How does this work for Late university Clearing?

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If Clearing 2025 will end in Late-October, yet mostcourses begin in September, how does this work?

Could I ask for a place through clearing for a coursethat’s already begun if it’s still advertised? If so, when I enrol, what happens? No Fresher’s week; no course induction - just straight teaching?

Technically it is probably possible but unwise and not straightforward. The first couple of weeks are often allowed for changes of course/options, less often uni unless dropping out,

A lot of course start in October. Some start in January. Otherwise yes you start a bit late.

Where are you trying to go now? Oxford won't be in clearing!

You might also struggle to get accommodation unless you plan to stay at home this time.

Yes you can apply and start after it’s begun. It would be just up to you to find out how to catch up but it would be very doable.

Obviously there wouldn’t be a freshers week or a course induction.

Oh….🤦‍♀️

I did wonder if it was same op! Popular unis and top rated courses will not be available now, if they ever were in Clearing.

You can start a little late, I know people who transferred from other unis or changed courses in the first few weeks of term. Usually easy enough to catch up at that stage.

I just saw someone on TikTok get accepted to Oxford Law this year after getting A-Star, A-Star, B and missing their offer without any extenuating circumstances. (I know as I asked them). What do you think of this?

You can still join until two weeks after enrolment date.

Did you apply to Oxford and miss your offer?

So you didn't take the Cambridge foundation year offer? For God's sake OP. You are not going to Oxford. Get over it.

What did you get for your A levels?

I think it’s bullshit. However severe your ND is, you surely must know that people lie, particularly on SM. How on earth are you going to manage a —fictional— Law career if you can’t work that out.

But you didn't apply to Oxford! Sometimes there is more to getting accepted than grades alone. The margin between applicants is very narrow. Many really good candidates are not even interviewed or rejected afterwards. Contextual offers, applying from state sector or disadvantaged backgrounds, winning essay competitions and prizes, attending pre courses, doing really well in the interview process or pretests, even nepotism may make a difference.

Stop looking for injustices and chasing rainbows. You have a place at Cambridge on foundation year as a result if your particular circumstances and exam results, use it to forward yourself, not dwell on something that is not currently and may never be on offer and stand still.

I think the OP has not applied to Oxford twice now. And is about to complete the hat trick. Take the Cambridge offer, you are lucky they offered you a place at all. If you were better than the foundation year they would have offered it. They didn't. Take the opportunity.

1. Have your grades changed since results day?

2. If not, you don't meet the standard offer.

3. Tiktok isn't real. If this person did get a place they would have smashed their interviews and admission tests already and persuaded the admissions team in person that they were a strong candidate, after applying with a minimum of AAA predicted grades.

4. You have threads all over platforms asking if you can fraudulently apply to Oxford, UCL and even Manchester /MMU without anyone knowing, but you won't accept the sensible advice you are given. You must declare all no your actual A level results at each sitting and not lie about what you are currently doing.

5. If you would prefer to write off another year, find a university which might take a risk on you, get a job for a year and put the foundations in place to go to university, not just talk about it.

What I think is that you need to stop posting endless numbers of questions on Mumsnet, seemingly ignoring all the sound advice that people provide, and seek some real world counselling/support.

You need to stop wasting your time and everyone else’s.

That’s what I think, but of course you’ll ignore it just as you ignore all the advice that people provide.

And so it goes on.

It's possible that the Oxford law tutors, having interviewed this candidate and seen their LNAT, decided that they had enough evidence of their excellence to forgive the B grade, especially as they had exceeded the offer in the other subject. A small number of candidates do get taken despite missing the offer, because the tutors are convinced they have enough evidence from the rest of the application that the person will thrive on the course, and especially if the B grade is not in a relevant subject and the person has excelled elsewhere.

It's also possible that this person didn't feel comfortable talking about their extenuating circumstances to strangers on TikTok.

It's also possible that not everything on TikTok is real and the whole story is a fantasy.

But if you want to go to Oxford, you have to apply for the following year entry, like everyone else. You can't get in through Clearing.

The whole situation that you have created yourself is just a mess. You should have just accepted the B you got last year rather than spending a year arsing around. Presumably the result you got still isn’t what you wanted and now you have grades from two different years.

I agree that the TikTok lady is probably lying for the views.

You have spent at least eighteen months messing around with this, trying to find loop holes and people to blame.

I think that this candidate (if real) did some other amazing stuff eg great interview, LNAT, work experience etc. Plus possibly got the B in their least relevant subject (eg a star in politics, English and b in maths or something).

But it doesn’t change your position

Also - I would be astonished if this candidate was accepted via clearing, as your title implies. Even if you “just saw” the tiktok, doesn’t mean the acceptance was via clearing, though it might have been waiting for eg a discussion amongst colleges of which “near miss” candidates would be taken

If the tiktok thing is true, the candidate won't have been accepted via clearing. Clearing is a massive red herring here. The candidate will have been discussed as a 'near miss' and there will have been strong and specific reasons for disregarding the B.

There is more to University than getting on a course op. You then have to actually work to pass it. Especially a Law degree from Oxford. You seem to be incapable of doing anything but rehashing the same old arguments and refusing to take answers given to you. Will you moan your way through University and not listen to feedback or advice? Because you won't last a year at Oxbridge doing that.

The OP hasn't ever applied to Oxford. But still won't be happy unless the vice chancellor personally phones them up, then rolls out a red carpet direct to their front door.

They allegedly have an offer for the foundation year at Cambridge which they'd be well advised to take, although I believe Cambridge might come to regret it. I've been through the supervision system, and I can't see the OP hacking it.

@murasaki i believe she applied the first time that she did a levels. Not sure if she got an offer and missed it or didn’t get an offer.