Starting year 13 2016

Birmingham Open Day today DS currently asleep in the back of the car

Welcome - the more the merrier.

The impression my DD got (from talking with friends with older sibs) is that some unis do what you describe (the only one she'd heard of was Durham) but that some might offer lower to early applicants. Whether in truth many of them actually play these games I don't know!

I hope you don't mind me joining in this thread. I have a DD who is applying for English Lit. Her application went in a few days ago. She's a bit stressed, as some friends already have offers from the likes of Leeds, Warwick and Bristol. She's applied to Cambridge, but also loves the Bristol course, so an early offer from Bristol would be fabulous (obviously).

To follow on from the discussion above, as I understand it, the reason that "non-oxbridge" candidates don't put in their applications until after the oxbridge deadline is that if it goes in before, universities may assume that the person has made an Oxbridge application. Universities like Edinburgh don't want to be anyone's insurance, so they often make ludicrously high offers, if they think someone is also applying to Oxbridge.

So, if you are not applying to Oxbridge, "missing" the deadline by a day or two makes sense. You get your application in early, and it's over and done with, and you might get an early offer from one of your choices. But you might get a slightly lower offer, so less stress about having to hit very high grades. Wins all round!

dd is relieved to have got her form in now as it has taken a lot of pressure away.

Offers were very variable for my older dc with replies from universities. The earliest was the week of submission and the latest was the beginning of May! Most came around Christmas / January.

Poor girl - I guess music teachers and the like don't always get that practice may at times be a low priority. It can lead to kids quitting when all they need is a bit of slack.

I'm not sure whether it was a text or an email as she showed me the message on her phone.I think because its parents evening tonight he promised to give everyone the results of the test before.I would suspect he's tired after 9 pm - he's normally a very good teacher.
I think she had had an awful day .Her Double Bass teacher had told her off for not practicing enough - before 9am and there's a tremendous amount of stress and things to complete for Vet applications that I don't think he's aware of.

The deadline for early application is the 15th.

Has the closing date for Oxbridge applications now passed? DD is getting very twitchy because apparently the non-Oxbridge applicants can't put their forms in till Oxbridge is done.

teta, sounds like that teacher is deranged - WTF are they thinking, texting results late at night? And they shouldn't have her personal number anyway

Blimey, Teta, sounds gruelling. And WTF texting test results with that sort of comment?

Mines received back a list of questions from Surrey to fill in by Sunday.Notttingham will be sending dd a timed Situational Analysis test too .Not sure about the other two.I've spent the day touring Vet practices to get signed references as not one of them were!She needs five signed in a very specific format for Surrey.
Meanwhile she's in tears tonight as her teacher texted her today's test results - and its the first time she hasn't got an A ( it was a c) and he said he was very disappointed in her ( after 9pm tonight).Bloody hell as if she hasn't got enough to cope with !

Thanks for the replies. His UCAS form didn't go in until today but it's good to know he may get an offer or two in the next few weeks.

I think we will all be a bit relieved when he gets his first offer!

Mine has has acknowledgements from 4 of her 5 - southampton evidently had a glitch in their system because she got one from them every morning for a week. Hence the twitching alluded to earlier as they're the only uni she's applied to that offers without interview (I think), and she knows someone who got an offer from there a couple of weeks ago - different subject though.

DD says that some Oxbridge-applying people in her form have already had offers.

My DD's form was submitted yesterday (includes Oxford). She received an acknowledgement today from Oxford and Newcastle. No offers yet ;)

Not sure how it works if it's an Oxbridge application but my DS1 (who didn't apply to Oxbridge) got all his offers quite soon after applying.

I think the other unis will just make their offers as they would normally as they don't see where else the student applies to (although it's fairly obvious they have (usually) applied to Oxbridge if it's before the deadline).

Ds1 has submitted his UCAS form this week (including Oxford hence the early form). Am I right to assume he won't hear from his other choices for ages? I assume the New Year.

Not done this before so don't know what to expect.

If it makes any difference he has applied for Maths. So we are assuming that he will hear from Oxford once the results of the MAT are known.

TIA

I think it was what tipped the balance on DD applying to cambridge.

Our school won't do anything until after the Oxbridge applications have been sent.

Same so she put in on the list!

Yes same as DDs, Horse.

DD is happy with her predicted grades and seems to be getting closer to finishing her PS

Our school won't do anything until after the Oxbridge applications have been sent.

DS still hasn't decided which course he wants to do 😕 I am getting twitchy now, especially as he hasn't written a PS yet - says he can't until he knows what course he is applying for.

I want his application sent early so we can just get on with life a bit.

We're off to look at B'ham next Saturday.

Not an Oxbridge candidate here either.

My dd is the opposite Errol, not applying to Cambridge because she doesn't want to do general engineering.

She is planning to submit after the Oxbridge deadline. She is still tweaking her personal statement, but has otherwise completed the UCAS form.

Dd's sent off hers too.Not before correcting the grammatical errors in her reference.They're allowed to read them in a meeting with the headmaster.He apparently said with so many corrections she should be a teacher .She also got a pep talk about how good her statement was and came home happier.Until 11pm when she phoned me from her attic bedroom in a panic about references.

Mine is having a shot at Cambridge - it might be a bit of a long shot and shes not that convinced that General engineering is the right course for her anyway.

Are these all potential Oxbridgers that have sent off their UCAS's? DD says her school won't deal with any others until they have been done and dusted!

, DD is working harder than last year - praying it continues!