questions for those working in admissions

[thelonelyones]

could anyone, ideally someone who works in admissions, explain how contextual applicants are separated from standard applicants?
Would they look first at who has the standard entry requirement and decide who gets an UC or C offer, and then move onto looking at the contextual applicants?
Or would they look at the contextual applicants first?
Is there some sort of spreadsheet where they filter out those who have the right grade/subject requirement or what?
Does a set number of places have to be offered to contextual applicants?
We are in Scotland if that helps, and she wants to do primary teaching. She has 5 Highers at BBBCC including H English at B and has N5 Maths. She's appealing 2 subject grades.

Hi, OP -

I am a former admissions tutor.

I am not aware of any central policy about how to handle applications from those eligible from contextual offers. In my School we neither prioritise nor deprioritise them.

We have a very high offer and therefore a very high contextual offer. However the problem is that we don’t get as many applicants we can make the contextual offer to as we would like. So we are usually happy to be able to do that

And we have fairly competitive entry. I would think that outside of the most competitive programmes this is how it works, but that is only a guess

PS Yes, our admissions admin team take the first look at applications. They can see who is eligible for a contextual offer. Anyone who doesn’t have the necessary subjects, or whose predicted grades are too far off their offer (whether that offer us contextual or not) is rejected at thus stage.

’Too far off’ can sometimes have variable meanings, and any complex application is immediately referred to an admissions tutor.