Am I allowed to be annoyed at this?

Not really. You had an offer with conditions and you didn't make it. The uni is more than entitled to reject you for not meeting the requirements they set. It's bad luck you may have had a chance to be accepted anyway under different circumstances but the only way to be guaranteed a place is by meeting your conditions. Anything else is fair game.

I am aware of not meeting the entry requirements, that's not the part I'm annoyed about. I'm frustrated that I would have been accepted despite not meeting the entry requirements if another faculty was less trigger-happy with their conditions.

This can be moved to another forum if need be, I just assumed it could be in here due to it being related to clearing.

I've had to go through clearing after receiving an unsuccessful from Strathclyde after having a near miss in my results (required AB, achieved BB). Received an email today to say that I hadn't gotten in despite being so close, and after my sister calling she was told that the reason I couldn't be accepted was because the business school made a large number of their conditions far too easy and couldn't cut down their number of students as expected, resulting in a large amount of students being automatically accepted, and due to lack of funding, other faculties having to completely turn down applicants who almost met their conditions (like me). I already know that the biomedical faculty is extremely frustrated and therefore I ask the question of am I allowed to be frustrated too? I was told that they would have accepted me instantly if this wasn't the situation and therefore have to settle with a worse University which I have results that greatly surpass their general entry requirements.

This can be moved to another forum if need be, I just assumed it could be in here due to it being related to clearing.

I've had to go through clearing after receiving an unsuccessful from Strathclyde after having a near miss in my results (required AB, achieved BB). Received an email today to say that I hadn't gotten in despite being so close, and after my sister calling she was told that the reason I couldn't be accepted was because the business school made a large number of their conditions far too easy and couldn't cut down their number of students as expected, resulting in a large amount of students being automatically accepted, and due to lack of funding, other faculties having to completely turn down applicants who almost met their conditions (like me). I already know that the biomedical faculty is extremely frustrated and therefore I ask the question of am I allowed to be frustrated too? I was told that they would have accepted me instantly if this wasn't the situation and therefore have to settle with a worse University which I have results that greatly surpass their general entry requirements.

Of course you're allowed to be annoyed!

The university has been clear that they believe you're capable of the course and have the physical and teaching capacity to take you on the course... but a mixup elsewhere and the funding policy for universities has forced them to reject capable applicants.

Have you tried asking if they would defer your offer or accept a reapplication if you take a gap year?

You could likely find a paid year in industry for a gap year that would help with your studies and earn some cash.

Unfortunately your options within Scotland will be pretty limited - that limited funding pot again. If you're open to studying in England/wales/NI you might have more luck finding something that suits you that can fit you in.

Unfortunatley its the price students pay in Scotland for free tuition. I do understand your frustrations though- like you I ended up in clearing having missed my offers at my first time of applying. Instead of settling for a worse university I didn't go through clearing in the end, I retook my exams and got into a university I had originally applied for. So taking a gap year, retaking and reapplying is something to seriously consider if the university will accept the grades at the second attempt.

"Trigger happy with their conditions" what???

If they made the conditions harder than they were, you realise that your BB grade means you probably still wouldn't get in right?

A lot of people met the entry requirements this year. They filled up all the spaces. You didn't meet the entry requirements so you are not entitled to the place. If there's plenty of people with AB or higher that applied, why would they reject them and give the place to someone lower than AB?

I don't want to sound harsh. I get how horrible it can be to realise you didn't get into the place where you wanted to. And in some ways, you do have the right to be annoyed. But that's just how the system works. They can't help it a lot of people met the entry requirements.

No, it's the price students pay for failing to meet the entry requirements of the university. If you don't meet the requirements, you aren't entitled to a place. It is at the university's discretion whether to accept you or not. I do have sympathy with the OP, but you know...