Article: Why excellent GCSE grades could get you an unconditional offer

I think the worse unis give unconditional offers just to fill up their courses

I think the worse unis give unconditional offers just to fill up their courses

Lancaster, Birmingham, Leicester, Sussex, all make unconditional offers if I recall correctly. And they are arguably not "worse unis".

Do top universities even give unconditional offers?

See my reply above yours

Ohh ok. What about like LSE, UCL Imperial and Warwick?

Definitely not, unless you've already completed your A-levels or equivalent.

Ah ok. Did you hear about Warwick? Apparently they make offers to 85% applicants it was something on them lines.

The offers are rarely unconditional.

Ah ok. Did you hear about Warwick? Apparently they make offers to 85% applicants it was something on them lines.

Yeah I saw that thread but people seem to be overreacting massively about that statistic. Getting the offer (except at Oxbridge) is the easy part, meeting it is a completely different story. And most of Warwick's offers are quite high.

Yea, I got an uncon from Liv (and effectively from Exe).



The offers are rarely unconditional.

Which ones?

People with "excellent" GCSE grades wouldn't care about universities like Birmingham or Liverpool(excluding medicine). They'd be eyeing up Oxbridge and the London universities, not Sussex. It seems like a paradoxical benefit; on one hand you get an unconditional due to excellent GCSEs, but on the other, you could get into a much better uni (for which, unconditional offers aren't given).

Birmingham's a "top" uni? I'd have thought that you would have formulated your post the other way round (B'ham v.good, UCL "top"