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Students had spent a year or more making the right decision for them, and in fact were very happy with their firm choice and happy to be placed there, so a last minute change was not appealing.
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Adjustment listings were not publicly available. There was no way to search for Adjustment listings - applicants had to use the Clearing listing and/or just call up universities which was very labour intensive.
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There were also additional considerations such as finding new accommodation and amending student finance which added extra hurdles.