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The Official 03/04 UCAS Application Progress Tracker Thread

As a follow up to the "Where have you applied to?" thread, this one will keep up with how your applications are progressing.

Please feel free to keep us informed with any offers you recieve - which should be in the following format:

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Institution

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Course Applied For

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Offer (Number of Points or Grade Specifics)

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What chances do you feel you have of achieving the terms of this offer ?

Also we would like to know how when you get interviews.

As a reference point, I would now like to keep a ready reckoner for you of the deadlines:

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1st September - Opening day for Applications

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15th October - Closing Date for Applications to Oxbridge, medicine, dentistry, or vet. med/ vet. science

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1st Janaury 04 - First date to recieve Art & Design Route B applications

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15th January - Advisory closing date for UK Applications

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5th March - Advisory closing date for Art & Design Route B applications

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30 June - Final Date for Submitting UCAS Extra applications before clearing

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19 August - Clearing Opens

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24 September - Final Date for Applications through Clearing

Important
If you recieve the response of your final University (AS6F) by date 1 you must reply with a decision of "Firm/Insurance/Offer Declined" by date 2

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31 March 2004 - 28th April 2004

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10 May 2004 - 7th June 2004

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18th June 2004 - 7th July 2004

Missing these deadlines puts your place at risk.

Please stick to the format, any general chit-chat can be kept to the forum, we want this just so we can follow people's progress, and so you can see what sort of time scale / how quickly the Universities are responding with offers etc.

Paper Trail

Confirmation Card
If you have sent off your application by post, you should soon afterwards recieve back your confirmation card which says that they have recieved your application.
YOU DO NOT REQUIRE THIS IF YOU ARE USING ELECTRONIC OR THE APPLY ROUTES OF APPLICATION.

AS2
Confirmation Letter - This document from UCAS confirms the courses and institutes to which you have applied, as well as your Online Enquiry Password, which allows you to track your progress.

Acknowledgements
These will come from each University, thanking you for applying to them, they will get back to you in the near future with their offer details, both on their letter headed paper, and by AS3 (below)

AS3
Offer Letter - These documents are what UCAS send to you with each an University replies to you with an offer. It may contain a rejection, a conditional offer, or unconditional offer.

AS6-F
Final Offer & Reply Slip
This is the document which contains the response from your last University to make a decision on making you an offer - at the bottom will be a slip to which you must reply, within the allocated deadline, with your decision on which to accept as Conditional Firm, and Conditional Insurance, Declines, (or indeed just an Unconditional Firm - if you are really lucky).

AS9
Audit Statement
This comes after you have made your decision on CF, CI, UF, D, and confirms your current position.

More Acknowledgements
Universities will now reply to you telling you that they appriciate you choosing them as Firm/Insurance, and will invite you up on their post-application open days. It is a good idea to go to these.

AS10 - Clearing Entry Form
If you do not succeed in making your offers for Firm or Insurance, you will be sent one of these.

AS12 - Confirmation of Place
Alternatively if you have reached made your offer, you will be sent one of these, to fill in and return to UCAS as SOON AS POSSIBLE.

AS18 - Acceptance in Clearing
This letter from UCAS is what you recieve should you be successful in gaining a place at an institution through clearing.

Reply 20

Unregistered

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University of Birmingham

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Political Science

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Offer: BBB

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Pretty good chances - I applied to Birmingham for my insurance choice. :smile:

Was very very happy! The screen finally changed. Hehe! Was shaking for half an hour and phoning everyone. My goodness, what will happen if I get an offer from one of my first choice unis?!!

Reply 21

Juwel

18

Samantha **

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University of Birmingham

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Political Science

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Offer: BBB

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Pretty good chances - I applied to Birmingham for my insurance choice. :smile:

Was very very happy! The screen finally changed. Hehe! Was shaking for half an hour and phoning everyone. My goodness, what will happen if I get an offer from one of my first choice unis?!!

