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?

So bite the bullet and finally go to uni while you have a chance! What happens if you don’t get another offer, a waste of three years and not much to show for it? Or if you do and it fails to meet expectations so you drop out?

That’s not a very attractive trait

because a few others, who you consider equivalent to you, did so.

She's convinced they are inferior though. Just like others on the Cambridge Foundation course.

I am completely bamboozled by the thought that someone would turn down a fully funded foundation year in favour of waiting around for a review when, even if it is upheld, they will still have a year to fill whilst their application to a different university is processed.

I am also amazed that someone who wants to get into the legal profession is considering committing fraud, especially such an easily discoverable fraud (universities don’t take your word for it for exam results) which could cause regulators to bar them. And putting so much identifiable information online about their plans to do so.

But why resentment? He got a place at a different uni (Oxford) for a different subject (ppe) with different grades to your first set (Abb not bbb) AND Cambridge gave you a great second chance with the foundation year offer - not everyone who got bbb would get such a chance and maybe those young people would resent YOU for getting it.

You are not hard done by here

You need to get over that because he won’t be the only one you come across to whom you would consider yourself superior but is doing better. Life is hard enough without looking for resentment.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Same. Baby Reindeer vibes.

Personally, a great big yawn.

So stop doing gap years?
Go to Cambridge?
Settle in, knuckle down, show them what you're made of...

Seems you were right 😀 and she hasn’t ever actually applied to Oxford, (but resents everyone who did and got in without perfect grades)

Have you booked a slot for LNAT yet?

Board OP? Thought the kids had gone back to sleep

Did you read this article featuring George Abaraonye or just read his linkedin profile?

https://www.cherwell.org/2025/06/13/oxford-union-town-hall-tt25-meet-the-candidates/

There's enough information in there to be able to draw a conclusion as to why he was "let in" to Oxford having "missed his grades" (that's your assumption, he might have had a lower offer in the first place).
Also from the article, you can see that he has made the most of the opportunity he has been given by fully participating in university life and therefore they were definitely right to admit him.

You, on the other hand, have been given a fantastic opportunity to go to Cambridge and do a foundation year (also based on the fact you had extenuating circumstances like George) but you don't want to take that opportunity and would prefer to sit in your room complaining about others being given opportunities.

George is clearly a very impressive young man.

The OP? Not so sure.

Really interesting article about both the candidates @ormiwtbte

Maybe but his reported response to the murder of Charlie Kirk, a man who debated him only a few months ago, is despicable and he should be removed for that.

That's as maybe, but it's still irrelevant to the OP believing she deserves a place at a university she hasn't even applied to and is seemingly not a fit candidate for.

Should we be removing people from their jobs for unrelated opinions which aren’t discriminatory or inciting hate? Don’t we have free speech?

this is someone who met and debated with Charlie Kirk and who made these comments in messages on instagram (apart from a public comment which said ‘loooool’). He’s allowed an opinion and if that doesn’t interfere with his job then why should he lose it? He’s not saying we should kill people like Charlie.

It aas irrelevant to this discussion as any mention of him.

God, no, don’t lie on an application - that will inevitably come back to bite you and undermine your integrity and credibility.

The institutions you’re considering want resilient problem-solvers who demonstrate capacity for higher order reasoning. Admissions processes examine many different attributes and achievements. These are weighted differently across a wide range of candidates. Comparison is useless and will lead you nowhere worthwhile.

A ongoing fixation on irrelevant trivialities, alongside misplaced and rudimentary notions of fairness - ngl, this candidate is not sounding the most natural fit for the study of law! That’s not to say you won’t do well once you eventually get there, your horizons will broaden for a start, but at the moment you appear to be totally in your own way. Why not take the extraordinary chance you do have and move on?

🍀

Oh fully agree there. The OP brought him up, and he's not relevant at all to whether she applies or not. Total red herring.

@MO6 what is your plan if you apply to Oxford and they don’t offer you a place? You do acknowledge that it is at least a possibility, even if you do end up with three A stars?

I do think it’s for the best that you turn down the Cambridge Foundation year. It really should go to someone who will seize the opportunity for all its worth, and who hopefully has a chance of succeeding at degree level there.

OP - grade information entered on UCAS is checked as a matter of course. If you make a fraudulent application then you WILL get found out and in the theoretical world where you were to have an offer it would be retracted.

Making a fraudulent application for Law is particularly daft.