Required Grades

I've been looking at course modules and what they involve, and I really like the look of a course that requires BBB, but I'm pretty sure I might be able to beat that (However, I'm doing AS at the moment), so I was just wondering if getting higher than required grades might make it more likely that I get a place (especially since I have no extra curricular activities).

Thanks for replying, and the info Pencil Queen

I've been looking at course modules and what they involve, and I really like the look of a course that requires BBB, but I'm pretty sure I might be able to beat that (However, I'm doing AS at the moment), so I was just wondering if getting higher than required grades might make it more likely that I get a place (especially since I have no extra curricular activities).

Thanks for replying, and the info Pencil Queen

Yeah, I think it will help a lot. You're more likely to be given a place if you have higher grades than most people who have applied. It also means the offer you're given is likely to be higher though!

In the prospectus (and in the big UCAS book) universities will publish a "typical" offer - a kind of guideline to make sure they don't get people wasting their application by applying for a course which they would never get the grades for.

However each individual person when they actually apply will be made an individual offer which will take into account their predicted grades and also the level of the other people actually applying at the same time as them (for instance some times a uni will publish say BBC and more than half of their applicants for a single year will be predicted AAB in which case they will end up making actual offers far far higher than the published one, and sometimes the majority of their applicants might be predicted CCC in which case the actual offers they'll make would be much lower than the published offer)