Insurance choice uni and clearing question

I take the IB and I am one point away from making my firm choice offer. They haven’t rejected me yet and have told me I will receive their decision once A levels come out in August. I have met the conditions for my insurance choice but I am starting to doubt whether or not I’d actually like to go there… I’ve seen my course and courses similar to the one I’ve applied for (might need to tweak my personal statement for those ones, don’t know if that’s an option?) show up in clearing on UCAS, for unis I might prefer to my insurance choice. I do have the grades to apply to these courses through clearing. If I don’t make my firm choice in August, can I apply to other unis through clearing? Will I need to ask my insurance choice to release me first? How big of a risk would I be taking if I do go down that route, considering I won’t have a confirmed place anywhere (I’m not dead set against my insurance choice, just not 100% sure either)? Would really appreciate any advice at all!! Thank youu

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Original post by Saffronkrs

I take the IB and I am one point away from making my firm choice offer. They haven’t rejected me yet and have told me I will receive their decision once A levels come out in August. I have met the conditions for my insurance choice but I am starting to doubt whether or not I’d actually like to go there… I’ve seen my course and courses similar to the one I’ve applied for (might need to tweak my personal statement for those ones, don’t know if that’s an option?) show up in clearing on UCAS, for unis I prefer to my insurance choice. I do have the grades to apply to these courses through clearing. If I don’t make my firm choice in August, can I apply to other unis through clearing? Will I need to ask my insurance choice to release me first? How big of a risk would I be taking if I do go down that route, considering I won’t have a confirmed place anywhere? Would really appreciate any advice at all!! Thank youu

If your firm choice chooses not to accept you, then on AL results day you should automatically be placed at your current insurance choice. if that happens, then you will have a "release myself into clearing" button on UCAS Hub. You won't need to contact your insurance or speak to them at all.

There's risk in that you don't know what other options will be available, but on the other hand if you don't fancy your insurance choice then you are not really losing out on anything.

NB. 1 point is very close and the majority of courses would probably end up accepting you. They must be very close on numbers if they've put you on hold.