Anyone else's Y13 not got UCAS application in?

Thanks Circular.

Will feed this info to him.

His is in the first batch of the non medics/ non Oxbridge applications from his school to be sent so he's not really got many to compare it with in his year group as yet. Most of the university students around here have gone home/ are off for Xmas but I suppose the admin and academic staff may still be working right up until the 24th.

Let's be positive but I'll suggest he leaves it for 24 hours before he starts checking too hard! Well done to your DD and fingers crossed her other four pop along soon.

Hedgehog DDs went last week. Had 3 receipts the next day, one offer and another receipt the day after, final receipt day after that.
I think the 48 gours is the maximum for UCAS to get the applications to the individual Unis during busy periods.
On the yr13 thread, many were getting offers very quickly.

I think DD has resigned herself to having to wait until after Xmas for the other 4 decisions.

Goid luck.

DS reports that the school has sent his application today. Six blooming weeks from finalising his PS...

Apparently the next thing he is waiting on is a welcome email from UCAS and then after that potentially some responses from the universities he has selected. He says the 'welcome' email takes 48 hours to come and is a bit gloomy about hearing from any one this side of xmas. Anyone else in same boat?

PS written and finalised here nearly four weeks ago but being held back by one of the subject teachers who just can't get his act together and complete the reference and predicted grade.

Attended a parents' evening over a week ago and took my opportunity to enquire semi casually how he was doing with it and say that otherwise UCAS was good to go. He admitted he hadn't started.

Still nothing today and said teacher is not in school. Thankfully DS texted at lunchtime to say he is now very annoyed and went to see his head of year to complain. Hopefully head of year will do the necessary.

That's great chemenger, I'm nagging DS now.

Slightly different for us in Scotland, results day was this summer, so none of that uncertainty.We're expecting all unconditional offers from Scottish universities (and conditionals from her English options, but I doubt she'll go with them).

Yay for Chemenger's DD!

unless of course the blighter does what DS did and decides against the course AFTER results day

Dd's UCAS application went in on Friday, 1st unconditional offer back today. She is going to university!

I have a year 14 (as in, he's already left!) who hasn't done his applications yet...

I have heard (probably on here) that the LNAT scores are on average lower than you think anyway and are part of the "package". If your predictions are good and essay good then you can get away with a score at the 19/20 level (excepting for Oxford). Average is usually apparently only 23 or so out of 42 so it's not exactly likely that our DC will think they've done well after anyway. I think Bham said at open day that it was really only important for their borderline candidates. No real knowledge though.

Deadline is 15 Jan.
DD1 not got hers in yet either, although has done CUKAS too which had 1 Oct deadline
PS currently with teachers as changed it for UCAS, hoping to get it out of the way in the next couple of weeks.

One advantage of being early and hopefully getting early offers, is more of a choice for applicant visit day dates. Have heard weekend dates when offered get snapped up first by those with he earlier offers.

When is the deadline?

The LNAT results go to/can be seen by the relevant universities a few days after it's taken, although the candidates don't get their individual results until after Xmas. So the universities will have that in the mix when they get his application. Hope he did ok in it though!

I think some schools push for early applications and encourage the belief that gives students a better chance. Ours is a bit like that. They set staggered deadlines (Medics/Oxbridge first, which have early deadlines anyway, then ask for RG apps by early November then rest by end of November). It means they're not trying to write masses of references on the last day of term. DS was meant to have his in early November but the deadline added to his already heightened stress levels as he still had places he wanted to visit. I ended up ringing the school so I could confirm to DS that the sky wouldn't fall in if he was a week or two late.

Early applications also mean students can get UCAS out of the way and focus on work.

If you look on the higher ed thread there are a number of posts from admissions tutors dispelling (quite forcefully) the myth that early applicants have a better chance and stressing that their years of experience means admissions departments are able to gauge the number of offers they can make from September onwards without getting it wildly wrong. Despite that, I've tried to limit the number of times I look at this thread and the higher ed thread as I start to panic too when I read about all the offers coming in!

I'm so glad to see this thread. DD still hasn't got hers in (just waiting for the teacher to approve her final draft PS, apparently) and I actually got a letter from the Head of Careers yesterday to say the school had wanted them all in by now so please get it completed! I was raging - DD has no sense of urgency and I just want it away.

I knew it didn't make a difference to the offers, but it's reassuring to hear again here!

Not in here yet

Also remember that a student may get five offers and turn down three or four of them.

DS is still waiting for school to complete his reference which should be any day now. Still ages before the deadline.

Universities have to treat all applications the same. That doesn't mean they can give out all their places in September/October and then turn away students of the same calibre in November and December. They do this every year so have the knowledge and experience to start making offers to early applicants without giving away all their places. After all, they've got to be able to exercise considerable judgement as they don't know how many of those they give offers to will actually get the required grades.

Your son isn't too late.

My eldest didn't send hers until late November last year and she got offers. We just took a while working out what to do first time round and it makes sense to take your time if you are still making decisions.

About half my form group haven't sent their in despite all the rockets I have been trying to put up them!