UCAS deadline day - are you happy with your uni choices?

I'll await PQ's definitive answer, but I suspect that they can certainly change within 7 days - no reason why not there - but it will count as after the deadline if it's after 6pm today. However, I'm pretty sure it's within the discretion of the unis themselves as to whether they will be strict about it.

Bottom line is to think extremely carefully about your choices and if you are likely to change your mind within 7 days, chances are you haven't thought hard enough.

Well I rang up a guy at UCAS an hour ago to ask if I could change a choice, and he said it was fine if within the next 7 days, so I assume it's fine. He did not answer your question specifically though.
Im gonna try change mine in the next few hours before the deadline to be safe.

I'll await PQ's definitive answer, but I suspect that they can certainly change within 7 days - no reason why not there - but it will count as after the deadline if it's after 6pm today. However, I'm pretty sure it's within the discretion of the unis themselves as to whether they will be strict about it.

Bottom line is to think extremely carefully about your choices and if you are likely to change your mind within 7 days, chances are you haven't thought hard enough.

I'm really happy with mine. I got 5 offers for History from Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, York and Keele. Sometimes I wonder if I should have switched Sheffield with Leeds, but I still really like Sheffield, and it doesn't matter anyway as I'm pretty certain I want to put Birmingham as my firm and Keele as my insurance.

I should have put in Unis with lower grades I think.

Annoying as my Uni I wanted as my Insurance (ABB-BBB) instead gave me an offer for AAA, higher than the other 2 I've gotten back so far

Hi y'all

The UCAS deadline is 6pm this evening.

For those of you already receiving offers and for those of making your application today are you happy with your original choices?

Are the offers what you were expecting?

Any rejections that you weren't anticipating?

Here's some helpful advice about what you can do next - just in case

Best of luck everyone

How to make your firm and insurance choices

What to do if you've missed the UCAS January deadline

UCAS Extra

Not 100% happy with my original choices. I think I should have worried less about the cost of living in London.
I didn't quite expect my offer from Cambridge. Unsurprised by Liverpool and Surrey.
My rejection from Durham came out of the blue. I felt almost certain that Cambridge would reject me and Durham felt like my realistic top choice .
I'm still awaiting news from Exeter. Considering I applied around the first of Oct, it's a while..

Well done again on your Cambridge offer again Fingers crossed Exeter get in touch soon, would you like them to be your insurance choice?

Thanks . I hope so too though in truth, I feel like it'll be Surrey. I like the idea of being close to London and there are things I like about the uni.

The plan is to wait and see if I get an offer from Exeter and then visit it as I've not yet had the chance.

Only really had my heart set on a couple of unis (offer from one, waiting on the other) whilst the other three were there as a 'I might as well' filler. So I don't regret any choices.

Congrats on your offers

I did History at Birmingham - I loved it Great uni and an awesome city

Thank you! Everyone I've spoken who studied History at Birmingham has told me how great it was, so I'm really excited to go, providing I get the grades.

Been offered unconditional for Sheffield woo!


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Thanks!

It was actually more American unis I expected, because it's well known in the States that the ones I applied to consider a lot more than academics, which I think we emphasise more in the UK. Here's an excerpt from MIT's website on things considered for admission - I'm sure there'd be a different weighting to some of these in the UK!:

Level of applicants interest: not considered. Oh merica.