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Error on ucas

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Pandabox · 18/01/2025 11:40

Hi there
I'm looking for some advice regarding my daughter's UCAS application.
She has applied independently as we live overseas. She applied just before Christmas.
Since then she has had enquiries from two different universities asking her to confirm what BAC results she has. We thought this would be BAC French results as they take them a year early. But I just checked her application and can see she put the dates 2022-2024 for her current school, which suggests she left last year and therefore has done her bac.
However, in her personal statement she clearly says she is currently still at school, as did her referee, a teacher, who added predicted grades.
This applies that these haven't been read.
Should she email admissions at each university to explain error ?
Thanks for any advice.

OP posts:
poetryandwine · 18/01/2025 19:21

Hi, OP -

Any mistakes to do with qualifications can be amended via UCAS by submitting a Qualifications Amendment Form. ( I may have the name slightly wrong). However both UCAS and I, a former admissions tutor, agree that DD should also contact each university directly.

It is best if she can reach the relevant admissions team, eg School of Chemistry, but if she cannot the closer she can get, the better. So the admissions team in eg the Faculty of Physical Sciences is next best, and the University admissions team is the most general.

This is just to help with efficiency. As long as DD includes her UCAS number and the name and UCAS designation of the degree programme, everything will be fine.

LittleBigHead · 18/01/2025 20:58

However, in her personal statement she clearly says she is currently still at school, as did her referee, a teacher, who added predicted grades.
This applies that these haven't been read.

When UCAS forms come to each university, there will be staff checking that each application meets the basic requirements, before they are consider in a second selection process undertaken by academic staff.

If the grades weren't where the person making the initial administrative cull of the UCAS forms would expect them to be, the personal statement wouldn't be read, because the application would stop at this first stage.

The PS is read at a later stage generally.

THe first selection process is simply checking that the requirements of the application (grades, references etc) are there & meet the required ballpark for an offer.

Follow @poetryandwine 's advice about correcting the error.

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