Got unfairly rejected from King's College London due to their error. What to do?

As I said I would have agreed with threeports interpretation and checked. the appeals officer has the power to reverse it. If it was just fee status then have you even been made an offer yet. If you have appealed, then just wait and see.

The University clearly stated "We are able to extend this deadline UNTIL 15th August." How anyone on this thread deciphers it as "it is common sense they met 15th February" is really beyond my human understanding. The University clearly said "UNTIL 15TH AUGUST"! Please endeavor to read before you argue.

It is the university's fault. Their fault alone. They cannot punish you for their mistakes. If I were you, I would lawyer up aka sending them a nicely worded legal email! You cannot punish me for your mistakes. You cannot hold my future hostage because of your mistakes. Appeal!

The University clearly stated "We are able to extend this deadline UNTIL 15th August." How anyone on this thread deciphers it as "it is common sense they met 15th February" is really beyond my human understanding. The University clearly said "UNTIL 15TH AUGUST"! Please endeavor to read before you argue.

It is the university's fault. Their fault alone. They cannot punish you for their mistakes. If I were you, I would lawyer up aka sending them a nicely worded legal email! You cannot punish me for your mistakes. You cannot hold my future hostage because of your mistakes. Appeal!

The University clearly stated "We are able to extend this deadline UNTIL 15th August." How anyone on this thread deciphers it as "it is common sense they met 15th February" is really beyond my human understanding. The University clearly said "UNTIL 15TH AUGUST"! Please endeavor to read before you argue.

It is the university's fault. Their fault alone. They cannot punish you for their mistakes. If I were you, I would lawyer up aka sending them a nicely worded legal email! You cannot punish me for your mistakes. You cannot hold my future hostage because of your mistakes. Appeal!

There's no point in "lawyering up" until the OP has worked through the formal internal appeal process....which they're doing and should have an answer to their first stage appeal (which is judged by the Head of School and is independent of the admissions team) within 20 working days of appealing. If they don't meet their own deadlines (2 weeks to acknowledge receipt of the appeal and further 2 weeks to make a decision) then it escalates to a stage 2 appeal.

On 3rd February Kings college sent me a fee status questionnaire and told me to submit it by one week. I was in Thailand at that time for my mother's treatment so I emailed them asking an extension and they replied back with a deadline of 15th August. On 16th they rejected me stating the reason that I did not complete it within a week I emailed them with the screenshots where they mentioned the deadline 15th August. They replied saying it was their error and they meant 15th February and there is nothing they can do now. Is there any action I can take against this?

To be fair, everyone reading this has the benefit of hindsight. It might be clear now that it was a mistake but just receiving that email, knowing that other universities had given similar deadlines, and most people being normally inclined to trust correspondence from reputable institutions, I don’t know if it’s as commonsense that a mistake was made as all that.

If it had been “55th February” or even “30th February” then yes, that would be an obvious error. But I wouldn’t normally expect someone to write August when they meant February as they are not remotely similar. Therefore in the absence of immediately contradictory information I would assume they meant to write August. But even then, I don’t see how the onus is on OP to notice the error and not the institution sending the email.

Trust me after what they did I have no intention to go there either

Had it been a normal email from a normal person I surely would've understood it but are you seriously telling me that institutions like these shouldn't recheck their emails before sending them to applicants?

Then it would be foolish of you to waste energy, time and resources on pursuing the matter any further. Concentrate on something useful.



I think you must realise by now that any person or institution can make a mistake. In general, the bigger the institution, the bigger the consequences of the mistake. You yourself have made a mistake in assuming it was reasonable that a request for a week's extension could sensibly lead to a six month extension.

could I not have made the mistake to assume too then?

As I said, you did exactly that. It would be compounding the error, though, to waste your resources on pursuing it, given you have decided the university is not up to standard. Just put it behind you and move on.