For what reason do universities vary their offers made to applicants?

Did they do the partners scheme at Newcastle? That lowers your offer by one grade for each a level.

Hmm I am not sure if I agree!
If Liverpool gave me an offer of AAB and Warwick gave me an offer of ABB then I am not likely to put Liverpool as my firm

I think in these situations people will know which is the best university for them. I should imagine the greatest fear of somebody applying to university would be missing their Firm offer and or insurance, Firming a university would indicate a university you really wanted to go to regardless of the offer they've made you

That's because you're doing it properly.

A lot of applicants won't pick an insurance with higher grades. In fact, many schools tell students this isn't possible. The "best" result from this is that a student just doesn't pick an insurance, but a lot of the time applicants pick in grade order and then realise they've made the wrong choice.

You're new. Wait and see what this subforum is like over the summer.

As far as I know, departments get as much money from international students as domestic ones - just the entire contribution comes from the international student (i.e. no funding from the UK government).

That's interesting.

Why is it that International Students have a reputation for getting 'easy' offers then? Quota filling?

Hehe yes, I can imagine there would be some silly choices

That's interesting.

Why is it that International Students have a reputation for getting 'easy' offers then? Quota filling?

If you do a search for "firm and insurance", pretty much all the results mention choosing in grade order or say something like I don't know which to choose as all my offers are the same!" Then nearer results day, we get "I only chose X as it was my lowest offer, and now I don't want to go there".

There is a wiki page on [wiki]Firm_and_insurance_choices[/wiki] but a lot of people either don't read it or decide that it's silly to not choose in grade order. Then later they need to read about [wiki]Being_released_from_your_Firm_or_Insurance[/wiki]

Do they?

Pretty sure it's got nothing to do with quotas in any case

I have only got two grades from last years AS because I was in hospital awaiting an operation so i came out with an A in Government and Politics and an A in General studies (these were the only exams I sat) and I didn't get a grade in History or Business for the above reasons....

I've just re-sat last years AS moduals and I was wondering how long you can leave it before you have to make a firm/insurance choice?

Ideally, I'd like to decide my firm/insurance after I get the results from the January exams but that's in March as far as I know; is this too late to hold out choosing a firm/insurance?

Basically I want to know if I am on track to fulfilling a higher offer or a lower one... :/

I know that St. Georges Medical School, whose normal offer is AAAb, can go as low as BBC for those precise reasons.

Why so?
I've seen somebody with an offer of BBB to study law at Newcastle; because they were from an underpriviliged background the grade requirements were reduced by a grade each from AAA to BBB