Can you move straight to the ‘full’ degree if your grades end up being much higher?

[RoccosGirl]

DD was predicted below what she’d need for child nursing at her dream university, so applied for the course with foundation year - and has been offered a place. Now to complicate things her latest mocks have predicted she will get grades high enough for the full degree.

If this comes to pass, will there be any chance of her skipping the foundation year? The uni state that if you apply for the full course and don’t get the grades they will automatically offer you the foundation year. But I’m guessing it doesn’t work the other way round?

Dd was going through a rough time during the mocks preceding predicted grades for uni. I always knew she was capable of higher grades but the school wouldn’t budge. Just seems such a shame to spend that extra year (and debt!) unnecessarily

Thanks in advance!

Hi, OP -

An interesting question. I think your best best is to contact the admissions tutors for the degree programme - not the admissions tutors for the Foundation Year, who might be different and interested in retaining your DD - directly. Good luck

PS Spoken as a former admissions tutor!

Agree, your daughter should contact the admissions tutor. I can’t see why they wouldn’t let her on if she gets the grades as long as there is capacity

Thank you both. I’ll get DD to email - there might only be a general ‘admissions queries’ email address but will get her to search!

She did have to pass the same interview etc as she would have done for the full degree as it’s assumed you’ll go straight from the FY to year one.