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Reply 1
Ive heard that the RVC can be very lenient with the grades!
Reply 2
^Ya. I am RVC vet, and now I think about it, I'm not sure I can actually name anyone that I know of who actually made their grades! The majority of people have AAB, a good percentage have ABB. There is of course a sprinkling of brainiacs with AAA or even AAAA but they're by no means the majority as you might find in, say, Bristol or Cambridge. The RVC is more focussed on practicality than academia. I would be really, really surprised if the RVC didn't let you in after you dropped a grade. One of my two best friends had an AAB offer and they let her in with BBB. She was put on a waiting list and had to bombard them with correspondence for a week before she was accepted, but she still got in. I'm sure there must be other people with BBB who got in after being offered ABB and then dropping one grade. Because RVC give out ABB offers where Liverpool don't, and so clearly consider them perfectly acceptable grades, I would think they are the more likely of the two to accept you if you miss one A. However, I don't really think you should make your decision about firm and insurance offers on the basis of who is more likely to accept you should you miss your grades. It should be on the basis of which uni you prefer.
lucy wer those people given offers of ABB or not?! and do u no if their subjects wer all science related?! thanks xdx
Reply 4
Well Nottingham is my firm choice but I need to put an insurance. Trouble is I would be happy going to Liverpool or RVC as they are both great unis! But as they are all the same offer (AAB) I need an insurance choice that I stand a chance of getting into should I drop a grade.
Reply 5
Lucy.x
As long as your reasonably sure you will be happy at either then i disagree, i would but the one most likely to let you in. Say you had AAA from cams and AAB from bristol and RVC and you preferred bristol but liked both surely RVC is the better insurance as they are more lenient?


Lol this has all got really confusing! I guess in that situation I would have to say that if you have accepted an offer of AAA from Cambridge but are still seriously worried you might drop to ABB, you shouldn't have bothered accepting the Cambs offer in the first place! But to answer your question in earnest, if you genuinely think it's a real possibility that you might drop to ABB then yes, you (generic) should put whichever uni is more likely to accept you in that instance as your insurance. Better to get into a vet school you weren't so keen on than not at all. However, if you're fairly confident you will achieve at least AAB, put whichever uni you prefer.
Reply 6
tiny_tiger
Well Nottingham is my firm choice but I need to put an insurance. Trouble is I would be happy going to Liverpool or RVC as they are both great unis! But as they are all the same offer (AAB) I need an insurance choice that I stand a chance of getting into should I drop a grade.


Ok so if you're equally keen on both I would say it's pretty unequivocal consensus that RVC is far, far more likely to accept you in the event of you getting ABB.
Reply 7
JennyBean, my RVC offer states they want As in bio and chem and B in maths. If I was to get say A in chem and Bs in bio and maths would they still possibly consider me?
Reply 8
I don't think they'd even think about it! I don't really know why they bother specifying subjects. If you only drop one grade, they'll look at your interview, BMAT score and GCSEs. At the risk of removing the fear which I think is so important for vet school application (:biggrin: ), I would be really surprised if they didn't let you in with one dropped grade, regardless of which subjects you got what in.
Reply 9
Ok thank you! I dont think removing the fear is possible!!!!! Aaaarrrggghhh!
Oh I know, I **** myself right up to results day, even though people kept telling me that the RVC almost always accept you even if you don't make your offer. But then on the day, it all seemed so easy, they just accepted me straight off even though I dropped a grade, didn't even have to ring them up it just came up on UCAS. Believe me, you will look back and laugh about how stressed you got!
Reply 11
I hope so! Cos right now I am sh**ing myself!
Reply 12
I have an RVC offer of AAA and would love it as my insurance but it doesnt seem logical to put a higher offer as an insurance choice! Does anybody at the rvc/any1 that noes any1 at the rvc no how lenient they would be with an offer that i have? would they let me in with ABB or is that pushing it? Im puttin liverpool as my firm choice wich is AAB in any order......notingham have offered me the same as liverpool but i prefer RVC! Please helpx x x
I have a similar problem. I have AAB offers at both Liverpool and London the only difference is that London specifies the B to be in psychology but Liverpool says it can be in any of my subjects! At the minute I'm leaning towards Liverpool mainly because its closer to home - to be honest I think they are both really good unis and I'll do just as well at either of them.

There doesnt seem any reason to put one as an insurance but it seems so mad to decline an offer after all the hard work and stressing I'd put into getting one in the first place!
Reply 14
It might be worth puting an insurance. You seem to be leaning towards liverpool so why not put that as your firm and RVC as insurance. Apparently RVC can be quite lenient with offers, especially as you have an AAB offer instead of AAA so you did very well at interview and they obviously like you!
Reply 15
I am one of the luckiest people in the RVC. I am in the first year of the BVetMed course and i can distinctly remember what you are going through right at this moment. You shouldn't pay any real attention to my story what so ever as i cannot really tell you how i got in, in the end. (But i hope that you have just as much luck). I got an AAB offer at the RVC too and i was really pleased with this even though there were some people who got offers of ABB.

In the last year at my college i didn't really do as much work required to get A's at A level because at the time my friends were more important to me. Due to the fact that i had received an offer of AAB kind of gave me the idea that i did not have to work as hard as some students who got AAA offer. (I can tell you now that this is definitely not the case at all). On results day i got BBB. Which are good results in themselves but still not good enough to get me on the course that i wanted to do.

I can remember phoning up the RVC in tears that morning, and they told me that they had put me on to a waiting list as i had not got the grades required of me. I must have phoned them at least 20 times that day in tears, and i continued to phone them for the rest of the week about 10 times every day. I also got on to the UCAS helpline which told me to keep bugging my university and told me to write them a letter. In the letter i put how i went wrong and the fact that i was sorry and the work experience i undertook in the summer leading up to results day. I emailed this letter to all of the registry people at the uni. I faxed it and posted it special delivery, i even took it up to them by hand.

After about a week of bugging them continuously, they told me that i had a place. It was actually one of the happiest days of my life. As i said i do not really know what did it for me, but i'm guessing that the moral is if you don't get the grades just keep on bugging them. It shows your determination, because you need a lot of this to be on this course. I think i have probably answered your problem as i am a person that got 2 grades below what the university required. If you drop a grade i'm sure that you won't have such a bigger problem of getting in. Good luck in your exams and i hope you get the grades that you want xvx
You're right, Victagon, you're bloody lucky. I still can't QUITE work out why they let you in, I can only assume it was because someone on the admissions panel had a premonition of you annoying me every day with your 'lol'ing and thought it would be funny/that I deserved to be punished for some reason.
They obviously appreciated how much you wanted to get in V Plates!

Yeah I was thinking of that Tiny Tiger but they might be annoyed that I put them as insurance rather than firm so not be that leniant with the grades!
Reply 18
Jennybean
You're right, Victagon, you're bloody lucky. I still can't QUITE work out why they let you in, I can only assume it was because someone on the admissions panel had a premonition of you annoying me every day with your 'lol'ing and thought it would be funny/that I deserved to be punished for some reason.


And just for you jennybean . . . lol! xvx
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They obviously appreciated how much you wanted to get in V Plates!
Yeah I was thinking of that Tiny Tiger but they might be annoyed that I put them as insurance rather than firm so not be that leniant with the grades!


Don't feel you have to be polite to her, they blatantly just got fed up of her bugging them and said "fine, fine, have a place, jesus".

And also the unis don't know whether or not they're your firm or insurance choice, just whether or not you've accepted their offer. Besides which, the RVC at least would never hold it against a candidate if they were an insurance choice. They'll still be just as lenient as they would have been otherwise.