Firm and insurance - lower/higher for firm? Any rules or t&c.

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If I put a BBB offer for insurance and put a BBC offer for firm is this okay? Does it put me at a disadvantage? Can the universities I applied to see my other choices and decision? Are they less likely to accept me if I put them for insurance and my grades don’t match up.

The logic being that if I get the higher grades on results day then I will go for the higher conditional offer university and decline the other one? Otherwise i will stick to the firm bbc university (if that makes sense)

Please advise me on what to do.
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DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

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by Hants1

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If I put a BBB offer for insurance and put a BBC offer for firm is this okay? Does it put me at a disadvantage? Can the universities I applied to see my other choices and decision? Are they less likely to accept me if I put them for insurance and my grades don’t match up.

The logic being that if I get the higher grades on results day then I will go for the higher conditional offer university and decline the other one? Otherwise i will stick to the firm bbc university (if that makes sense)

Please advise me on what to do.
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This doesn't work, unfortunately, as you don't get to pick and choose between your firm and your insurance on results day.

If you were to achieve BBC grades (or above - e.g. BBB), then you would meet the conditions of your firm choice who would automatically confirm your place. Your insurance offer would "vanish" at that point. The only way gain entry to your insurance choice at this point (even if you achieved A*A*A*) would be to click the "decline my place" option in UCAS Hub, which would drop you into Clearing. You'd then have to hope that your insurance choice was actually available in Clearing. As I'm sure you'll agree, this is probably not a good approach.

The only scenario where having an insurance choice with higher grade requirements that your firm makes any sense is if you have a good reason to believe that your firm choice would be inflexible if you just missed the required grades and your insurance choice would be very flexible. In your scenario, this would be you achieving BCC grades and your firm (which wanted BBC) opting not to confirm you place, but your insurance (which wanted BBB) happily accepting BCC. Do you have any reason to believe that this is the case with your chosen unis?

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PQ

Clearing and Applications Advisor

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by Hants1

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If I put a BBB offer for insurance and put a BBC offer for firm is this okay? Does it put me at a disadvantage? Can the universities I applied to see my other choices and decision? Are they less likely to accept me if I put them for insurance and my grades don’t match up.

The logic being that if I get the higher grades on results day then I will go for the higher conditional offer university and decline the other one? Otherwise i will stick to the firm bbc university (if that makes sense)

Please advise me on what to do.
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If you want to go to the BBB choice if you get the right grades then put that as your firm choice.

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