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?

OP, there is no point to your constant name changes. Your posting style and the questions that you pose are very recognisable at this stage. You particularly need to stop posting threads about reapplying through UCAS next year and how or whether they may check for proof of your exam results. On one particular thread, someone has helpfully linked you to some similar threads on the same subject, seemingly not realising that they were your threads as well just under a different name!

They knew. We all know. We can follow the same poster on TSR, Reddit etc too, as they use identical titles.

Did the OP have any family? I can't imagine allowing my 18 year old to piss about like this. Someone must be paying for her to lay about the place doing nothing useful and resitting/ hoping for a different outcome instead of just getting on with it.

iirc op is adopted and not living in the happiest of circumstances. However they have funded an extra year of resits privately and appear keen for her to move on.

To be fair to OP, one year to resit was pretty reasonable and made a big difference to her grades, for which she probably worked pretty hard rather than laying about.

It's the lack of clarity as to her next step that must be frustrating.

Oh totally re the resits with extra time. What's not fair enough is missing the Oxford deadline, whinging about it for a year, believing they're more entitled to a place than people who already have them, talking about trying to fraudulently apply, ignoring the excellent offer they have and not making any decision at all.

I feel sorry for the parents.

Oh Surely as a 'looked after child' OP should get a contextual offer? Is that not a thing at Oxbridge? It is offered automatically. I suspect there is something else going on here. Not sure what though.

Oxbridge does not do contextual offers. They use contextual information in deciding who to make offers to, but the same offer condition applies.

But the OP was offered a place at Cambridge- on the foundation year!

She HAS an offer for a Cambridge foundation course which many people would give their back teeth for but which she seems to feel is “beneath” her. She is determined that only Oxford is good enough, although she actually missed the deadline for application through her own doing. I can’t remember the exact details but these threads have been running for quite some time with lots of people giving sensible and considered advice which she continues to ignore.

I didn’t realise that according to others she is also posting the same questions on various other forums as well.

Which is specifically aimed at those who have been in difficult or disadvantaged circumstances, to redress such inequalities and develop social confidence and study skills. However it seems the op’s additional needs mean they are not sufficiently self aware to see how that might be the best route forwards available for them and cannot take on board advice.

It might be more correct at this stage to say they HAD an offer for the foundation course. We don’t know if it is still ‘live’ as they would probably have had to accept the place a while ago.

Indeed. What a waste if that is the case.

To the contrary, it will (hopefully!) now go to someone deserving who will grab it with both hands and make the most of the amazing opportunity that it is. It would have been totally wasted on OP.

Courses may start but the first week or two is more about orientation, easing students in, helping them adapt from school to uni. So generally unis will let students join courses up to three weeks into the first term (I work in a uni), especially if they have prior experience (so if have done some higher learning before).

Not Cambridge from my memory. Saying that, they may do for the foundation year as they probably need more scaffolding.

2 weeks is a quarter of the first term.

I would expect at least a quarter of the first term to be needed to settle in. But I wouldn’t expect new students to join after that as new students would also need to settle in and you would be pretty much up to speed by then.

Maybe in other institutions, I had a language test in my first week...it really was in at the deep end.

I am sure it felt it. I am also sure the university thought you were all ‘settling in’. The language test would have been part of that. Settling in does not mean ‘easy’. Four weeks into term the expectations would be that you knew what you were doing, what preparations needed to be done, level of work you needed to do, etc. The first couple of weeks you would have been given more direction and probably cut some slack even if it didn’t feel like it. Even setting aside the work you did in the first couple of weeks, if you had just come in at week three then I am sure you would have found the expectations much more overwhelming than you did when you arrived in week one.

A fair point!

Either way, the OP needs to make a decision. As the later it gets, even if she does go, she won't have mentally adjusted to it.