Anyone applying for Royal college of arts 2020?

I personally don’t think they are waiting for the chosen applicants to accept the offer because I haven’t heard almost anyone getting the offer for the second round yet. Most of the results that were already sent out seem like rejection or waitlists. I think the uni is shut down and things are just being extremely delayed...
And what do you mean by political decision?

I personally don’t think they are waiting for the chosen applicants to accept the offer because I haven’t heard almost anyone getting the offer for the second round yet. Most of the results that were already sent out seem like rejection or waitlists. I think the uni is shut down and things are just being extremely delayed...
And what do you mean by political decision?

Obviously I'm not sure, but I could imagine that the preasure from current students are causing them to hold their horses.
They might be affected by political (and economical) decisions regarding opening up educational institutions (or not) in the fall. These decisions can come from RCA, but also from the gov. Taking into consideration that many applicants are international only makes it more uncertain.

If someone got an offer I don't know what to think. It's just stunning the lack of information or at least life signs from the admissions group. This again just points to some political bull**** imo

"Thank you for your email. We have processed and communicated the vast majority of decisions for applications submitted in Round 2 of our admission process. We are aware that in a number of cases, decision emails we send get automatically routed to junk/spam folders. We would ask that all candidates continue to check their junk/spam folders; if after checking there you still do not have a decision email from us, please reply to this email to confirm that and we will check further."

I've confirmed that I haven't received the decision yet. Let's see.

I was also thinking that the other day. I wonder if they're still waiting to hear back from the chosen applicants in the first round. I heard quite a few international applicants who got offer in the first round have chosen to defer due to the COVID-19 situation, but I don't know if that would be valid enough for such delays.

Spoke to an admin earlier on about the situation. Seems like they are really struggling with the requirement to work from home, they don't have much of an idea about what is happening timescale-wise.
If this helps, I was informed they had a meeting today about dealing with "application inboxes" seems like they are possibly about to start responding to emails or maybe even start responding to applications.
Either way, seems like a messy situation and will probably take a lot more time than was previously stated.

Thanks so much for this info! But not quite sure what the application inboxes thing means🥺 Have they made the majority of decisions like they said and sent out most of the results, but there’s been delays presumably caused by some issue with their email system?

That is understandable - I hope you are offered a place on your desired course.



So i asked the about when the waiting list final decisions will be given out and this was their pretty lame response -_- What even...

What did they say? To me they said they aim to get back to me within 4 weeks (I'm on the waiting list).

I applied for Vis comm (GD) and I'm still waiting.
I've not been able to get in contact with anyone other than the general admissions, who don't seem to know anything

It seems to me that either they (vis comm) are waiting for the chosen applicants to accept the offer
– or that maybe they are waiting for some kind of political decision?