[The-Dream]

I'm in AS year right now and have messed up big time on my exams.

I'm going to work my ass off next year and am already starting though to try my best to turn it around and hopefully get some decent grades at the end of A2.

The problem is that I'll get awful predicted grades. However, I did go to a talk about Mechanical Engineering from a university (I can't remember which one, it was a top one for Mechanical Engineering though and I think their offer was AAB) and they said that they just give students a blanket offer regardless of their predicted grades and if they reach the offer, they're in and if they get their (lower) predicted grades, they're not.

My question is, which universities do and which universities don't give offers based on predicted grades?

Also, if anyone knows much about universities in Holland etc, please do send me a message! Am I right in thinking that they are much more likely to accept you and just kick you out once you're there if you're not good enough?

Thanks!

[0range]

UEL and London Met.

[zoeaw]

I think they all do? Talk to your teachers and make them predict you higher- especially if you think you've performed poorly compared to how well you've been doing this year.

[MeGusta]

Most universities are going to care. I mean, my predicted grades were BBB, even though I got CCC and I applied to a BBB course and the university gave me an offer (BCC) based on my predicted grades, so in that respect, the vast majority of universities WILL look at your predicted grades as competition is high and it's the only real basis universities have on what you are going to achieve.

[charlie9872]

You'll find the more competitive the University, the more it'll matter what you got at AS as they need something to differentiate students when giving out the offers due to a high number of applications. As long as your predictions aren't far off from your AS grades and seem realistic (i.e. can you make a grade higher) you'll be ok. My mate had CCC at AS and got an offer of AAB at cardiff (this is after bumping his grades up significantly in jan though)

[andrew_c]

(Original post by The-Dream)
I'm in AS year right now and have messed up big time on my exams.

I'm going to work my ass off next year and am already starting though to try my best to turn it around and hopefully get some decent grades at the end of A2.

The problem is that I'll get awful predicted grades. However, I did go to a talk about Mechanical Engineering from a university (I can't remember which one, it was a top one for Mechanical Engineering though and I think their offer was AAB) and they said that they just give students a blanket offer regardless of their predicted grades and if they reach the offer, they're in and if they get their (lower) predicted grades, they're not.

My question is, which universities do and which universities don't give offers based on predicted grades?

Also, if anyone knows much about universities in Holland etc, please do send me a message! Am I right in thinking that they are much more likely to accept you and just kick you out once you're there if you're not good enough?

Thanks!

Get a strong personal statement going and get your teachers to give you good predictions. Then work like mad on re-takes.

[T-Toe]

Unless the course has hardly any competition or accept scrapped Es, I would've assumed all do.

[Samus2]

In my experience, you should talk to your teachers.
I got CCC at AS level and got predicted ABB through talking to my teachers.

All universities care, but, your reference and personal statement will play a much bigger role.

[The-Dream]

Thanks guys, I really am ****ed.

[OliviaVW]

It's okay! You get to review the "predicted grades" your teachers have put in when you're filling in your UCAS application with your careers officer or whoever handles the applications at your school

I would however recommend re-sitting the AS papers you think you've screwed up on in January to make it easier for you to meet any offers universities give you.

For mine we could put whatever we wanted (within reason obviously) and I downgraded mine to lower the expectations since mine was way too optimistic on behalf of my teachers as in ridiculously too high. They'd put me down as A*AA and my face dropped. I didn't want to look like an underachiever because I know I won't get those grades, so I changed it to three B's

Also I think whether they care or not about predicted grades depends on both the university, the course, and the quality of your personal statement. Excellent predicted grades + poor personal statement is more likely in my opinion to be less successful than a good personal statement + not so good predicted grades.