnationlilyrose]

Brookway? Anyway, universities receive contextual data automatically with your UCAS application. (I didn't know it was automatic until I went to a careers advisers' conference at a university recently, but it is, apparently.) Most of them will give a bit of leeway to applicants from low achieving schools. How much will vary from institution to institution, but many of them are quite open on their websites about what help they are prepared to give. Birmingham and Leeds, for example, have very extensive Access programmes which you might like to look at. So do many others, but they are ones which are being pushed quite heavily at the moment.

[MarsManc]

Well that's great news! Thanks for informing me and I've looked at a few Universities' entry requirements and related pages but very few have explicitly gave much information. I've looked at some of the access programs and must say like the look of Manchester's MAP. Again, thankyou for helping me out.

[oxymoronic]

(Original post by MarsManc)
Well that's great news! Thanks for informing me and I've looked at a few Universities' entry requirements and related pages but very few have explicitly gave much information. I've looked at some of the access programs and must say like the look of Manchester's MAP. Again, thankyou for helping me out.

Your school might be part of widening access schemes for universities in your local area as universities have to show that they're working with schools in the local area to encourage applications from their students. I'd expect that a lot of the universities in the north west will have local access schemes that you could look into and as has been said, other universities have national schemes to support people who are from challenging schools.

[carnationlilyrose]

(Original post by MarsManc)
Well that's great news! Thanks for informing me and I've looked at a few Universities' entry requirements and related pages but very few have explicitly gave much information. I've looked at some of the access programs and must say like the look of Manchester's MAP. Again, thankyou for helping me out.

You're very welcome.