List of Universities which have started sending offers!

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Original post by mature student

This kind of scares me, is there an advantage to applying early then? I thought all apps before Jan deadline were considered equal?

They are all considered equally! As long as you send it before the deadline, you're in the same position as everyone else.

Some universities don't send out any offers until after January, so don't worry about it.

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"mature"student

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Original post by Squiidsquid

They are all considered equally! As long as you send it before the deadline, you're in the same position as everyone else.

Some universities don't send out any offers until after January, so don't worry about it.

What confuses me though is that if this is the case how come Unis are giving early offers. Surely they have limited offers to give out, so giving them out early is making it harder for later applicants?

3 of the UNI's I wish to apply for are in the "lots of offers" section haha.

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username2324315

I received an offer from Leeds yesterday for Spanish and Arabic, for any Modern Languages applicants out there :smile:

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Original post by mature student

What confuses me though is that if this is the case how come Unis are giving early offers. Surely they have limited offers to give out, so giving them out early is making it harder for later applicants?

They've been doing this for a while, so I assume they have a system for allocation? Edinburgh for example gets around 60,000 applicants per year, so they know how many more they're expecting. I'm p sure there's some threads flying about answering your question, which will be better at answering your question than me. :smile:

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Heirio

Huh. I've applied for Leeds and Sheffield for Theoretical Physics and for Warwick for Maths with Physics. Nothing yet.

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Lemur14

Volunteer Section Leader

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Original post by &quot

What confuses me though is that if this is the case how come Unis are giving early offers. Surely they have limited offers to give out, so giving them out early is making it harder for later applicants?

3 of the UNI's I wish to apply for are in the "lots of offers" section haha.

As said previously unis will know roughly how many applicants of roughly what quality they will get. This makes it easy to give offers to those who massively exceed the criteria, and reject those who are massively below it, leaving the more marginal decisions until they have received more applications and can see more precisely what their applicant pool looks like.
Hence, it does not disadvantage later applicants as it is only people who are clearly in the offer range who will receive offers this early and people at that level will receive an offer whether they apply in September or in January. The only people it will affect is the more marginal applicants, and almost all unis will wait until later to make decisions on those.

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Original post by Heirio

Huh. I've applied for Leeds and Sheffield for Theoretical Physics and for Warwick for Maths with Physics. Nothing yet.

Check the thread I linked above, maybe they've not made any offers to maths/physics yet?

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Notoriety

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Original post by mature student

This kind of scares me, is there an advantage to applying early then? I thought all apps before Jan deadline were considered equal?

An important thing to consider is that the people who are applying early are typically the Oxbridge applicants who are the most qualified and the most likely to receive offers anyway. It doesn't mean that applying early helps in itself.

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plankyton

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I think Glasgow have started sending offers!

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I've just got a letter from Leeds inviting me to an applicant day, which is a good sign and is usually followed by an offer.

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Miss Georgia

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I've had offers from Warwick, Birmingham, and Southampton!

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Original post by Miss Georgia

I've had offers from Warwick, Birmingham, and Southampton!

well done!! What course?

I tried to change my list, but the mobile app went ballistic - i'll put it back when i get back from holiday :smile:

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Heirio

got an offer from Sheffield for theoretical physics, AAA

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Dyscopia