Insurance: Queen Mary or Sheffield?

i also have 1 extra quention and that is if i do slip my firm offer but still meet my insurance offer, would i be able to decline my offer and go thru clearing?

There is no way you can go through clearing once you have confirmed your firm and insurance. The confirmation of those places are binding, therefore if you miss your firm offer, you are bound to go to your insurance. The only way you can go into clearing is if you (a) get rejected from all 6 univerisites you have applied to or (b) miss both your offer and insurance offers.

Besides if you think about it, by the time you are aware if you miss your firm's offer or not, it will already be August, and the chance of getting offers from universities better then Sheffield and Queen Mary is veryyy slim.

So my suggestion to you, dimnight, is that you choose your firm and insurance very carefully and be certain that you would be happy with going to either those universities.

Hope this sheds some light.

You can actually asked to be released from you insurance but if you miss your firm...you won't find necessarily better than your insurance in clearing.

Really? My senior dean made it explicitly clear to me that you couldn't do that. Good thing Dark and Lovely picked it up and has more knowledge in that field then I. No matter, apologies to the OP if I had misled you in that statement.