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Exeter offers : incompetent or arrogant?

620 replies

TalkinPeace · 25/03/2016 22:42

DD submitted her form last October
Exeter have still not had the courtesy to send an offer (the other four Unis all have)
when phoned they said

  • no offers have been issued (bollocks as DDs friends have theirs)
  • offers will be made by end of December (bollocks as its now late march)
  • offers will be made right after the UCAS cut off date (bollocks as it was in January)
  • offers will be made by the end of March ........

Exeter are arrogant liars
the word needs to go round

OP posts:
LittlehamHums · 06/04/2016 20:18

Have I strayed into some sort of alternate universe? Grin

Still hoping to collect my £10 on Friday.

Kaddy · 06/04/2016 20:31

It has to be any day now. I think your £10 might be safe.

I'm waaaaaay to invested in this thread. I've checked Exeters Twitter, Facebook and the relevant StudentRoom thread. Grin. There are other students who are still waiting. Someone claims to have got an offer yesterday.......

bojorojo · 06/04/2016 21:59

No resentment whatsoever! Why would I resent anything?

Admittedly, the open day we attended there was awful. DD did MFL and even Exeter tend to want MFL students so had she applied I suspect she might have received an offer, but we will never know for sure. Exeter was a really popular choice at her school and it suited some girls very well. However lovely grounds were not really a factor in DD choosing a university and it did feel like a huge boarding school. DD was more than happy with the offers she did get from the universities she decided to apply to.

butteredmuffin · 06/04/2016 23:54

but the little arrogant toe rags are still sitting on their hands

Oh my.

I am cringing with embarrassment on behalf of the OP's poor DD. I'm sure if she could read her mother's posts on this thread she would die of shame. Unless she suffers from the same lack of self-awareness and sense of entitlement.

RhodaBull · 07/04/2016 11:45

When is the absolute last day a university can give an offer? I shall return at 4.55pm on that day to see if TiP's dd has an offer as it seems Exeter are going to hold out till then...

quit2dis · 07/04/2016 11:58

They have until 5 May since she applied by the Jan 15 deadline.

Applications for accommodation start next week, but there's no reason they have to give an offer before then. (And of course since she's clearly in the "maybe" pile it is possible she won't get an offer at all, if they already have lots of firm acceptances.)

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 07/04/2016 13:56

It is annoying about the accommodation - would be fairer not to open it until 5 May. DS has firmed (not Exeter!) elsewhere and registered for his preferred accommodation when it opened because his mum nagged him to be on the case

Noitsnotteatimeyet · 07/04/2016 14:48

Last year ds got his Exeter offer on 20th April - his was late as he'd only just managed to get his UCAS form in by the January deadline

He ended up getting a very generous offer and is now very happily studying there

We didn't hear a peep out of Exeter until the offer came but it wouldn't have occurred to me to get in touch with the admissions department...

HocusCrocus · 07/04/2016 22:25

Littleham, so the £10 relying on tomorrow Grin

quit2dis - I do not have a Dc in this situation but out of interest when you say "They have until 5 May since she applied by the Jan 15 deadline. " I assume that anyone who had applied before the October 15th deadline would just come under that same banding / consideration.

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 07/04/2016 22:33

STILL nowt??

My kids are 6 years off this but every time this thread pops up in active convos I'm COMPELLED to click

at least I haven't got it in my watch list yet

lljkk · 07/04/2016 22:43

I want Klaxon calls in _Chat when TIP's DD finally gets the answer. Maybe we can have a fireworks celebration for her, either way? Wink

quit2dis · 07/04/2016 23:04

I do not have a Dc in this situation but out of interest when you say "They have until 5 May since she applied by the Jan 15 deadline. " I assume that anyone who had applied before the October 15th deadline would just come under that same banding / consideration.

Yes, because Oct 15th is not a deadline for non-Oxbridge, non-medic courses, i.e. whether you apply for such courses before October is irrelevant as all applications received before Jan 15 must be treated equally. Many decisions are made by 31 March, but quite a few decisions come in through April.

