5 choices.....

[hmmnotsure]

Hello

Thrashing around with DS trying to pick 5 UCAS choices. Trying to be strategic but in order to do that need the following info, anyone know where we might get it?

• which courses are oversubscribed at which unis?
• which courses at which unis are usually in Clearing?
• how you know which unis might offer a grade drop on results day?

The occasional uni offers up this info eg Manchester , on their course page by entry requirements but can't find the info for most.

Should I have been checking last summer for what was in clearing then?!

So your dd applies to a university that you say is very popular with people of her exact demographic and that’s super. My ds applies to universities that have a very diverse demographic and he’s the one not branching out? Ok then.

There is NOTHING wrong with wanting to go to a large diverse university if that’s what you prefer. Can’t believe people are arguing otherwise (or citing Bristol as a small, one university town when it clearly isn’t).

I won’t be further justifying my child’s university options, they are barely my business let alone anyone else’s. fwiw he looked at Bristol, it looks delightful, he has an uncle there, it has a contextual offer system wider than the ocean, but like Exeter, quite far down the league table for his subject.

Looking at entry requirements on discover uni shows previous grades people got in with. Please remember if people did 4 levels it will push those ucas scores up. Use it to consider how many were let in under the grades advertised instead - Remember some might be via access courses as mature students. Also some sample sizes are small so possibly not accurate.

Due to covid those statistics have limited value.
eg before 2019 the highest proportion of students admitted who had met or exceeded their offer at Bath Uni in any one year was 75%.
This summer the figure was 93%.
We cannot be certain what 2022 will be like, but I would suggest it will be more like 2021 than 2019 and earlier.

Sorry. I did not mean to criticise you. DC need to choose where they think they will enjoy themselves.

All I was trying to say is that Universities are large and you can choose who you hang out with. Some groups will be loud, but it does not take long to discover that there are plenty of other quieter people.

DS had a good friend at LSE who was from a village Wales and who chose London because he wanted to be with others of his ethnicity. I think it is quite common.