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I applied for maths at Durham and received a reduced contextual offer. However I don't think I qualify for one. The only criteria I meet is that my current school is a state school but it's a selective one with quite high average grades. My school for GCSEs was a comprehensive. The only other thing I could think of is that I'm an ethnic minority but I thought that wasn't considered.
On the Durham website it says you need to meet two of the criteria to recieve a contextual offer.
The reason I ask is because Durham do reduced maths offers with suitable results in the MAT and I was going to email them asking if they still consider it on top of a contextual offer (unlikely but possible) but my friend said not to incase the offer was a mistake.
On the Durham website it says you need to meet two of the criteria to recieve a contextual offer.
The reason I ask is because Durham do reduced maths offers with suitable results in the MAT and I was going to email them asking if they still consider it on top of a contextual offer (unlikely but possible) but my friend said not to incase the offer was a mistake.
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(Original post by thatbadstudent)
I applied for maths at Durham and received a reduced contextual offer. However I don't think I qualify for one. The only criteria I meet is that my current school is a state school but it's a selective one with quite high average grades. My school for GCSEs was a comprehensive. The only other thing I could think of is that I'm an ethnic minority but I thought that wasn't considered.
On the Durham website it says you need to meet two of the criteria to recieve a contextual offer.
The reason I ask is because Durham do reduced maths offers with suitable results in the MAT and I was going to email them asking if they still consider it on top of a contextual offer (unlikely but possible) but my friend said not to incase the offer was a mistake.
I applied for maths at Durham and received a reduced contextual offer. However I don't think I qualify for one. The only criteria I meet is that my current school is a state school but it's a selective one with quite high average grades. My school for GCSEs was a comprehensive. The only other thing I could think of is that I'm an ethnic minority but I thought that wasn't considered.
On the Durham website it says you need to meet two of the criteria to recieve a contextual offer.
The reason I ask is because Durham do reduced maths offers with suitable results in the MAT and I was going to email them asking if they still consider it on top of a contextual offer (unlikely but possible) but my friend said not to incase the offer was a mistake.
How do you know it was a contextual offer, they may have just decided to give you a lower offer for other reasons such as a department decision to give better offers to strong applicants in the hope they will pick Durham. Does it actually say it is a contextual offer?
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Just to reiterate - universities do not yet have any ethnicity data for their applicants. This information is only shared with us at the end of the application cycle.
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