Hello.
Sorry to hear that you have been worrying about results and clearing. Hopefully I can ease your mind a little bit before tomorrow. It is a bit of an essay but I wanted to be as thorough as possible!
When we say “ We will automatically consider existing offer holders for an Alternative Offer if we are unable to confirm your existing offer” what we mean is we go through and check whether students have met their offer and if a student misses their offer we will look to see if we can still offer a place on the same course or a similar course. This will be looked at on a case by case basis and can vary from course to course and year on year dependant on how many places are remaining on the course once we have looked at all the results.
If you are unsuccessful in gaining your place at Exeter you are able to apply for other courses in clearing, either with us or a different institution. All the grade requirements for our courses in clearing will be listed alongside the programmes, so you know what we are looking for. We will be very happy to answer questions that you might have tomorrow on our helpline, but it is worth knowing that this year we will only accept applications through clearing on our online form (
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/clearing/). Depending on what questions you have, and whether or not there are phone queues first thing, it might be worth applying through clearing first. If you have any questions which may impact your decision to apply through clearing then please do speak to us first and we will be very happy to help. If you have any time today and are still worried I would recommend our course webpages (
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/) as a great way to look up other courses that you might consider if they become available through clearing tomorrow morning. It might help take you mind off the wait and there is no harm in having a back-up plan! The phone lines will open at 7am and the clearing form should go live at around this time too.
As for your accommodation query there is university managed accommodation available to students applying through clearing. Accommodation is allocated once students have an offer so I would recommend giving accommodation a call tomorrow when you have a better idea of your situation so that they can help you and advise what you need to do next. If you do go through clearing accommodation cannot allocate a room until they know you definitely have a place but everyone will be working as quickly as they can to make the wait as short as possible.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please get in touch. Good luck for tomorrow!
Melody