Are Uni's more/less lenient with courses with lower entry requirements?

So for competitive courses grades vary from A*A*A all the way down to say AAB or ABB depending on the Uni for most courses. Leniency depends on say, if the course has any spaces or whether you're 1 grade below your offer right?So what about for Courses with lower requirements, specifically speaking foundation years?I want to do an engineering foundation year at Nottingham which requires BBC but after doing some of my exams I think I've thrown that away and the best I can achieve now is BCC.Do Uni's tend to be lenient more often with lower requirement courses, or is it the opposite/unchanged?Problem is, this is my insurance. Do Uni's ever give leniency to people who put them as their insurance?

So for competitive courses grades vary from A*A*A all the way down to say AAB or ABB depending on the Uni for most courses. Leniency depends on say, if the course has any spaces or whether you're 1 grade below your offer right?So what about for Courses with lower requirements, specifically speaking foundation years?I want to do an engineering foundation year at Nottingham which requires BBC but after doing some of my exams I think I've thrown that away and the best I can achieve now is BCC.Do Uni's tend to be lenient more often with lower requirement courses, or is it the opposite/unchanged?Problem is, this is my insurance. Do Uni's ever give leniency to people who put them as their insurance?

Foundation courses are generally for people who don't have the grades to get on to the degree programme, so they are a little more lenient, yes.

At the lower universities, there is a lot of leniency for most courses.

Whether or not a university will be lenient will always depend on how many people missed their offer. So, based on that, those with lower entry requirements would have more people meeting their offers.

But they also don't tend to be as competitive or over subscribed like the top courses with direct entry such as English law maths medicine etc


Nottingham is quite prestigious which is what worries me


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It just depends on how many people miss their offer in that year. If a lot of people miss, they are more lenient, if only a handful miss, then they won't be very lenient at all.

It's a waiting game really

Yeah I guess :/

Thing is I looked at clearing and what's already available and my course was on clearing meaning there are currently spaces right?


I hate the waiting game


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So for competitive courses grades vary from A*A*A all the way down to say AAB or ABB depending on the Uni for most courses. Leniency depends on say, if the course has any spaces or whether you're 1 grade below your offer right?So what about for Courses with lower requirements, specifically speaking foundation years?I want to do an engineering foundation year at Nottingham which requires BBC but after doing some of my exams I think I've thrown that away and the best I can achieve now is BCC.Do Uni's tend to be lenient more often with lower requirement courses, or is it the opposite/unchanged?Problem is, this is my insurance. Do Uni's ever give leniency to people who put them as their insurance?