Can a university accept me if I get AAA instead of an A*AA offer.

If your firm choice accepts you then thats it.

Otherwise you insurance gets a chance. What grades you get isn't important its the universities decision - that might let you in with three Es (highly unlikely).

UCAS doesn't do anything except act as an agent to communicate with both sides. So yes your firm can and might do.

Competition is tough and if you don't make the offer chances are, you won't get accepted.

Reply 2

modini

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Doesn't make sense. You want to go to your insurance if you get AAA but then you say that A*AA gives you a grant.

Reply 3

Cirsium

Original post by modini

Doesn't make sense. You want to go to your insurance if you get AAA but then you say that A*AA gives you a grant.

Maybe OP prefers the insurance choice but the firm university offered a grant if he got A*AA?

Reply 4

Ice_Queen

You can call up and ask to get released from your firm (as it is effectively a binding contract) but I am not sure if that would mean you lose your insurance. I doubt it, so you could try that. Definitely check first!

Reply 5

neverloggedin

OP

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Original post by Cirsium

Maybe OP prefers the insurance choice but the firm university offered a grant if he got A*AA?

Yup that's what I meant. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I prefered to go to the insurance choice (UCL) but my firm (CASS) gives me a grant if I get an A*AA. So if I get AAA, I want to go to my insurance choice, not my firm.

Reply 6

Clickers

If you get AAA and you need A*AA you wont get in.

Reply 7

Clickers

Original post by neverloggedin

Yup that's what I meant. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I prefered to go to the insurance choice (UCL) but my firm (CASS) gives me a grant if I get an A*AA. So if I get AAA, I want to go to my insurance choice, not my firm.

That is the whole point of the system. They give you a requirement to get if you dont get it you wont be in. These seem like top uni they wont even blink an eye. so no need to worry if you get aaa you wont get in to the a*aa choice, or they would have offered you aaa...

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Good bloke

Original post by Ice_Queen

You can call up and ask to get released from your firm (as it is effectively a binding contract) but I am not sure if that would mean you lose your insurance. I doubt it, so you could try that. Definitely check first!

It would, and the OP would end up in clearing.

Original post by sharp910sh

If you get AAA and you need A*AA you wont get in.

This is rubbish. Please don't post if you don't know an answer. As others have said, the OP could certainly have his A*AA offer confirmed if he gets AAA.

Reply 9

Llamageddon

Original post by sharp910sh

If you get AAA and you need A*AA you wont get in.

This isn't in the slightest bit true. Back in the dark ages of 2005 my offer was AAB at UCL (not a particularly low ranked university) and a number of my friends got in with ABB despite their offer being the same as mine. It is however purely at the universities discretion and depends upon how many places they need to fill.

Reply 10

tehforum

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Original post by Llamageddon

This isn't in the slightest bit true. Back in the dark ages of 2005 my offer was AAB at UCL (not a particularly low ranked university) and a number of my friends got in with ABB despite their offer being the same as mine. It is however purely at the universities discretion and depends upon how many places they need to fill.

Back in 2005.

Reply 11

Clickers

Original post by Llamageddon

This isn't in the slightest bit true. Back in the dark ages of 2005 my offer was AAB at UCL (not a particularly low ranked university) and a number of my friends got in with ABB despite their offer being the same as mine. It is however purely at the universities discretion and depends upon how many places they need to fill.

Rubbish, if there is a lot competion which therer would be for an A*AA offer, he wouldnt get in with AAA. Or they would just offer AAA in the first place. Its 2012! they offered A*AA for a reason.

Reply 12

Llamageddon

Original post by tehforum

Back in 2005.

The principle is the same. Universities give more offers than they can take at higher grades than they expect those students to get because they have funding for x students and get royally ****ed over sideways financially if they get x+y students.

Reply 13

Good bloke

Original post by tehforum

Back in 2005.

And still relevant now.

Original post by sharp910sh

Rubbish, if there is a lot competion which therer would be for an A*AA offer, he wouldnt get in with AAA. Or they would just offer AAA in the first place. Its 2012! they offered A*AA for a reason.

Universities frequently do allow in candidates who don't attain the requirement, even competitive ones. In this case the requirement is set to give the candidate a grant along with the place. The university may well confirm the offer while not giving the grant.

Reply 14

neverloggedin

OP

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My Firm - A*AA - CASS Actuarial Science. (Not very competitive as most people go to ucl/lse/imperial/oxbridge with those requirements although Actuarial Science is generally regarded as a competitive subject). CASS gives me a grant if I get A*AA (nothing below it)

My Insurance - AAA - UCL Economics & Statistics. (Very Competitive, so an AAB would not get me a place).

Problem is I want to go to CASS ONLY if I can get a grant. Now I get an AAA, and CASS still offer me a place in their A*AA course - will it automatically reject my insurance or will it show up as a message or something as a change so I can accept either UCL or CASS.

Reply 15

StacFace

Original post by tehforum

Back in 2005.

It can still happen now though and it's important the OP understands that so they're not on here complaining on results day that they got AAA and have lost their insurance offer.

Original post by neverloggedin

My Firm - A*AA - CASS Actuarial Science. (Not very competitive as most people go to ucl/lse/imperial/oxbridge with those requirements although Actuarial Science is generally regarded as a competitive subject). CASS gives me a grant if I get A*AA (nothing below it)

My Insurance - AAA - UCL Economics & Statistics. (Very Competitive, so an AAB would not get me a place).

Problem is I want to go to CASS ONLY if I can get a grant. Now I get an AAA, and CASS still offer me a place in their A*AA course - will it automatically reject my insurance or will it show up as a message or something as a change so I can accept either UCL or CASS.

If you got AAA on results day and CASS accepted you it would just show up as them accepting you and you would have lost your UCL offer. It would only come up as a change if CASS offered you a place on an alternative course (e.g. a course with a foundation year or a course similar but not the exact one you have the offer for now) or offered you entry for next year etc, if this happened you could decline the offer and go to UCL instead. It won't come up as a change if they accept you for what you applied for though.

You need to decide if it's worth the risk, as you may end up getting AAA and CASS accepting you which means not only are you not going to your first choice university but you also wouldn't get the grant. If you decide it's not then you could ask CASS to reject you and UCL to become your firm, or you could ask CASS to become your insurance and UCL to become your firm. You'd need to do this before UCAS closes down for results though which they do about a week before. I would suggest trying to swap them as you say CASS isn't very competitive so this may cover you if you end up getting A*AB for example which CASS could accept but UCL may not.

(edited 11 years ago)

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Good bloke