The big thread of questions about Track status

Congratulations. Good luck at cambridge on the 12th.
I messed up my cambridge interview big time last week So I'm coming to Durham (grades permitting). I love durham and prefer the course having 6 (2+2+1+1 for me I think) options not 4 in the first year and no compulsory maths! I'm sooooooo happy maybe will see you there!!

I sent my application to Durham on the 27th of December, and AES still says my application has been recieved by the university, but not by the department

anyone else had the same problem?
i dunno whether its just AES being unreliable or whether to phone them and ask about it :/

I sent my application to Durham on the 27th of December, and AES still says my application has been recieved by the university, but not by the department

anyone else had the same problem?
i dunno whether its just AES being unreliable or whether to phone them and ask about it :/

Same thing has happened to me. I applied roughly at same timeas you but it still says that the department has not received my application. Probably overloaded. I might phone next week if it is the same. What are you applying for?

haha good to see it's not just me then
i'm applying for physics and you're law i see?
Yeah i think if it stays like this much longer i'll phone too.
Don't they have to tell us soon though so we can go to the open day thing in march?

Yeh i would have thought so

Not necessarily, when I applied a few years ago I got my offer on the 31st of March so missed the open days!

ohh no i hope that doesn't happen! i really want to see the place since i've no idea where i wanna go for uni

I just got email back saying that there has been a problem with AES which should be fixed by Monday. She said mine had been passed on to the Law School

Oh good so did you email them about it first?

Hallo. When does Durham usually give out combined arts offers/rejections?

The department head throws a dart at the calendar and whatever day it lands on is the day when all offers and rejections are given out. Not sure what day it is this year.

Or, like just about every other department, people hear back gradually over a space of several months spanning from autumn of last year to the UCAS deadline. Pick your favourite.

Very helpful...

Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

Why was it a silly question? Many universities have specific periods when it is likely to hear a reply from them. Why would a university cast random offers and rejections over a number of months like fish food being scattered in to a bowl when they could just do it in one big load? Its likely that nobody could give a specific date, but a general idea would have been helpful.

You may as well have not replied

people hear back gradually over a space of several months spanning from autumn of last year to the UCAS deadline

Also I know of hardly any departments that give all their offers and rejections "in one big load" so I'm not sure why you think that.