Switching courses with another person?

Anyone, please? I could really do with some advice or feedback.

They'll probably be more likely to take you seriously if you actually find someone who wants to switch. Maybe you could try looking in facebook groups for incoming freshers or something? Even then the departments might not agree, but at least the request will be more realistic.

Have you thought about clearing or a gap year or would you rather stick with your current offer if you can't switch?

No you cannot do this.

If someone were to relinquish their place on the course you desire it is entirely probable that they would have candidates that they would want to accommodate over your good self.

Yeah, they do have other people on the waiting list to transfer, but I'm sure there's also a number of people who want to transfer to the course I'm on at the moment. If someone were to relinquish their place by leaving the uni or something, then of course they would let someone else on before me, but what I'm suggesting is, if there are 10 people who want to go from course A to course B, and 15 people who want to go from B to A, then surely they would consider switching 10 people from each course, providing they meet the conditions of the new courses. I know there will be people from completely different subjects trying to transfer onto that course too, but what I'm saying is the department would only be able to take those people on if enough people want to switch the opposite way, so that they can keep course numbers exactly the same. A switch can only be possible if other people want to do the exact same thing but the other way round.

So surely they would allow me to transfer onto the course if I have someone to switch places with, over someone who does not have a candidate wanting to take their place, as that candidate would increase the numbers on an already full course, whereas I would not...?

No.

that is not the way it works.
you are falsely assuming that an offer is some form of object that can be traded tit for tat.

No, I'm assuming that a course has a certain number of places. They are not denying me because they don't want me on the course, but because all the places are taken. I'm assuming that if some people leave the course, a certain number of places will be freed up, and they might consider allowing other people to take those places. I'm not saying they'll just blindly exchange me with one of their candidates; I just wondered if the other department might consider me, and my department might consider the other person, if I found someone from the course I want to do who wanted to do my course.

ask them then.

OMG I'm having the same problem I have accepted a conditional offer ( low offer ) for accounting and now I want to change my course to something completely different! I phoned up UCAS earlier and they were really helpful. You should phone them for advice but make sure to have good reasons why you want to change course.
They told me that if I declined my offers by 6th July I could apply through Extra, and I should phone the uni's up to ask about the course I now want to apply.
However when I phoned the uni the lady was the same as yours (very impatient, and as if she couldnt care less) and told me there were no spaces.
I wouldn't risk turning down my offers incase I end up with nothing! But apparently its pretty easy to swap courses once your in Uni.

Does anyone know how you would go about changing courses once your in uni and the courses have begun?

Also, are you guaranteed a space in the desired course if you have a good enough reason to drop out of your original course? (By this I mean what if the class is full, is there a slight chance that they would let you in or isit a no can do? )

P.s its a Scottish Uni, so fee's are not an issue

I really doubt you could do this. You just can't "trade" offers, it doesn't work like that. At the present moment, the university probably has a third more student with offers than they can accommodate anyway. If someone decided to drop out of the course before results day, the uni will just see this as a bonus, because it's one less "extra" student they might have to take come September. Unis always over-offer and are terrified that they might actually have to take on these extra students, so if one doesn't want to do the course any more, at the moment they aren't going to take another one in their place (especially since it would mean going through the whole application process again: reading personal statements and UCAS forms, interviewing if necessary).

You might have some luck phoning the university after results day, if it turns out an unexpected number of people failed to achieve their offer or chose to go elsewhere. But at the moment, I doubt it.

I'm not saying I'm expecting to take the place of someone who drops out of uni; I'm wondering whether, once I'm there and have actually found someone from the course who wants to do my course, they might agree to take me on if the only way the other person will leave that course is if I leave my course too. Then, there is no option of having one less on the course, only the same number of people, whether the switch is made or not. I know you can't just trade offers, but surely both courses would rather have a student who is enthusiastic about the course, rather than someone who wants to do something else. .