Do I reject my conditional firm offer and go through Clearing or wait on results?

I have a conditional firm offer from one university but after deep research and thought I've decided that this university is not right for my career choice and now I want to reject this conditional firm for another university that fits in better with my career plans. I do not have my A-level results yet so I'm wary about calling up the uni to decline my offer unless things go wrong with results, so I was wondering if you could give me any advice on how to proceed? Many thanks!

It is a good idea to contact UCAS they will be able to help you on there apply to offers on their undergraduate question and answer help page. You can also contact the university for further advise.

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There's really 2 ways you can go from here:
1. Contact the uni, explain you don't want to take up your place whatever your results and ask that once they get your results they release you into clearing. If you didn't achieve the grades needed to get into your firm and they rejected you rather than released you (as is their right if you didn't make the grades) then you'd have to go through the same process with your insurance uni.
2. Sit tight for now. On results day you may have achieved better than your offer in which case you could use adjustment so you don't lose that place while you are looking at other unis. Or if you haven't achieved better you would have to ask them to release you ASAP, while calling for a clearing offer from the other uni and hoping they will release you before the deadline for any clearing offer

Either option has pros and cons, and it's difficult to know which would be best. Is the uni you're looking at course in clearing at the moment?

I really don't see what UCAS can do? They'd just say to contact the uni I'm pretty sure.

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Yes, the course I am looking into, Drama with Film Studies, is on the Clearing page, and the offer is AAB-ABB, but the course at the uni of which I've been offered is BBB, so I'm slightly wary, but I have a very strong feeling that this is the course for me!

Yes, the course I am looking into, Drama with Film Studies, is on the Clearing page, and the offer is AAB-ABB, but the course at the uni of which I've been offered is BBB, so I'm slightly wary, but I have a very strong feeling that this is the course for me!

On top of the info above it'd be worth contacting the university you're interested in switching to and asking whether they'd need an audition/showreel for that course for clearing. That would give you a few days to prepare if it's required

Sit tight for results day! Get your grades, then phone up the university you want to go to, explain your situation, get a verbal offer from them, then ring up your conditional university, say you no longer want the place and for them to release you into clearing, so you can apply to your preferred course. If you get stuck, contact UCAS, they help a lot, I kept swapping and changing all the time, until I made a final choice!