You know on a level results day, if you found out through an email accepting you into uni, what time did you find out ?

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From what I seem to find out giggling results come out at 8 am

bit if you found out before that in previous years, say from getting an email from one of your uni choices
what time did you find out ?

DC was rejected from uni on results day. Found out A level results at 8 am but couldn't get onto UCAS until around 9:30 due to volume of traffic, which is when the rejection was confirmed.

It all worked out much for the best!

DD received her email from Uni around 7am

My daughter found out about 9.45.

Dd had an email from her top choice uni offering her a place 5 minutes before the one telling her the results. Glad it happened this way as her grades weren’t as high as she wanted but by that time she knew she’d got her place.

Was an acceptance or rejection ? Just wondering does one come out before the other?

Was an acceptance or rejection ? Just wondering does one come out before the other?

Did you start ringing around unis for clearing or did you have to wait for results first

DD1 found out she had been accepted at about 7:15am. DD2 about 7:45am

Just marking my place. Our first a level results day is approaching fast

Older dd found out on ucas tracking she'd got her place at her first choice, but didn't get the email from her college with her actual grades until 11.30am!

Same !! Haven’t got a clue what we’re doing

It's fairly common for students to find out earlier in the morning. My niece had an email at a minute past midnight letting her know that her offer to study nursing was now unconditional. My son got his uni update before 8am confirming his place, even though he had actually missed their requirements by a grade, so he was surprised when he arrived at college to collect his results. I actually work as a College UCAS Advisor and my son's experience is very common amongst students. This is the first year I can remember so many unis announcing the grades they'll be accepting in clearing so far ahead of A level results day, and also have anecdotally heard of several students' offers being made unconditional way ahead of the embargo period, because so many unis are struggling financially and desperate to secure bums on seats.

Acceptance, good luck !

8am acceptance, results later

2 rejections early (before we’d woken up) then an acceptance at about half 8
IIRC

My results day advice is write stuff down now. Clearing phone numbers of universities, course names/numbers. How to apply for accommodation at those universities. Email addresses etc because on the day the websites might be unusable.

We, and especially eighteen year olds, are so used to being able to google everything that when you can’t it’s a bit of a surprise.

How did that work ? Are you in the uk ?

@SugarMiceInTheRain DD had her offer changed to unconditional beginning of July, just days before the clearing opened.

English embargo is only starting this Friday.
Scotland already had their results and embargo for them was a week before that.

Dd got her offer at 7.45am and results at 8am.

And my advice to parents and students if you get rejected is to not panic, you have options - yes you can go through clearing, there’s lots of places so they will want you, you can call the university that rejected you (especially if advertised clearing grades were similar to what you got) and ask for reconsideration and you can take a year out and reapply with grades for next year

I think (but happy to be corrected) that for the last couple of years unis haven't been allowed to send acceptance emails before UCAS opens at 8.00. Two years ago DC got emails from the uni and from UCAS just after 8.00, but couldn't access the UCAS website for about 20 mins. Results were not available from school until a couple of hours later but it's different for different schools. Four years prior to that older DC's school released results onto their own portal at 6.30 so they knew they had got in at that point.

Last year my DS logged into his UCAS account at 8am and saw that he had been accepted into his first choice University, then he went back to bed. He went into school to get his actual A level results a few hours later - no emails at his school, he had to go in personally. I was pleasantly surprised that he got immediate access to UCAS at 8 as I'd heard stories of the website crashing in previous years, but it was really straightforward for DS thankfully.
The advice our school gave re clearing was to have a list of places you'd be interested in and the phone numbers ready in advance and to take them with you to school so the staff could help if necessary. The quicker off the mark you can be the more options you're likely to have so it makes sense to give some thought to the possibilities in advance.
Good luck to all those waiting - it seems simultaneously a lifetime and about 5 mins ago that we were in the same position!

Our son first had an email from the university accommodation dept at 7am, congratulating him and giving details of when he could move into halls and which block he’d been allocated.

If accepted and all is well, fabulous!

if not then a) clearing b) consider in conjunction with teachers whether it’s worth doing an expedited appeal

Schools and colleges will have staff in to help on the day.

Thank you op for the thread. We haven't a clue here either. Best of luck to the yp's.