[IB student uk]

I applied to bristol to do the Mchemistry course, entry in 2005. Bristol was the last uni I had to hear from, and I had received conditional offers from all my other unis.
Eventually I got a letter from UCAS giving me a conditional offer from bristol for entry in 2006 - they had defered my entry!
After being quite confused by this, I eventually received a letter from Bristol themselves apologizing that they were unable to accept me for entry in 2005 due to the fact that I will be under 18 in Sep05 and that they have a no under18 applicant policy. ( I will be 17 and 10 months!)

I find this really weird considering that fact that no other University has had any problems with my age - with bristol being a top university, i don't understand why age should be an issue to them.

Anybody have any ideas or know why they have a no under18 policy?

[dazednconfused]

(Original post by IB student uk)
I applied to bristol to do the Mchemistry course, entry in 2005. Bristol was the last uni I had to hear from, and I had received conditional offers from all my other unis.
Eventually I got a letter from UCAS giving me a conditional offer from bristol for entry in 2006 - they had defered my entry!
After being quite confused by this, I eventually received a letter from Bristol themselves apologizing that they were unable to accept me for entry in 2005 due to the fact that I will be under 18 in Sep05 and that they have a no under18 applicant policy. ( I will be 17 and 10 months!)

I find this really weird considering that fact that no other University has had any problems with my age - with bristol being a top university, i don't understand why age should be an issue to them.

Anybody have any ideas or know why they have a no under18 policy?

All i know is it's a new thing as of this academic year - so bad timing i'm afraid. Someone who's actually there may know more but I remember reading something about them introducing it for the next intake (it didn't apply last year, there's a couple of people in my sister's hall who are 17).

[TKR]

Not entirely sure and don't quote me on this or shout at me if it's wrong but i think it may be something to do with changes they're making to the way they run their accomodation - it's a lot easier for them to run accomodation if they only ever take on over 18s cos otherwise they have to provide loads of other stuff or something like that so they've gone for the easy option because they'v been having a lot of problems with accomodation recently, which the new officer has been trying to sort out.

[eth0]

I was going to apply for Bristol for 2004 too but then, I read their policy and applied for 2005 (got rejected, lol)
It is kinda strange, because a good friend of mine was accepted to Bristol allthough she was 17 in September 2004 (she turned 18 in November)
strange...

[visesh]

I applied for deferred entry last year (to start in 2005) as I would only be 17y9m old at the start of term. One of the universities I applied to (my first choice) explicitly stated that I would be too young to start. I therefore decided to take a year out...

[Muse]

It's a recent university policy change. I haven't got the details about it to hand at the moment but I'll find them out tomorrow.

Admittedly, this hasn't been very well advertised.

[Checking for Spies]

How are you guys able to go at 17 anyway?!