UCAS deadline - be careful

[MrsBright]

The deadline for the initial application round (to get 'equal consideration' from Universities) is 6pm on 15 January.

The UCAS website usually gets swamped with applications on this last day. This can mean it freezes or even crashes. There is nothing more stressful than an a teenager desperately trying to submit their application on this last day and not being certain if its 'gone' or not. And watching 6pm approaching .......

SO DONT LEAVE IT TO THE LAST MINUTE. If they submit their application a few days before this deadline, they will avoid all this panic/worry.

[And remember, no teacher is going to want to write a last minute reference over Christmas, so make sure your DC gets it all sorted this week - for your own sanity.]

Just a reminder that although the deadline is 6pm, the UCAS website has been known to crash around the deadline in previous years due to the high number of people uploading statements.

If you want to get your application in for equal consideration, it would be best to send it NOW, rather than wait until this evening.

And make you keep a note of your DC's UCAS login details cos if they lose them they can't login on results day to find out if they got in.

Happened to DS1 a couple of years ago and we spent several tense hours trying to get through to a run off their feet UCAS on the phone.