University of Leicester A100 2022 Entry

Hello, I read about guaranteed interviews at Leicester and it said top 5 deciles are guaranteed interviews - is this for achieved A level students only? I thought 50% of the application was dependent on UCAT score and the other 50% on GCSEs - are people with predicted A levels at a disadvantage to those with achieved A levels?

Achieved applicants don't have to go through pre-interview scoring, they just have to meet the minimum requirements for A-Levels and UCAT deciles and in turn are guaranteed interviews. Whereas predicted applicants have to be scored and the top x% are invited to interview. I wouldn't say it is as much of a disadvantage as you think because offers are based off of interviews. If you have only predicted grades (I'm assuming you have) calculate your score and see where that would sit you against last year's applicants. If you are above or below the borderline JUST, it is a very risky uni to apply to. If you are firrmyl above it, you are not disadvantaged as the likelihood is, you will be invited to interview. Good Luck

I score 30.5 (UCAT) and 32 (GCSEs), which means I have a total of 62.5 points. I hope that the point threshold doesn't increase by too much for international applicants. Do you know if the 57 point threshold for 2021 entry was the same for both home and international students?

Thank you so much for your reply <3

Hi where did you get the information that 57 was last years cut off score? i am a bit worried as i have a score of exactly 57

Heyyy I think it was on the Leicester 2022 entry student room page so idk how reliable it is

Achieved applicants don't have to go through pre-interview scoring, they just have to meet the minimum requirements for A-Levels and UCAT deciles and in turn are guaranteed interviews. Whereas predicted applicants have to be scored and the top x% are invited to interview. I wouldn't say it is as much of a disadvantage as you think because offers are based off of interviews. If you have only predicted grades (I'm assuming you have) calculate your score and see where that would sit you against last year's applicants. If you are above or below the borderline JUST, it is a very risky uni to apply to. If you are firrmyl above it, you are not disadvantaged as the likelihood is, you will be invited to interview. Good Luck

I do wonder whether Leicester are going to be taken by surprise by the number of achieved grade applicants they get and are going to use this clause from their admissions document to cut numbers down
"Following scoring of academic ability and UCAT, applicants will be ranked within the 5 groups (predicted A-level, achieved A-level, resitting A-level, Graduate and Access), and the highest scoring candidates will be invited to interview. The lowest ranked applicants will not be considered further."

God that is a worry. Do you have any idea of how they are going to then score within those ranking because surely A-Levels should be taken into account when scoring achieved applicants? Good spot with the clause

They then say they will look at the whole application to decide who to shortlist.
I don't like the use of the word "guarantee" if you then put a caveat in, but if they do interview all achieved grades that apply, are they going to reduce numbers for other applicants? Are they going to have a ring fenced number of places post interview? People have called them about this and they just seem to say they are not expecting many achieved grade applicants, but they must be living in a different world to me!

It seems like they have forgotten that there have been grade inflations and that there are far more applicants than places each year. It's like they were trying to make the entire process easier for themselves without thinking about that huge incentive to apply to Leicester. I'm really not sure where to apply to now because as you say predicted or achieved students will suffer. Real shame

Oh noooo... Does that mean even if you have a high score out of 64 (I thought I had a relatively 'safe' score of 62.5) - you're not safe with Leicester? I do wish they'd specify how they gave out interviews

It seems like they have forgotten that there have been grade inflations and that there are far more applicants than places each year. It's like they were trying to make the entire process easier for themselves without thinking about that huge incentive to apply to Leicester. I'm really not sure where to apply to now because as you say predicted or achieved students will suffer. Real shame

It is just that they will not be clear how they are going to deal with what is likely to be a massive influx of "guaranteed" interviews. They should look at the hassle Exeter had last year, with those predicted grades needign A*A*A* and 3040 UCAT for an interview, and then, completely foreseeable, too many people already with the grades for the places they had.

I am sure it is well intentioned, but it is shortsighted and not thought through and they are not putting in plans for what is clearly about to happen (or at least not telling applicants)

PRSOM

What's a PRSOM?

Does Leicester care at all about sjt? I have achieved grades and a ucat score above 5th decile, but band 3 would this put me at any advantage? Thanks