Hahaha you should expect an offer from your good choices. At lest you didn't get straight As like some of those robots out there...

Reply 22

Juwel

18

Still no offers yet :frown:

... but it's been two weeks since I sent the form off. Am I just really impatient?

Reply 23

Surfing Hamster

1

ZJuwelH

Still no offers yet :frown:

... but it's been two weeks since I sent the form off. Am I just really impatient?

Me too! I guess we should be grateful we've recived no outright rejections, though!! :biggrin:

Reply 24

Leaby

7

Ha... It's been well over a month since mine was sent off. Still nothing... I just want to know now! Even if they're all rejections!

Reply 25

not1

15

ZJuwelH

Still no offers yet :frown:

... but it's been two weeks since I sent the form off. Am I just really impatient?

youre impatient :tongue:

give it a month before you start worrying

Reply 26

Expression

OP

14

ZJuwelH

Still no offers yet :frown:

... but it's been two weeks since I sent the form off. Am I just really impatient?

Simple answer YES.

I sent off my form last October, got my first offer in December, and the 6th at Easter.

Sometimes they do just take time, not because of reasons to do with you personally, but because of sheer numbers.

Reply 27

Oli

Nottingham sent me a letter saying they will "shortly be making an offer". So an unofficial acceptance =)

Edit: Checked UCAS online

Course: Computer Science(Bsc)
Offer: AAB

Still no reply from Cambridge =(

Reply 28

Unregistered

i sent my form off and got my letter from UCAS with my password in it to track my progress. It said on that my Application processed by UCAS: 22 Oct 03 (I gave my oxford form in on the 12th of October by hand) and also my UCAS postcard said that my application was recieved by the 14th october. Which one matters to oxford when it was recieved by Ucas or when it was processed????
Ps still had no reply from any universities

Reply 29

SaeedRehman

Unregistereddd

i sent my form off and got my letter from UCAS with my password in it to track my progress. It said on that my Application processed by UCAS: 22 Oct 03 (I gave my oxford form in on the 12th of October by hand) and also my UCAS postcard said that my application was recieved by the 14th october. Which one matters to oxford when it was recieved by Ucas or when it was processed????
Ps still had no reply from any universities

when it was recieved. so dont worry.

Reply 30

Goat

Bristol Uni
Computer Science (MEng)
AAB

Reply 31

Juwel

18

Goat

Bristol Uni
Computer Science (MEng)
AAB

Why is that a MEng, I thought the Eng bit meant Engineering?

Reply 32

Elle

6

Does the UCAS website tell you if you've been rejected or accepted before you get your letter?

Reply 33

Goat

ZJuwelH

Why is that a MEng, I thought the Eng bit meant Engineering?

It does stand for engineering. Computer Science departments are normally part of the faculty of engineering and many computer science courses have similarities with electronic engineering. The 4yr courses are usually accredited by the society of engineering (I think that what its called), but 3yr courses are not, so its

BSc (3yr)

or

MEng (4yr)

Reply 34

Juwel

18

Elle

Does the UCAS website tell you if you've been rejected or accepted before you get your letter?

Well the net is faster than snail mail so...

Reply 35

PQ

Clearing and Applications Advisor

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Elle

Does the UCAS website tell you if you've been rejected or accepted before you get your letter?

Rejected usually, accepted usually not.

Universities will usually post offers directly to applicants at the same time as telling UCAS - as there is a lag time for UCAS to process decisions you're more likely to recieve the offer letter before the UCAS system is updated.

Universities don't usually bother to tell you they've rejected you so the first you're likely to hear is through UCAS.

Reply 36

Elle

6

Pencil Queen

Rejected usually, accepted usually not.

Universities will usually post offers directly to applicants at the same time as telling UCAS - as there is a lag time for UCAS to process decisions you're more likely to recieve the offer letter before the UCAS system is updated.

Universities don't usually bother to tell you they've rejected you so the first you're likely to hear is through UCAS.