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Can I tell you about our uni/a level journey so far.

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ditavonteesed · 06/09/2022 12:55

So a level results day, 8am comes and dd gets the email from college, but her results aren't on it. Logs in to ucas and is rejected from all her choices. We get in the car and drive to college, they have no idea what is happening but are chasing it up. Dd thinks she has failed and is rather upset.

Eventually after the whole morning on the phone where no one can help us as it is not a normal situation 2 of her results came through meaning she got on the course she wanted through clearing. Yay all good, the third result came on the Monday after.
The yesterday all her friends got their enrolment emails and dd didn't get hers. We were a little concerned. I was awake a lot of the night trying to work out if we had missed some sort of confirmation or something.
Phoned enrolment line this morning to be told there was a problem with her application but they can't tell us what. Finally got through to the right people (an alarming amount of time spent on hold) to find out that while dds offer was unconditional it had been changed to next year.

Thankfully he guy on the phone was able to change it back to this year and sent us a confirmation emaiL while we were on the phone. Hopefully she will get enrolment stuff in the next few days.
We are both a little stressed out by this, I thought I had prepared for every eventuality but I had definitely not prepared for either of these. I should now relax but I am worried about what will go wrong next.
Anyone else had similar experiences? Is this normal or are we just very unlucky. I'm so glad we phoned this morning rathe than just waiting for the enrolment email.

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DahliaMacNamara · 06/09/2022 15:35

I'm glad you have the enrolment sorted out. It sounds a nightmare. I hate to ask, but what's the situation with student finance? Is that all sorted?

ditavonteesed · 06/09/2022 15:39

Weirdly it seems to be, says she'll get first payment 19th sep. god I hope so. Luckily she is actually staying at home else I can't even imagine.

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mandalala · 06/09/2022 16:36

This sounds crazy, ditavonteesed. Did you ever find out what happened to her grades on results day? Did she have to go through clearing because she lost all her 5 choices?

ditavonteesed · 06/09/2022 16:39

Never found out what happened to her grades, potentially something to do with aqa strike. And yeh she had to go through clearing as the system is automated so she got rejected from all her choices as it looked like she hadn't sat the exams.

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ditavonteesed · 06/09/2022 16:39

We just logged on to ucas to check it's all correct now. So fingers crossed

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mandalala · 06/09/2022 16:43

I hope she finally got the grades she wanted after all that?! Also, very lucky her course was in clearing. What a mess though.

Xenia · 06/09/2022 19:39

Poor her. I never heard of that happening before (and I have had 5 children go off to university). At least she has the place now but what a mess.

MarchingFrogs · 07/09/2022 00:31

Did she have to go through clearing because she lost all her 5 choices?

By this stage in the proceedings, only a maximum of two are involved, the ones from their offers that the applicant has set as their Firm and Insurance choice.

Losing all offers of five held, if it were going to happen, woukd have happened a while back, if the applicant didn't update UCAS with their responses by the relevant deadline,, which doesnt seem to have been the case here.

ditavonteesed · 07/09/2022 05:37

She lost her firm and her back up (which she didn't want anyway as changed her mind about leaving home). Don't think she ever put five in. College were trying to get her firm choice to hold her place until her grades came through but we never actually heard anything else from college until her grades came so I assume the had as much luck as me with it.

Hopefully all sorted now.

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Oblomov22 · 07/09/2022 06:12

I'm sorry. That the system which clearly failed on at least 2 counts, both robbed you, and her, of the joy and pleasure, and worse still made it more stressful than it needed to be.

Notanotherusernamenow · 07/09/2022 06:20

My view (as a senior lecturer) is don’t rush going to university. It’s a major investment in all kinds of ways.

I recommend taking a year out, working out what she wants to do, and reapplying with a year or more of work under her belt. You get one shot at student loans etc. It needs to be a careful investment, not rushed like this. She can withdraw or postpone even at this stage.

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