Law Clearing

There is absolutely no harm at all in waiting until results day and seeing what you have achieved. You do not have to accept any offer a place before that date (unless it is Oxbridge) and the universities have to honour your offer until 5pm on results day, so you do not need to accept any offer now. In fact, you need to be careful about accepting a place on a course that you may change, in some circumstances uni's are treating the acceptance of an offer as a contractual obligation and you may be liable for the course fees if you do. At the very least you will need the permission of the uni you accepted the course from to change, and the time that will take will almost certainly close any chance of getting a law course in clearing to you. People are equally surprised at an unexpectedly good result as they are by bad ones - results vary based on what everybody else achieved. However, although Law places do come up in clearing they go fast - in fact VERY fast. My daughter shortlisted one university last year, results were supposed to be released at 8am, she got hers at 08:02, it took a couple of minutes to digest them so we called the uni at 08:05 and all of the law clearing places were already gone. I recall that UCAS make the clearing list available a few days before the results are out, I suggest you see what courses you want to apply to and start dialing the university number at 8am (even if you've not seen your results at that stage). At least you'll be first in line for the course if your grades meet the criteria - some uni's are flexible on grades once a course is in clearing so you may find you will still be considered even if you achieved a DDM. The important thing is to have a plan, work on getting the best grades you can and do not hastily accept an offer unless you are 100% sure that is the course you want to study.

There is absolutely no harm at all in waiting until results day and seeing what you have achieved. You do not have to accept any offer a place before that date (unless it is Oxbridge) and the universities have to honour your offer until 5pm on results day, so you do not need to accept any offer now. In fact, you need to be careful about accepting a place on a course that you may change, in some circumstances uni's are treating the acceptance of an offer as a contractual obligation and you may be liable for the course fees if you do. At the very least you will need the permission of the uni you accepted the course from to change, and the time that will take will almost certainly close any chance of getting a law course in clearing to you. People are equally surprised at an unexpectedly good result as they are by bad ones - results vary based on what everybody else achieved. However, although Law places do come up in clearing they go fast - in fact VERY fast. My daughter shortlisted one university last year, results were supposed to be released at 8am, she got hers at 08:02, it took a couple of minutes to digest them so we called the uni at 08:05 and all of the law clearing places were already gone. I recall that UCAS make the clearing list available a few days before the results are out, I suggest you see what courses you want to apply to and start dialing the university number at 8am (even if you've not seen your results at that stage). At least you'll be first in line for the course if your grades meet the criteria - some uni's are flexible on grades once a course is in clearing so you may find you will still be considered even if you achieved a DDM. The important thing is to have a plan, work on getting the best grades you can and do not hastily accept an offer unless you are 100% sure that is the course you want to study.

You do not have to accept any offer a place before that date (unless it is Oxbridge) and the universities have to honour your offer until 5pm on results day, so you do not need to accept any offer now.
Unfortunately this is totally incorrect - and on several different levels.

Can you explain how please i just wanna know if it will affect me

At the moment I’m predicted MMM (due to me slacking in year 12) for BTEC but I honestly think I will get DDD at the end of the year and the university that I really want to go to for Law takes D*D*D and so when I applied with my predicted MMM I was rejected first time do you think on clearing If I do get DDD that they would take me? (DDD for UCAS points is roughly 144 and the university takes UCAS points from 136 to 160)
I was offered by the same university to take criminology instead, but I really really want to do law and so if I do accept the offer for criminology at that uni can I still apply for law through clearing Any advice would be helpful )

Hello,
With clearing the grades can go up and down depending on how popular the course is. For law it is extremely popular so the grades are likely going to be high. If you did accept your offer for Criminology but then got the grades for Law you would be able to go through clearing.
If you did not get the grades for law at first instance you could always do Criminology then a law conversion course .
I hope this helps. If you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student

Thanks so much for the reply
If i do end up with DDD and the uni on results day do have law clearing spaces which are D*DD will i still have a chance ?