Official: University of Cardiff A100 2024 Entry Applicants

do Cardiff allow resit students with extenuating circumstances? received ABB in my A Levels this year and 2780 B2 in UCAT but have extenuating health circumstances backed by doctors+6th form.

do Cardiff allow resit students with extenuating circumstances? received ABB in my A Levels this year and 2780 B2 in UCAT but have extenuating health circumstances backed by doctors+6th form.

Hi, I have got five 7's a 9 and two 6's, with A level prediction of A*AA and UCAT score of 2310 and Band 3, do you all think I should apply to Cardiff this year or take a year???

Are you a Welsh student?

No

Hi, I have got five 7's a 9 and two 6's, with A level prediction of A*AA and UCAT score of 2310 and Band 3, do you all think I should apply to Cardiff this year or take a year???

No

@Luckluck It's pretty impossible to say without the UCAT tbh, even if Cardiff don't use it to select for interview in the same way as other places. Depending on your UCAT you may have much better options.

Got 2710 B2 and 7 9s, 2 8s and 2 7s is cardiff risky?

Hi I am thinking of Cardiff these are my stats:
8 nines and 1 eight (and an A in greek gcse when they had letter grades) total :27/27 points
UCAT: 2790 B2
A*AA predicted
In my opinion I have quite a good PS that has been checked over by my medicine supervisor at my sixth form and I followed the bullet points on the Cardiff Uni website to structure it
I am not a welsh student but do you think I still have a shot at an interview or is the UCAT too low?
I was looking online at statistics and by the looks of it not many welsh students apply than we think I believe with approximately 30% of applicants having 27/27 gcse points so that should cut loads out

For Cardiff, looks like <8% of English applicants got an offer for 2023 entry - they are all likely to have had 9 x A* equivalents and/or been strongly contextual
6.5% Northern Irish applicants
5% scottish applicants
and 27% of welsh applicants

I would be very surprised if only 30% of Cardiff applicants score 27/27, given they give points for acchieved A levels as well as GCSEs

Every year, for the 10 or so years I have been doing this, people think they have a strong application for Cardiff and every year, multiple people with full academic points who tailored their PS to Cardiff are rejected, even with high UCAT. My guess is that the 3 extra points available to Welsh (and presumably contextual) applicants are just that - extra points. So people are actually scored out of 30, but the most a non-contextual can score is 27 and the cut off has been >27! But Cardiff will not confirm how they score people and past cut offs, so it remains impossible to recommend them unless there are really no other options - and you have other options

Of course, some people get in to Cardiff, but I am not sure any non-Welsh, non-contextual applicants do. They do have a very complex 300 point contextual system, so it is likely people get some points, even if they are not aware of it and this may explain those who are not typically WP who get an interview.

Ok thanks for the advice thank you so much.
I guess I was hoping that there would be a better chance because I love the course so much but I might look at other options😅

hi, im thinking about applying to Cardiff - graduate applicant with 2:1 achieved and cat 2700 b1. also English applicant - is it worth applying? I know achieved degree gives max academic points but is it too much or a risky choice being a non welsh applicant?

any opinion would be appreciated!!