University offers for 2018? (Part 1)

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OK, I know I'm a bit early, but let the hand-holding begin...

Come and join us if you (and your DC) are about to start the UCAS process in September - applying for a place in 2018.

I've got DS1, who wants to do Computer Science in 2018. Looking at various Russell Group unis and maybe Oxbridge.

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Offer no2 in from Lancaster AAB yay! with an A in English- I’m also a 6th form teacher and a few of my students have had Lancaster offers today so they must be back from reading week 😂

Congrats, Lucycat

I had to smile at your name. We used to have a Lucycat.

Fifthtimelucky - great name for a cat, sadly Lucycat is no longer with us,we now have 2 marauding big black boycats but Lucy was my MN name 12 years ago when I joined and I still miss her 😻

Interesting to read below that some standard offers are higher this year than last - when so many courses were in clearing this year. Presumably not those courses!

And I suppose then there are the reports that applications are higher than ever, so maybe that means the universities can set higher offers as well.

DD submitted her application last week (so not an early applicant) and got an unconditional back 2 days later. It's currently her second favourite so we'll have to see what else comes in. She is thrilled as she was worried that she would get no offers as she has chosen a very popular course.

Ah that’s brilliant news xmaskitkat, congratulations to your DD!

DD has received an offer from Cardiff, her first choice, a conditional offer of AAB! Now just got to get the grades ...

It’s lovely to read of so many happy dc, congratulations to them!

Offer from York now too so DD very happy with that. Has decided to withdraw her application to Manchester as it was fifth choice and she’s realised it’s a pretty long way to go from us for the interview, if she really doesn’t think she wants to go there anyway. Getting very nervous about the Cambridge aptitude test on Thursday so it’s all a bit tense here . Congratulations Lucycat and christmaskitkat and thanks to all of you for keeping me company through this, very grateful to have you around!

Yippee - Am currently in York after having visited the uni yesterday. Congrats to your daughter on her offer.

Congrats to all the kids receiving offers.

DD has just had an offer from Bath, but it is a high one at AAA, so probably won't take the risk. We want to book in for some offer holder days now, does anyone know if parents are allowed in to these? I am wondering whether to mobilise her father to go or not.

Bath allow parents in for the offer holders open day. I don’t know about others.

DD is off for an interview day in Birmingham today. Parents are invited too, but have a completely different programme for the day - even lunch is separate. I imagine offer holder days to be similar.

Good luck to her Inchy!

Inchy, my DS went to Birmingham for an applicants day yesterday as well, I wonder if it was for the same subject?

DDs day in Birmingham yesterday was long, and she's shattered. Up at 6 this morning to get to York for her interview there. She didn't enjoy the interview at all, because she didn't know all the answers, and she hates, not knowing the answers! Plenty of time for her to catch up with homework and have breakfast on the train there though.

She's starting to get really stressed that other people in school (always the super confident ones!) have had offers from the same place and course she has applied to, and the one she wants most, but she hasn't. At least Birmingham have promised the offer within a week. It will be so good for her to have something at least.

DD now has 4 offers in- 2 unconditionals from Birmingham and Lancaster ABB from Sheffield if she gets a B in her EPQ and AAB from Leeds with an A in English Lit and an A in her EPQ. She’s been surly at the variation in offers, especially as they all seemed very similar for their standard offers.

Now let’s see what Oxford think 😂 I think she prefers the modern course at Leeds tbh but those unconditionals are the equivalent of dangling pizza in front of my pop punk dd.

Quite glad I wasn’t bright enough (or hard working enough) to have to make these decisions.....

*surprised of course not surly.... 😊

DD is indeed surly at her lack of offers Lucycat I mean, I say she is sadder stressed, but it most definitely manifests itself as surly.

sad or ffs, not sadder. Bloody autocorrect.

Haha! I have a surly one too!

Ds1 is starting to become despondent. He is surrounded by dc with offers/interviews and reading about these being made to other hopefuls for the same courses.

In the meantime he is still being processed and has yet to hear anything. I've told him it doesn't mean anything and he knows that it's just the system (he meets criteria to progress so shouldn't be an issue), it doesn't stop them worrying though.

Fingers crossed heehaws something soon, Little.

Thanks Leeds. Its competitive but on paper he's a good candidate. He just has to wait it out.
I realised tonight that he hasn't read the thread about early v late applications so didn't know they won't run out of places before they read his. He was happier once I'd explained.
It's always the little details that catch us out.