Have your say: Students want unconditional offers to be regulated, survey reveals

it’s a silly way of universities trying to secure students funding.

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Waiting for the ucas data to drop next week

Do you think the number of unconditionals will have risen or dropped this year

It’s likely to be the beginning of the end. I expect the Times to include the unconditional data in their tables (not in the rankings but as supplemental data)...

I think they should be scrapped entirely, yeah. Keep them only for when a student is applying post - qualification so has already met the conditions.

If a university really likes you, they can give you a reduced a level offer. But people get lulled in by the unconditional aspect and think their a-levels don’t matter and it’s a silly way of universities trying to secure students funding.

I think unconditional offers should be kept - but used how they were first intended to be. I've just finished the whole UCAS application process and only one of my choices gave me that "conditional unconditional" offer bull****. I'm not accepting for a few reasons. The rest of my offers were genuine unconditional offers because I have already met the entry requirements for the courses, and my places were also audition based since I'll be studying a music based degree.

I don't think unconditional offers should be handed out on a plate at all, they were made to give to those who have already or are guaranteed to meet the entry requirements for their chosen course. My boyfriend recently got given an unconditional offer to a university despite having 0 UCAS points (Error in a certain unit means he will have to resit it. This isn't entirely his own fault, however he hasn't actually told any of these schools his individual circumstances.) Although I'm happy he's been given a place to go - it makes no sense.

It seems that universities these days care more about the numbers that they're enrolling more than who they are enrolling. It's very disheartening to students like myself who work hard for such offers to see that students with no A-Levels or equivalent can also get the same opportunities.

The takeaway? Keep unconditional offers. They're amazing and can really boost a student's confidence (and I think even persuade them to keep working, if placed in the right hands of course.) But don't hand them out willy nilly to people who don't have the requirements. I'm a big advocate for giving everyone equal consideration but this does NOT mean the same thing as giving everyone an equal offer. I do think it's very unfair to hand out guaranteed places to people that just don't even come close to meeting the requirements. I think this is why the drop out rate is at an all time high, people who clearly aren't cut out for university are given offers to study - when really they don't belong there in the first place. I whole-heartedly agree when the article claims that most universities no longer give offers within the student's best interest.

I was under the impression unconditional offers a mainly dished out to mature students like me.

As a 30 year old my gcse,A levels and other quals ive accumulated over the time are aready done and there for the world to see . Why would a uni give me a conditional offer? conditional based on what?.

There are legitmate resasons for the unconditinal offer, just because something doesnt apply to the majority doesnt mean it should be banned or regulated any differently to any over type of offer.