BTW if on May 5th you don't have an offer for a course, the track for that course automatically shows unsuccessful.

HocusCrocus · 08/04/2016 00:34

Thanks for that quit2dis.

GigotdAgneau · 08/04/2016 06:25

My child is currently studying at Exeter* and applied in her gap year, with her results, in the October before the academic year she started there. Out of curiosity, I have found her UCAS offer confirmation letter, which I see is dated 10th April, but that will have only been after she confirmed she wanted the place. I think she may have received her unconditional offer from Exeter in the February, though, I can't remember as she was travelling at that point. It was the last place to reply to her application, but it certainly didn't occur to us to nag the Admissions Office about giving her an offer. Bristol, on the other hand, told her not to bother to even apply as her grades were too low for the course she wanted to do.
*She says it's vair, vair, vair middle-class. Not a surprise.

scotsgirl64 · 08/04/2016 13:04

i'm waiting find out what the outcome of this thread is! I have several academic friends and i don't think they look on it too favourably if parents keep pestering the uni!....what will you be like when there are essay/deadlines?

Coffeewith1sugar · 08/04/2016 19:04

Feel so compelled to look on this thread to see the outcome, finale. I feel your frustration TP, its been a very long wait, surely they won't reject her having taken so long to decide, hope they give her a lower grade offer. Everything crossed for your DD.

Original poster
TalkinPeace · 08/04/2016 21:49

Offer arrived today
BUT
for a course DD had not applied for Confused
and without grades on it Hmm

She has to phone them on Monday to work out what he heck is going on
as the building the offered course will be based in is still a building site Grin

We actually drove through the campus today - Exeter is a gorgeous place and the campus is fab
but chances are that the number one choice will be firmed up next week and the wild card unconditional will go in as 2nd.

I'm not looking forward to going through the whole process again in two years ...

OP posts:
lljkk · 08/04/2016 21:55

ha!! I'm sounding a Klaxon!!
But that is a really weird result. Do her form get miscoded??

Coconutty · 08/04/2016 21:57

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Kaddy · 08/04/2016 21:57

Phew, thank goodness for that. The wait was killing me Wink Well done, TPs DD for getting an offer. Star. Regardless of whether she accepts the offer or not it's still nice to know that they want her.

Not specifying grades is, umm, unusual. Confused Perhaps you could interpret that as an unconditional Wink Grin,

Good call Littleham. You get to keep your £10 Grin

Kaddy · 08/04/2016 21:59

BTW was the course she was offered similar to the one she had applied for? If it has overlapping modules it might be easy to switch course once she was there.

Original poster
TalkinPeace · 08/04/2016 22:01

The offer is quite "clear" : the course she applied for is full
so they have offered her another one that normally has higher entry requirements but on the same entry requirements - we think
by no means unconditional
but doable

PS To those slagging me off for nagging : two phone calls in 6 months to the admissions team is not nagging. And DD's three emails to them do not add up to nagging either.

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Kaddy · 08/04/2016 22:09

Lol, Sorry I wasn't clear but I was joking about the unconditional Blush

The new course isn't at the Penryn campus is it? Confused

Two quick polite phone calls over six months is perfectly ok in my books. I'd have done the same myself without a second thought. I bet they took a couple of minutes. I don't get the arse'y comments.

Original poster
TalkinPeace · 08/04/2016 22:14
Grin No, it will be based in the new building www.exeter.ac.uk/livingsystems/ so its a bit of an unknown quantity. But the grades are still not on UCAS .... I'll have the final answers by the end of next week.
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Sunshowercap · 08/04/2016 22:15

You know, your snide comments about new buildings is uncalled for. Most good universities are investing and building new teaching facilities. Exeter is at least investing in quality new teaching facilities for students.

Your posts come across as quite redolent of sour grapes.