Psychology at UEA

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Hi,
I'm looking at taking psychology at Uni of East Anglia. On the UCAS website it says that typical offers are BBC. I'm quite confident I will get these grades however on the UEA website it says I need ABB. I also put in BBC and it said on UCAS that an overwhelming percentage of people who got these grades got in. Do you think that UEA are inflating their grades?

Reply 1

13359user

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i think it’s because sometimes unis are flexible with their grades so ucas is probably showing those who applied and maybe didn’t meet the grade requirement and still got in cause the uni is flexible. but on the UEA website it’s most likely showing the grades they require for the course and to get an offer, your predicted grades should be around the ones on the website maybe slightly below that might be okay to get a conditional offer, contact the uni and ask them beforehand so you know what grades you need to aim for.

Reply 2

McGinger

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The UEA website will tell you the 'entry requirements' and what the standard offer will be - the stats on UCAS are about what some applicants were accepted with on A level Results Day, and btw these stats are notoriously misleading because they cannot tell you why someone was accepted with those lower grades, and it therefore does not mean that in any forthcoming year, that anyone else will be accepted in August with those actual grades.

Reply 3

ageshallnot

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Just to add that the contextual offer is BBC, which will affect the stats.

Reply 4

UEA Rep Daniel

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by samuelhm100

Hi,
I'm looking at taking psychology at Uni of East Anglia. On the UCAS website it says that typical offers are BBC. I'm quite confident I will get these grades however on the UEA website it says I need ABB. I also put in BBC and it said on UCAS that an overwhelming percentage of people who got these grades got in. Do you think that UEA are inflating their grades?

Hi there,

This is a really common confusion. Basically, the ABB on UEA’s website is their standard advertised requirement. The BBC on UCAS comes from actual admissions data, which shows that lots of students with BBC (or similar) still got in.

Unis often make lower offers in practice — for example through contextual offers, Clearing, or if someone just misses their grades but is still a good fit. So it’s not that UEA are “inflating” their grades, it’s just the difference between the official benchmark and what they’ll actually accept when it comes down to filling places.

If you’re confident about BBC, you’re definitely in range. Just make sure your personal statement is strong, and maybe check if you’re eligible for a contextual offer (UEA often drop ABB to BBC in certain cases).

You’ll be fine — apply, and have a couple of back-ups with BBC as the published entry just to keep it safe.

Best,
Daniel

Reply 5

samuelhm100

OP

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Original post

by UEA Rep Daniel

Hi there,
This is a really common confusion. Basically, the ABB on UEA’s website is their standard advertised requirement. The BBC on UCAS comes from actual admissions data, which shows that lots of students with BBC (or similar) still got in.
Unis often make lower offers in practice — for example through contextual offers, Clearing, or if someone just misses their grades but is still a good fit. So it’s not that UEA are “inflating” their grades, it’s just the difference between the official benchmark and what they’ll actually accept when it comes down to filling places.
If you’re confident about BBC, you’re definitely in range. Just make sure your personal statement is strong, and maybe check if you’re eligible for a contextual offer (UEA often drop ABB to BBC in certain cases).
You’ll be fine — apply, and have a couple of back-ups with BBC as the published entry just to keep it safe.
Best,
Daniel

Thank you. I'm confident about UEA and will put it as my first uni. In regard to my personal statement, I'm grade 8 in piano and acting, which will give me quite a few UCAS points. I'm definitely not eligible for a contextual offer. Do you think if I put UEA as my first place uni it will make a sig difference? Also, do you think that UEA will take into consideration the UCAS points achieved via my piano and acting (45 UCAS points + the 112 if I get BBC)

Reply 6

ageshallnot

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Original post

by samuelhm100

Thank you. I'm confident about UEA and will put it as my first uni. In regard to my personal statement, I'm grade 8 in piano and acting, which will give me quite a few UCAS points. I'm definitely not eligible for a contextual offer. Do you think if I put UEA as my first place uni it will make a sig difference? Also, do you think that UEA will take into consideration the UCAS points achieved via my piano and acting (45 UCAS points + the 112 if I get BBC)

UCAS points from activities not related to the academic subject to which you're applying are irrelevant. Any offer made in terms of grades won't count up UCAS points anyway.

There's no concept of being "first". UEA won't know which other unis you've applied to. Even if you put UEA first on your application UCAS will reorder them alphabetically and blank the others out.

Reply 7

McGinger

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Do you think if I put UEA as my first place uni

You do not list your initial choices in any sort of preferential order - teachers get confused about this because 20 years ago you did have to do this - whatever order you put them in, UCAS will reshuffle them into alpha-order, and Unis will only see their application at this stage, they do not know where else you have applied until much later in the cycle.

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