How does this work for Late university Clearing?

[MO6]

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?

The only thing that stopped me from Cambridge last time was my grades. I obviously did well enough in the admissions test and interviews to get a place.

But you do understand that most people with ABB wouldn’t get in to oxbridge? Otherwise the places would be oversubscribed by thousands and thousands!

And that Cambridge did help you, by offering a foundation year, probably partly in recognition of the undiagnosed issues? It’s not the university’s fault that you:your school/your parents didn’t push the case for your to get extra time the first time round.

Have you been to an open day yet?

You do know that they'll check the grades, right?

If real, I'm not sure you'd get into to the Polyversity of Neasden.

I do understand and I am grateful. It’s just that it winds me up when I see others like this George guy get things that I want without having to suffer with gap years like me and then people on this thread say that they wanted him and didn’t want me so if I have to resort to ulterior means to get what I want.

@MO6 you still enquirying about fetish head shaving videos over on reddit?

Less time indulging your kink & more time planning a future may get you further.

And Cambridge have given you a second chance now.

But you didn’t and may never have a certificate to say so. How will you prove it to them? Lying is a sure way to lose a place and if you think your future is in Law no reputable firm will give you a training contract especially if you waste time on an unproductive gap year . Remember many recent graduates/postgrad students were the Covid generation, whose A levels results got messed up, so they may not be reliable and admissions treated them differently.

But you didn’t apply.

I applied to Cambridge in the normal way and got in but they didn’t let me in because I missed my offer. I’m not complaining about missing the Oxford deadline - that’s something I regret; not something I’m complaining about as I understand that’s no-one’s fault but my own.

The gap years were your choice and/or your fault. The third one will be too.

Everything will have a weighting though - different for different subjects, probably.

As a simple example, with equal weighting, if you got 80% score for entrance test and 80% score on your interview, you might have needed perfect or near perfect grades against your offer to meet the overall requirement. But if the OU President in question got 90% interview score and 90% entrance test score, then there was more “room” for him to miss his grade offer.

This isn’t hard, Op.

I'm pretty gobsmacked that a person hears of a seismic event in the US, and their response is to look up the A level grades of someone who said something about it.

You’re going to really struggle in life.

Genuine question. What do you have to offer them?

And how will you cope in your first tutorial when your tutor and peer group criticise your work and challenge your views.

DD (not 3 A stars) had to take her A level and GCSE certificates with her.

Most people don't "suffer" with a gap year. They do something with it, even if they're resitting their A levels as well.

It’s because I had my life planned out and these gap years are sort of messing up that routine so I find it massively distressing.

Look, an ousu President who did a foundation year

www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/news/former-foundation-year-student-danial-hussain-elected-ousu-president

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

Who is going to give you a reference when your UCAS form is lying?

Thank you! That makes me feel better. But, I still can’t stop feeling resentment towards the George guy and others like him.

Malala Yousafzai will just blow your mind.

The most successful people in life are resilient, can deal with rejection and change. These are skills you need to develop OP.

We get that it’s distressing but you can’t change it by finding individual examples and somehow thinking you should magically get a place at Oxford because a few others, who you consider equivalent to you, did so.