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Why do RHUL have so many clearing places available?!

As a university with quite a good reputation, RHUL appears (on the UCAS website), to still have places available for just about every course. I'm just curious as to why it doesn't seem to be able to fill its quotas? :confused:

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Reply 1

*jaygirl*

Maybe RHUL is picky about who it lets in? Or maybe they want to give a chance to people who don't get in elsewhere?

Reply 2

loggins

Hmm, I find either of those two quite hard to believe.

Reply 3

Madraykin

I looked on the UCAS site and couldn't find anything about clearing places.

Reply 4

WorkHouse

where are the clearing plces listed? TELL ME... i am a woman in despairation

Reply 5

Jet

There wouldnt be any clearing spaces listed yet because we don't know our results yet...

Reply 6

loggins

You can see on the UCAS website which courses were available in extra and are thus going to be available through clearing.

Reply 7

Kew

loggins

Hmm, I find either of those two quite hard to believe.

I find the first one easy to believe - after all, entry requirements are pretty high, eg. History - AAB

Reply 8

loggins

Yeah, that's for history, but lots of the courses seem to have quite low entry standards.

Reply 9

Kew

On the contrary, I've just been having a look, and the vast majority of courses (including joint honours) range from AAB-BBB - which isn't low at all. For some reason some Physics and Geology courses seem to be exceptions to the rule, though.

Reply 10

loggins

Ok, so, say RHUL does have relatively high entry standards. Why can't they fill any of their courses? All of the other top 10-20 universities seem to be able to fill the majority of their courses. (P.s, this isn't an attack on RHUL, I'm genuinely curious as to why such a good university has so many places available. It just doesnt add up! :redface:

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Reply 11

dismal_laundry

Maybe lots of those places offered on Extra are gone now and there will be correspondingly fewer available at the clearing stage.

Reply 12

iffy14

RHUL is a great university (some may say 'the best' – myself included) that people tend to overlook when searching for universities. This is usually due to the fact that most of those looking to go to university place ‘nightlife’ high up on their list of ‘things that are important’ – and apparently RHUL nightlife isn’t something to boast about. But this isn’t really the case as long as you don’t depend on clubs and pubs in order to have a good time. So it’s not one of the most popular universities overall, though (and I’m sure there’s a lot of evidence to back this up) it is one of the most successful. Thus a lot of the spaces on the courses don’t get filled up.

Not sure if that adds up...it's mostly a theory

Btw I should also point out to any of those thinking about coming to RHUL that it is in the top 5 of in terms of student satisfaction.

Reply 13

dismal_laundry

Congratulations on your place iffy.

Reply 14

Né Stig

RH are setting entry requirements too high for certain courses, thus not filling the spaces.
Then we have the majority of universities which have received less applicants this year because of the increase in fees.

You could say RH also loses a few applications to do with night life etc, but this is hypothetical. They know that, so they set their entrance criteria. It has obviously failed this year, so next year they may well decrease their entrance criteria for History.

I would imagine many universities going through clearing this year anyhow.

Reply 15

dismal_laundry

You're right about the fees- UCAS has been reporting for a while now that overall apps are down on last year, while the cohort of kids born in 1988 is bigger than that born in 1987.

Reply 16

Kew

iffy14

apparently RHUL nightlife isn’t something to boast about. But this isn’t really the case as long as you don’t depend on clubs and pubs in order to have a good time.

You're spot on about clubs but wrong about pubs - Egham/Englefield Green has plenty! Also, there's several bars on campus.

Reply 17

Kew

walshie

It has obviously failed this year, so next year they may well decrease their entrance criteria for History.

They haven't - on the UCAS website it says that for entry in 2007, the requirement is still AAB. Ancient History seems to have gone down, though, for some reason.

Reply 18

Hana_1987

yeah but maybe the number of applications this year is less than last year as many people applied for 2005 entry so they didnt have to pay top up fees (e.g. those who may have taken a gap year who didnt know until too late that they could defer their entry and still be under the old fee system).I don't think the increase in fees has really made much of a difference to whether people go to uni or not. It might make people think more carefully about the course they want to do though..or there's more parental input..steering their kids towards the unis with the best scholarships, bursaries etc.

when i first started thinking about unis also, i never knew rhul existed..cant remember how i found out about it..it must have been through a prospectus my school had or on the UoL website! So maybe the fact that many people havent heard of it, as opposed to Kings or UCL, could be a factor? (when i say im going RHUL, people hear "holloway" and automatically think north london..when i correct them they go "never heard of it")

Reply 19

Hana_1987

Also, I thought the history depts was one of the best ones, so why would they lower their entry requirements? Plus maybe those spaces on the UCAS website are for international students?

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