Ucas / Results 2014 (carrying on Ucas Forms Sent.... thread)

[Littleham]

Thought we might need a new thread for the results...

tracey time was tight for my DCs too. So they opened an u19 account and then when the UCAS letter arrived we took it to the bank and they changed the account to a student one.

Hi, I too have 'that awful knotty feeling inside'. I'm counting the days but dreading the arrival of the 14th! In our case that begins at midnight when the STEP results are released.
Thankfully DS is away until Monday so I don't have to hide my nerves, but Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be hard.
I just want it all to be over so he can start looking forward to wherever he's going..

I just want it all to be over so he can start looking forward to wherever he's going.. Yes.

Timetraveller Same here. I think DS gets his A level and STEP results on the school website at 6am.
He is away at the moment and has a hugely busy few days coming up. Hopefully that will take his mind off for a while doesn't help me though. Then he has nothing planned for next week which means he will be doom and gloom from Sunday onwards.

Secret when DS did the last STEP exam he was given a number to log onto a website for results.
It will probably mean a sleepless night either way though, (for both of us!) as he is certain he hasn't got what he needs, and will have to wait for UCAS in the morning.
I didn't realise I would feel so stressed, and it must be so much worse for him..

Just started reading this thread and have passed on info about UCAS site opening early to my TWINS. This is a really bad time to have twins. Feel even sorrier for parents of triplets...

Roll on Thursday.

Timetraveller Just asked DS about this and checked out the website. He remembers being given the PIN but doesn't know where it is.......

Secret Oh no! I hope he finds it. Is there any other way of finding out the STEP results?
You made me panic and I've just rummaged through papers to find DS's.

Apparently they won't re-issue it. Was it on a piece of paper? What does it look like? He came back from 4 days away and has gone out again. Will have a search.
DS dumped all his papers in the corner of the room after the last exam and has refused to look at them since. That includes all the hundreds of practise papers he did as well as notebooks, text books and so on.

Yes, it's on a piece of paper with the Cambridge Assessment logo (A big A)in the top right hand corner. The heading is Confidential: Results Information.
It gives the candidate number and the PIN.
I looked on the website too, and both candidates and centres can register, so I suppose his college can also register and get his results. Although I'm sure he'd rather get them himself.
It's bound to be in his room somewhere..

Thank you TT. I can't find it so far but will look again and get him to contact exams officer asap. thank goodness you mentioned it. The tension is bad enough without finding that we have no result on results day because he is so disorganised.

Good luck! Let me know when you find it x

Good luck secret. Not easy looking for something you've never seen in a teenager's room. Pray to St Anthony. (No I don't believe it will work, but you never know.)

Twins TennyfTroon ! That must be stressful....

Does anyone know if all the universities make their decisions quickly (in time for track on Thursday)? Or are some slower than others in getting their decisions to UCAS?

Are any of them notoriously slow, as they were with offers? I have this nightmare scenario in my mind, where dd is borderline, so no decision is made & by the time one is made, all the clearing places have gone. Does this happen?

I am loving the idea of MNetters across the UK searching teenage bedrooms. Our teenager returns Friday. We have had no real communication for three weeks so keen to hear what he has been up to. Still waiting on accommodation allocation. Another missed deadline. Meanly hoping that DS gets his grades but others don't, thereby freeing up accommodation.

nightmare scenario in my mind, where dd is borderline, so no decision is made & by the time one is made, all the clearing places have gone. Does this happen? Oh Littleham more to worry about.

My nightmare is that his insurance dithers (we know he's missed his firm) and we end up too late to find anything else. Having said that DS is going to take a gap year rather than rush into an unsuitable course.

So UCAS live around 7 to 8am. Have the unis made their decisions by then? Someone up thread said they have the results a few days before?

So we could have a definite accept /reject first thing?

I have an A* in worrying. It just strikes me that one or two of the universities dithered with the offers, so they might do the same again on results day - which would make me

My teenagers bedroom is neat though, so one less hassle than the rest of you!

Ladies, ladies, exhale.... slowly... there we go. Clearing won't open until later in the day giving time for track to update. Remember that there is no limit to the >ABB students they can take and if its not a science subject, it might simply come down to how many seats there are in the lecture theatre.

Remember too that the universities will have had the results for a couple of days so it would be very unlikely for them to still be dithering by results day.

secretsquirells it was on my post that my DD firm (Southampton) told us they get the results on Sunday to give them time to consider the near misses. Same Uni also posted on their Facebook page today that their clearing vacancies will be posted on Tuesday so I guess they must make up their minds by Tuesday ( gulp) !!

tracey That's an awful thought, that they may have decided our DCs fate as early as Monday, and we have to wait until Thursday to find out!

squirrel I think the not rushing into an unsuitable course is an eminently sensible approach. DS1's firm is, I think, the same uni as your DC's, albeit a very different (humanities) course, and his insurance possibly one of Littleham's DC's choices - administratively dubious and dominated by a whopping great cathedral.

Whilst he had five offers, including an unconditional, the courses at his firm / insurance along with teaching approach and location, are for him,at the moment at least, so much better a fit than the same subject anywhere else. He's loathe therefore to try to grab something in clearing - should results not go as he hopes - and finding he has three years, and £27k + living costs, to repent at leisure over a hasty decision.

Fingers firmly crossed for next week.

Well fellow knotted mothers - how much sleep do you anticipate getting this time next week ?? I really want to sleep so I am alert/ helpful for DD if necessary and able to celebrate with her if all has gone to plan but somehow I can't see sleep being anything other than fleeting !!

Definitely fear the 'administratively dubious' thing - hope it doesn't happen.

DD is not so worried about an unsuitable course in clearing, as she always liked a number of universities (including a couple already in clearing). Her main requirement was for the more traditional language courses, as she liked those modules better.

Slightly puzzled why some universities are in clearing with the same grades advertised as before??? Don't they usually lower them?

Well - last night had a nightmare about a 'Giant Polar Bear' that savaged dc's who had not achieved grades. Woke up at 4am!

I'm much calmer this year (last year dd was waiting to get into vet school - it would've been a nightmare re-sitting to get better grades if needed and then applying again - gruelling interviews etc). Youngest ds changed his mind after getting offers so is pinning all his hopes on his firm choice. If he misses the grades (needs AAB lowered to ABB as he already has an A at AS in a particular subject) he won't go through clearing - he'll take a gap year and re-think. It was tricky choosing the course, but more tricky choosing which university he liked (he really didn't like a couple he went to - so wouldn't want to make a rash decision). This time last year I was a bundle of nerves, doing everything I could to take my mind off it and not being successful!

Good luck everyone

tracey if no one has already warned, you you get no sleep on results night because at some point between midnight and whenever UCAS get their systems to work your Dc finds out whether their firmed uni has accepted them. My older Dd came dancing in having worked at the refresh button since midnight, around 5am, after I got to sleep finally around 3, to say it had gone firm, then we were waiting to go into school at 9 , then commiserating / congratulating, then the drinking started.........

This year it is my dyslexic / dyspraxic DD and I feel after she made it round Europe inter railing for a month without losing anything, including her friends, that we have already got a lot to celebrate, maybe I will be a bit more relaxed this time