Reference request from uni (applying afresh after withdrawing) - encouraging sign?

I've just withdrawn from uni after one semester. I've applied through UCAS for a different course at new universities.

One has asked for a reference from my old uni - I guess to check I did turn up and work, and that I wasn't chucked off my course. All good - reference done.

Do you think they woild only ask for a reference if they were ready to make an offer? I'm so impatient to hear!

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Scotland Yard

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Original post by Squidzz

I've just withdrawn from uni after one semester. I've applied through UCAS for a different course at new universities.

One has asked for a reference from my old uni - I guess to check I did turn up and work, and that I wasn't chucked off my course. All good - reference done.

Do you think they woild only ask for a reference if they were ready to make an offer? I'm so impatient to hear!

Well, the fact that they asked you for a reference means that you're still in the running! But they won't have decided yet - I assume you used your old school as a reference, but if you dropped out what the universities really want is a reference provided by the previous university, hence why they asked - they want that info to help them decide.

Don't be discouraged, if they had decided to reject you they wouldn't have bothered, but similarly don't read too much into it.