Question [Admissions: Do universities have to honour all offers?]

ive got a question, say for example my course at lboro (Acc & Fin) were only accepting 70 places altogether, and say that they give abt 120 or watever people offers for the uni, wat if all of these people all got the requirement grades, what would happen? would they have to reject like 50 people or accept them all, as they are the rules, i am not taking into consideration that people will have lboro as insurances, but what if all these people had lboro as firms.

or do the unis just offer like 80 - 90 people the course.

just a question i was puzzled over

thanks

Reply 1

Shelbycakes

if you make the grades they have to take you so if all 120 took the course they'd have to take all 120

Reply 2

~*Sweetness*~

I was wondering the same thing actually. I'm thinking that they would either have to accept you all as your offer is a form of contract and they are not allowed to break it, or they just don't hand out many more offers than there are places. I'm not sure though, sorry.

Reply 3

themesong

They would have to accept them, but they would get fined by the government for accepting over their limit.

They get fined if they don't get enough on a course or too many- they can't win!!!!!!!

Reply 4

kitsune

mmm but... hoy many offers to universities gives (that are accepted as firm)... i thought maybe 5-10more than the max number that can go in?

Reply 5

oneeyedandgreen

they give lots more. at brighton and sussex med school and bristol(i think) they oversubscribed by lots last year because so many people got their grades. they both had to cut back on offers the following years

Reply 6

Aplin

What happens is that the UNi is forced to make two classes (Just read) or share more students across one class. Either way the uni or students suffer. Either have to pay another teacher, or the students get less communication on 1-1 with teacher. So government gets mad and fine them... :smile:

Reply 7

Juno

They would try and persuade everyone to defer/change course, but if no one wants to they'd have to accept them all.

Reply 8

Fluffy

themesong

They would have to accept them, but they would get fined by the government for accepting over their limit.

They get fined if they don't get enough on a course or too many- they can't win!!!!!!!

They wouldn't get fined as such - they just wouldn't receive and subsidy for the extra students and would have to fund them themselves.

When this does happen, you tend to find that the end of year exams are very harsh - they need to decrease the year to reduce the excess expenditure...

Reply 9

Fluffy

kitsune

mmm but... hoy many offers to universities gives (that are accepted as firm)... i thought maybe 5-10more than the max number that can go in?

Highly competative courses tend to over offer by as much as a third (i.e. medicine, law at red bricks, OxBridge) - simply because not everyone gets their grades and they need to start the year with the right number of peeps

Reply 10

kitsune

I applied through UCAS extra in April and got the offer un June... hopefully Civil Engineering is NOT that oversubcribed... and I know a guy in my class who also got an offer but he's not going! But I think he has not tell the university!!! :frown: