Can i appeal a university rejection, if so, how?

Then your argument is with your College. There is nothing wrong with the University process.

Yeah but i did email the univercities so why they did not understnd it was out of my hands.

The worst thing is i got rejected first from greenwich and then an hour later someone responds to my email about not getting references on time.

They did understand it was out of your hands, but the application process has clear rules, and in order to meet those rules, some co-operative action is required between the applicant and their referee. It's not any fault of any universities if that co-operative action fails. Again, your issue lies with your College, and it won't change the University outcome.

They did understand it was out of your hands, but the application process has clear rules, and in order to meet those rules, some co-operative action is required between the applicant and their referee. It's not any fault of any universities if that co-operative action fails. Again, your issue lies with your College, and it won't change the University outcome.

so even if i get the head of department at my college to write them?

You can speak to your head of department and if you can show you met all their internal deadlines, they might decide to see if they can take action on your behalf, but it won't be a formal appeal process.

@Blackstarr

Frankly, leaving until the week before the deadline was asking for trouble. You showed a lack of understanding of the process, and/or a lack of insight into the fact that the tutor must have had current students to put through the process as well as you. If you had been a current student, would you have been pleased if your tutor had put off dealing with your reference to write one for a gap year student who had requested it at the last minute? No, I thought not.

What you've learned here is a valuable life lesson. Processes and deadlines exist in order to make it fair for everyone involved. You defeat yourself at the first fence if you don't observe the rules. Why should you be allowed some slack if no-one else is?

References are important, and in some shape or form will be so for the rest of your student/working life. You'd do yourself a big favour by taking them seriously: always ask permission to give someone's name, always give them as much notice as you can, and always give them (a) your CV and (b) a copy of any guidance about reference content requirements if provided. Clearly in this case, your tutor is very experienced in UCAS applications and wouldn't have needed (b), but as you are on a gap year, if you didn't give your tutor (a) and a note of what you were applying for and why, you were not helping yourself in the slightest.

You can only make an appeal if you believe something has gone wrong with the University procedure ie they lost your whole application and didn't assess it at all, then you could appeal and get them to assess it.

You can't appeal on the basis of academic judgement ie they assessed your application not to be strong enough. Also you can't appeal on the basis you don't agree with their process, for example that you have to submit references by a deadline.

I'm afraid you don't have a case for an appeal, based on what you've said.

@Blackstarr

Frankly, leaving until the week before the deadline was asking for trouble. You showed a lack of understanding of the process, and/or a lack of insight into the fact that the tutor must have had current students to put through the process as well as you. If you had been a current student, would you have been pleased if your tutor had put off dealing with your reference to write one for a gap year student who had requested it at the last minute? No, I thought not.

What you've learned here is a valuable life lesson. Processes and deadlines exist in order to make it fair for everyone involved. You defeat yourself at the first fence if you don't observe the rules. Why should you be allowed some slack if no-one else is?

References are important, and in some shape or form will be so for the rest of your student/working life. You'd do yourself a big favour by taking them seriously: always ask permission to give someone's name, always give them as much notice as you can, and always give them (a) your CV and (b) a copy of any guidance about reference content requirements if provided. Clearly in this case, your tutor is very experienced in UCAS applications and wouldn't have needed (b), but as you are on a gap year, if you didn't give your tutor (a) and a note of what you were applying for and why, you were not helping yourself in the slightest.

I am not trying to argue with anyone, just saying.

It does not take long to do a bloody reference like i could have done one for myself but that would have been fraud.

And yeah, i never contacted him like lastminuite.com it was like a good week before.

A good week ago is pretty much last minute though, you needed to have contacted him by November atleast or early Dec so provisions can be made and that they can have time to alter the reference if needs be and make sure everything is fine. But there is no point discussing this as the deadline has ended.

It means that you have no grounds for an appeal ie you can't go through a formal process with all the usual checks and balances to ensure fairness. All the College can do is ask each individual University to break their rules and act unfairly to others, by considering your late* application, because of the College's failings. I think this is highly unlikely.


*It will be late, because you missed the deadline to submit a complete application, and they will require the missing reference in order to consider your application

It means that you have no grounds for an appeal ie you can't go through a formal process with all the usual checks and balances to ensure fairness. All the College can do is ask each individual University to break their rules and act unfairly to others, by considering your late* application, because of the College's failings. I think this is highly unlikely.


*It will be late, because you missed the deadline to submit a complete application, and they will require the missing reference in order to consider your application

I don't see why a reference should hold wait to my application when grades and the statemenst speak for themselves.

@Blackstarr

Frankly, leaving until the week before the deadline was asking for trouble. You showed a lack of understanding of the process, and/or a lack of insight into the fact that the tutor must have had current students to put through the process as well as you. If you had been a current student, would you have been pleased if your tutor had put off dealing with your reference to write one for a gap year student who had requested it at the last minute? No, I thought not.

What you've learned here is a valuable life lesson. Processes and deadlines exist in order to make it fair for everyone involved. You defeat yourself at the first fence if you don't observe the rules. Why should you be allowed some slack if no-one else is?

References are important, and in some shape or form will be so for the rest of your student/working life. You'd do yourself a big favour by taking them seriously: always ask permission to give someone's name, always give them as much notice as you can, and always give them (a) your CV and (b) a copy of any guidance about reference content requirements if provided. Clearly in this case, your tutor is very experienced in UCAS applications and wouldn't have needed (b), but as you are on a gap year, if you didn't give your tutor (a) and a note of what you were applying for and why, you were not helping yourself in the slightest.

You asked your college a week before the deadline. You idiot you really had this coming