Slowest and fastest Unis for making offers

[JesusWeptLady]

I wondered if people could let me know which universities are quick with making offers?

I've gathered from recent threads that the slow ones include LSE, Durham, Edinburgh. Are there other really slow ones?

It would be great to know. My kids will be applying next autumn and we'll avoid some of the ones that take months to reply, I think.

I think some of it also depends on the strength of application in some places. Although some all Astar candidates get rejected at the last minute, many places offer to the strongest first.

It’s the subject as much as the university. Often economics, PPE, maths, computer science can be really slow as popular courses. For my DC the slowest offers last year were Durham and Warwick.

Contextual offers are often very quick, they seem to be plucked out and processed separately.

It depends on course and when apply in some cases. The super competitive courses with low offer rates c 5% often come out much later. LSE Economics is just rejecting so far including lots of 4 A star candidates. Oxford is Jan 9th. Cambridge c Jan 24th. Bristol Economics offers around 80% people who applied in early round got offers, after that appear to be holding. History is less competitive so may well hear quicker, some subjects people hear very quickly. You can find offer rate online and Student Room has threads of when people heard for universities though some on there are fake.

Even with your update OP it's frankly not a factor I would give any weight to.

But anyway - my experience - DD had all her offers before Christmas, inc Birmingham and Warwick (for humanities).

DS2 applied late (about this time of year) and by end Jan had offers from Newcastle, Leeds and Nottingham - had to wait a while for Loughborough tho (for science).

Friend's DD (history) waited so long for Durham that she gave up and went to York instead. No idea if she got an offer or just cancelled her application.

Agree that in many places it is subject dependent. And it varies so much that that's another reason I wouldn't factor it in tbh.

@cary
We are from the UK but live in California - so the kids are also going to be applying locally. There's different dates for acceptances which puts some pressure on the process.

sorry, @clary

Durham, Ed and St A are all slow but there is variation based on course and of course contextual and international students often hear earlier.

Dc got offers from Ed and Durham around Christmas/NY last year but for a lower demand subject. Gave up on St A by April as had decided preferred elsewhere so withdrew in order to accept one of the others as firm.

DC applied for history at Manchester last yr and got an offer through quickly. Bristol were slower but not excessively so - probably a wait of 6 weeks to 2 months.