Durham Rejection

I got A*A*A*A in Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History, but I got rejected last week only through an Email from UCAS and nothing from Durham itself. I applied for Economics with Management and am unsure why I got rejected, what’s the most likely reason, and is it still possible that I get into Edinburgh?

i am confident you will get into Edinburgh which is a bit less selective and you will have been borderline.

first question: did you go to a private or grammar school?

second question: why did you have completed A levels rather than predicted grades? what have you spent the last year doing?

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Private school and they’re predicted grades

ok so private school is the main answer.

the next question i would have asked are your GCSEs as indicators of how realistic your predicted grades are (any teacher can predict an A*). if you got all 9s then it will have been your personal statement

I got A*A*A*A in Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History, but I got rejected last week only through an Email from UCAS and nothing from Durham itself. I applied for Economics with Management and am unsure why I got rejected, what’s the most likely reason, and is it still possible that I get into Edinburgh?

ok so private school is the main answer.

the next question i would have asked are your GCSEs as indicators of how realistic your predicted grades are (any teacher can predict an A*). if you got all 9s then it will have been your personal statement

So I applied for Computer Science and I am predicted 5 A*s (Computer Science, Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and EPQ), 9999999988 at GCSE with the 8s in English Literature and RS, and I must have a decent personal statement at the very least because I got into far more competitive courses at Imperial, Edinburgh and Manchester. I too attend a private school but out of the 6 Durham CS applicants at my school, only one has received an offer so far and everyone else is still waiting (that offer was ABB!!).

I'm not sure what's wrong with my application here. What do you think is the problem with my application?

i am confident you will get into Edinburgh which is a bit less selective and you will have been borderline.

first question: did you go to a private or grammar school?

second question: why did you have completed A levels rather than predicted grades? what have you spent the last year doing?

Edinburgh is just as selective as Durham for this course and probably for many courses. Edinburgh will be more competitive than Durham for some courses.
Also, historically, Edinburgh has been known to favour Scottish students.

The ABB offer could be contextual….even within a private school. Often you don’t know all the personal circumstances in someone’s life. Contextual offers often go out first.

Not sure if you’ve actually been rejected or are just waiting to hear, If the latter, you may well get an offer sooner or later.

yeah sorry for the lack of clarification, I've not received anything but the volume of offers that have been sent out is making me think that I've been put on the 'reject' pile or 'on hold/soon to be rejected' pile.

the ABB offer isn't contextual because they told me that they aren't contextual, they haven't filled out a form of any sort and we go to a fee-paying school. Additionally, they live in an extremely well off area and they don't have any unfortunate situations at home either.

yeah sorry for the lack of clarification, I've not received anything but the volume of offers that have been sent out is making me think that I've been put on the 'reject' pile or 'on hold/soon to be rejected' pile.

the ABB offer isn't contextual because they told me that they aren't contextual, they haven't filled out a form of any sort and we go to a fee-paying school. Additionally, they live in an extremely well off area and they don't have any unfortunate situations at home either.