Only heard back from 1/5 Unis should I be worried?

I sent my application on the first of November to St Andrews, Durham, Bristol, Edinburgh, and York for Politics and Philosophy joint honours. I got an offer from York the day after I sent my application but all the others have been completely silent. Bristol sent me an email saying i'm on hold. Should I be worried its taking them all this long?

Some unis do a 'gathering field' in which they wait till all applications are in then send out offers. Last year KCL was pretty fond of this method and offers didnt come out for some people till April.

KCL messed up big-time last year - thousands, yes thousands, of applicants received no decision at all and were just left to fall off the edge on the UCAS May deadline. Many of them had been waiting since October. It was, apparently, a deliberate decision.

So - anyone who still has not heard from KCL by now should think very carefully about whether or not they want to wait for the same thing to happen to them.

Normal.

Stop worrying - the majority of applicants will still be waiting for decisions at this stage.
Uni have until mid-May to make all decisions, and many are made in the last few weeks.

I sent my application on the first of November to St Andrews, Durham, Bristol, Edinburgh, and York for Politics and Philosophy joint honours. I got an offer from York the day after I sent my application but all the others have been completely silent. Bristol sent me an email saying i'm on hold. Should I be worried its taking them all this long?

This isn't as convenient for those applying in other countries where the deadline to accept offers is May 1.

The UCAS deadline for accepting offers is in JUNE.

Last time I checked, UCAS isn't used in "other countries." For me, most of my offers will have to be decided on way before the UCAS deadline which means deciding to wait for my slow UK schools could end up with me not getting any offers. It's weird because where I live, in North America, most send their applications in January and hear back in March, but in the UK I applied in October and might not hear back until May? Strange.

Last time I checked, UCAS isn't used in "other countries." For me, most of my offers will have to be decided on way before the UCAS deadline which means deciding to wait for my slow UK schools could end up with me not getting any offers. It's weird because where I live, in North America, most send their applications in January and hear back in March, but in the UK I applied in October and might not hear back until May? Strange.

In the nicest way, the fact that you have decided to also apply to Unis in other countries is not UCAS's fault, nor is the concern of any of the UK Unis you may have applied to. And this isnt America, its the UK and like many other countries, we do things differently here.

Do you not have to apply through ucas? I didn’t think you could apply any other way to uk schools other than through UCAS no matter where you are in the world… so therefore the deadline for uk decisions is June, if North American schools have a deadline before that, that’s nothing to do with ucas or uk schools and is just something you have to accept when applying internationally I’m afraid.
Personally I quite like our system, we pay £27 and all the admin is done for us, the North American system you have to apply individually doing a multitude of essays and pay to every school individually which gets expensive v quickly 😬