UCAS equal consideration deadline
I know I’m probably overthinking this but I wanted to double check. I submitted my application to the ucas website at around noon on the 14th of January, and received confirmation in the next half hour. I later received emails from universities thanking me for applying, but I noticed the reception date for my application was around the 15-17th January when I logged into each portal. Does that impact my application in any way, or am I still under equal consideration? ( the courses I’ve applied to didn’t require the October deadline btw)
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The UCAS deadline is the important one for equal consideration. The universities taking a few days to respond is because they don’t have a deadline for several months so can afford a few days before logging them onto their system.
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by JdamaI know I’m probably overthinking this but I wanted to double check. I submitted my application to the ucas website at around noon on the 14th of January, and received confirmation in the next half hour. I later received emails from universities thanking me for applying, but I noticed the reception date for my application was around the 15-17th January when I logged into each portal. Does that impact my application in any way, or am I still under equal consideration? ( the courses I’ve applied to didn’t require the October deadline btw)
Hi there, moved your thread to the Applications, Clearing & UCAS forum.
As above, what's important is when you submitted your UCAS application. The system might be a bit slow in passing it to the universities, but they will be aware that it was submitted on time to UCAS, so you are perfectly fine
Reply 3
UCAS mark your application as on time / after the deadline. You can't see this but your choices can. The dates in each uni portal aren't really relevant so long as UCAS received it on time.
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