Slowest universities to make offers...

[Cranmer]

Where are your DC still waiting to get offers (or rejections ) from?

All offers are in here, except for... LSE.

DC not expecting to hear until March. It is going to be a long wait.

Edinburgh

Bristol - waiting for Vet Med! Have heard from other 3.

Nottingham - vet med (heard from other 3). Feeling v v v lucky. 😊 Most medics don't hear anything until Feb and some will be waiting til May. For one offer.

Grandson, applied early, got offers very quickly from Leeds and Newcastle. No offer from Oxford, still waiting for Edinburgh and Durham. He is becoming more and more set on Leeds, getting worried Durham won't suit him. If he gets an offer from Durham he has agreed to go and see it, but I think a nice Open Day at Leeds has almost decided him.

DS just waiting for Durham as well (physics). Has offers from Bristol, Warwick, Loughborough and an interview at Leeds on Tuesday. His GF had an offer from Durham early January for Law. DD1 is in her second year at Durham and her offer came through mid February. I think it does seem to depend on the course (DD1 is studying MFL).

History at Durham. It is said to be a very good course, but hopefully not massively better than the other choices! At the end of the day they have to be happy to go there.

In our experience for engineering Durham and Loughborough. DH friends got offer from Durham within a week.

Durham. St Andrews and Edinburgh early for my two.

My dd is only waiting to hear from Edinburgh. She had a reduced offer from Durham for English within a week back in early December.

My daughter is waiting to hear from Southampton (although invited to an applicants open day) and Bath. She had an offer from St Andrews on Saturday.

Does anyone know when Edinburgh do start sending out offers to Rest of UK students without grades in hand?

Durham and St Andrews for one of my DT, the other DT got a Durham offer before Christmas ( both Humanities, different subject)

Just waiting for Durham here as well - all others (Manchester, Leeds, Bath & Sussex) have made offers.. Don't think Dd is really interested now as offers are all good from other places

I think it depends on the course. DS1 and several of his friends had Durham offers ages ago. But are still waiting on Edinburgh and St Andrews. DS2 is waiting on LSE and UCL who have made offers for some courses but not his.

St Andrews and LSE here as well.

DD had an offer from Durham in October for humanities. I've taken a look at the Edinburgh website and they have a MyEd system which they use to communicate progress with applications. I have a horrible feeling that DD may have ignored a log in email as she had a flurry of offers from her preferred courses. I wonder if she has logged in & checked or whether she is blissfully unaware of any info requests.

The LSE has a particular problem, though possibly shared with Edinburgh and others.

Only 25% of students come from the UK with a further 25% from the EU. Current legislation requires them to tgive equal consideration to all UK and EU applicants who apply before the January UCAS deadline. A proportion of these will not get their application forms in before January. Many London and EU students want London, not Oxbridge.

Some mature and European students will then have to sit an admissions test in February as their qualifications don't give the University sufficient information about their ability. Then and only then is the University fully able to put applicants in priority order, and as places become available, accept some and reject others.

Oxbridge does it differently with an early deadline, and a extensive (and expensive) process involving interviews and aptitude tests. Which make the University more accessible? ...Debate.

Edinburgh was first here!
Waiting on Manchester Met ( who have a reputation for being slow) and Heriot Watt.

Last year Durham was 3+ months later than everyone else for NatSci. Their offer came AFTER all their offer-holder days had happened. DD was unimpressed and following a visit to her unconditional if firmed offer place during the Easter holiday, decided that they wanted her more and accepted it. She's very happy there.

Friend’s dd apparently got an offer for biochem at Edinburgh an hour after UCAS offers closed so it sounds like they had an eye on their quotas and went as soon as all applications were in. Another friend’s dd applied for English and still not heard.

decided that they wanted her more and accepted it.

I doubt that is the case. Oversubscribed courses can be very oversubscribed. When DS was applying to LSE there were 13 applicants for every place on his course. Indeed there were 17 applicants for every place on DDs medicine course. Oxbridge and medicine have the advantage that they can start prioritising applicants from October. Durham and LSE have a statutory requirement to treat all UK and EU applicants equally and won't be able to confirm who is applying until January, indeed February once who have counted those (I think Italy is one) where school graduation certificates don't tell you much as every school graduate can go to University and filtering is done at the end of the first year. EU applications are also very hard to predict at the moment, so only the very best applicants will get an early offer.

The good advice given to DS was that he was capable of a top course, but with those sorts of ratios it was a lottery. He should apply to the top four courses and be happy with whatever offer he got. If not, take a gap year. He got one offer. One of his classmates got none, but did get Cambridge, but not LSE, the following year.

There are so many good applicants for the very sought after courses that anyone waiting until March is clearly good enough. Decisions will be made on fine vagaries of the scoring system. That said rejection is not easy. Many of these applicants will never have been rejected before, and it hurts, especially when others at school seem to walz onto the next stage effortlessly. DS had a four A* prediction including FM so there was no obvious reason why he stumbled. I am glad though that this happened when he was still at home. There have been lots of rejections since: internships, jobs, PhD applications. The point is that to get anything you need to apply, at the same time making sure you have a good plan B. Rejection happens, and it is rarely personal.

Last year's LSE figures for DS's preferred course showed 1130 applicants for around 80 offers.

I didn;t realise about the February tests for overseas applicants. Might tell this to DS as he keeps checking his mail. Though they have made some offers, just not many and none for that course, so I wonder what the criteria are for making an offer before the aptitude tests.

Still waiting to hear from Warwick on maths with statistics, the other four are in. From the sound of the comments above, I think we can expect to wait a bit longer.

Still waiting for Edinburgh (EU status) and Warwick. All other offers came within a couple of weeks of applying in October.

milliefiori, I can't find details of the additional exam on the website, so maybe they have changed the process. However the fact still remains that they really can't give offers to anyone bar exceptional applicants until they have them all in. EU students previously made up a quarter of their students, so forecasting this year could be a nightmare. My understanding is that LSE, as a relatively small University, is not keen to go above target numbers so does not want to get it wrong.

We followed Student Room on behalf of DS, indeed I think there was a twitter thread where people noted acceptances and rejections. Numbers really only got moving in March.

Horrible. None of our children deserve this additional stress in their A level year.

DS had a great time there, as he was really into his subject and felt at the centre of things. A number of his friends have, like him, gone onto do post-grad studies in the US and they remain very close.