UCAS Application

OP

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by pigeonwarrior

Ok so I am resitting my 3 A Levels. I do not want to put my A Level grades from this year and only want my predicted grades to go on there. Also as I have made a new account, and I will make minor alterations to my personal statement, would UCAS flag it as me copying someones ps? (which is my own from my previous account)

Thanks in advance for any help!

Reply 2

PQ

Original post by pigeonwarrior

Ok so I am resitting my 3 A Levels. I do not want to put my A Level grades from this year and only want my predicted grades to go on there. Also as I have made a new account, and I will make minor alterations to my personal statement, would UCAS flag it as me copying someones ps? (which is my own from my previous account)

Including awarded grades isn’t optional.

Why have you made a new account instead of just starting a new application on your existing account?

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OP

Original post by PQ

Including awarded grades isn’t optional.

Why have you made a new account instead of just starting a new application on your existing account?

So I have to include my A Level grades from this year then? I had started a new one as someone told me that if I start a new one there will be no link between my old one and unis so they can't see my existing AL grades

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OP

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Basically my AL grades from this year are absolutely horrific. But I have decent predicted grades and good gcses. As I want to have a good shot at securing a spot at a top uni, I wanted to exclude my original AL grades

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PQ

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by pigeonwarrior

So I have to include my A Level grades from this year then? I had started a new one as someone told me that if I start a new one there will be no link between my old one and unis so they can't see my existing AL grades

Yes you MUST include all awarded grades. Deliberately withholding information makes your application fraudulent.

starting a new account won’t prevent ucas from matching your application to your previous account and linking in your awarded grades (so universities will see the grades AND that you withheld them to make a fraudulent application).

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Admit-One

Uni's care a lot more about application fraud than they do naff grades from people that are retaking.

As above, UCAS would link it eventually in which case unis will have access to all your grades.

Start a new app via your old account.

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OP

Universities Forum Helper

Thank you to all who responded! Yup, I will just start a new application using my old account, and include more safety unis I guess. But I have mitigating circumstances to explain my bad grades so maybe there is hope for me? Anyhow, thank you all so much for your guidance!

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Admit-One

Original post by pigeonwarrior

Thank you to all who responded! Yup, I will just start a new application using my old account, and include more safety unis I guess. But I have mitigating circumstances to explain my bad grades so maybe there is hope for me? Anyhow, thank you all so much for your guidance!

It would be worth having your ref cover the mitigating circumstances, in case you apply
to any unis where a resit might be a disadvantage, (most will be completely fine with it regardless).

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Universities Forum Helper

Original post by Admit-One

It would be worth having your ref cover the mitigating circumstances, in case you apply
to any unis where a resit might be a disadvantage, (most will be completely fine with it regardless).

Erm they are actually quite bad on paper. I never thought it would be like this, but yes I will get my referee to say why they are what they are, and I just hope that unis will not reject me on this basis. I heard imperial might be quite judgy, so it's a bit of a long shot :frown:

despite having decent gcses and really good predicteds but anyways... thank you for your help! :smile:

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Admit-One

Original post by pigeonwarrior

Erm they are actually quite bad on paper. I never thought it would be like this, but yes I will get my referee to say why they are what they are, and I just hope that unis will not reject me on this basis. I heard imperial might be quite judgy, so it's a bit of a long shot :frown:

despite having decent gcses and really good predicteds but anyways... thank you for your help! :smile:

No worries. If the circumstances were serious then it’s also worth checking whether any of the unis have a separate process for submitting them outside of the application. Google the uni name + mitigating circumstances.

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