Do Universities make more offers than they have vacancies on the course?

It varies. Oxford might be able to get away with over-offering by 5% or 10%, just to cover themselves for the few that die, go elsewhere (they are competing with Harvard, Yale and the Sorbonne, after all) or fail to make the grade, while a typical strong university like Warwick, where many candidates will accept offers elsewhere, might make three offers per place. I guess that the University of the Dartford Tunnel is so strapped for candidates and so near the bottom of the pile that it will need to make an offer to any candidate that looks as if he can find the place, regardless of places available.

It varies. Oxford might be able to get away with over-offering by 5% or 10%, just to cover themselves for the few that die, go elsewhere (they are competing with Harvard, Yale and the Sorbonne, after all) or fail to make the grade, while a typical strong university like Warwick, where many candidates will accept offers elsewhere, might make three offers per place. I guess that the University of the Dartford Tunnel is so strapped for candidates and so near the bottom of the pile that it will need to make an offer to any candidate that looks as if he can find the place, regardless of places available.

It varies! For my course I'm currently on try gave out 100 offers for 35 places. 37 met the conditions so we have a couple extra than normal.
Don't forget that some of those offers will go to students who have the Uni as their 2nd choice too.
I think there are specific rules regarding students who gain AAB? And the Uni won't get charged for extra students who meet those grades. I may have that wrong though.


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ABB was for last years entry. Now they can take as many ABB and higher as they can physically teach.


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I went to an open day at Imperial and they told me that for my course they receive over 1000 applicants. They give offers to around 500 applicants when there are only 140 places!!! How does that work? I assume that most poeple applying to Imperial are really smart at the same time according to these figures around 360 applicants fail to meet the requirements on results day which I can't comprehend as these are Imperial applicants!!!

They are likely to have four other offers as well, so not everyone will take up Imperial's offer.

I wrote that on the assumption that Imperial will be the firm choice for most applicants. The only universities that I see students choosing over Imperial are Oxbridge and LSE and I highly doubt all 360 will have offers from Oxbridge and LSE or do they?

I wrote that on the assumption that Imperial will be the firm choice for most applicants. The only universities that I see students choosing over Imperial are Oxbridge and LSE and I highly doubt all 360 will have offers from Oxbridge and LSE or do they?

Why do you make this assumption? How do you think the final destination figures will fall out between people who receive offers from MIT, Harvard, Imperial and Cambridge?

Not everyone is silly enough to pick universities based on reputation.

If a uni receives 200 applications for 40 places, how many offers will they make?

I wrote that on the assumption that Imperial will be the firm choice for most applicants. The only universities that I see students choosing over Imperial are Oxbridge and LSE and I highly doubt all 360 will have offers from Oxbridge and LSE or do they?

That will vary from uni to uni and course to course. However, they'll normally give out several times as many offers as there are places, so the majority will get an offer.



Don't forget to account for the fact that some will miss their offer on results day.

Furthermore, people do choose other unis over Imperial - I've got a friend who got an offer for physics from Imperial (and UCL), but he decided he'd be happier at Manchester.

The chances of someone applying to both LSE and Imperial are low - LSE specialises in social sciences, whereas Imperial specialises in STEM courses. There are very few subjects that they both teach.

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I forgot to realise that a lot of offers are given to international students who would have most likely have also applied to Oxbridge, LSE and the American Universities. They would probably choose them over Imperial.

I wrote that on the assumption that Imperial will be the firm choice for most applicants. The only universities that I see students choosing over Imperial are Oxbridge and LSE and I highly doubt all 360 will have offers from Oxbridge and LSE or do they?