Year 12s: what help do you need with making uni decisions?

It was the Ucas application deadline for 2024 yesterday. If you’re in year 12, it’s only one year until it’s your turn to submit your application!

While it’s still early days, you might have already started thinking about your options. If you're planning on applying to university next year, have you already been researching what’s available?

And what information could universities give you now which might help you to narrow down your options?

Pop your questions in here – we’ll share them with universities so they can get cracking on helping you out!

Main thing to do at the moment year 12s (and equivalent in Scotland and NI), is:
a) decide if uni is something that interests you - don't do it because you don't know what else to do
b) decide on a course/courses you'd be interested in
c) decide what's important to you in an institution

Don't just look at rankings

How important is going to a good uni (e.g oxbridge, london, russel)? Is it more important than a good course? I’ve heard that Durham in the top 5 for cs courses but it’s obviously not a really famous uni?

How important is going to a good uni (e.g oxbridge, london, russel)? Is it more important than a good course? e.g I’ve heard that Durham is in the top 5 for cs courses but it’s obviously not a really famous uni? Would you still be as competitive out of uni?

Hi, I want to apply to KCL for BSC psychology andhave attained these GCSE grades: 998776666.My predicted grades are: AAA*I got a 6 in GCSE maths which is what they require,however, I feel as though I may be disadvantagedcompared to someone who got 7/8/9I would appreciate any advice and thiughts onwhether it will affect my application.Thank you 🙂