firm and insurance before all offers are in?

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DD has been offered a place at Cambridge, which will be her firm choice on UCAS. She also has offers from three other universities she applied to - and knows which one she wants to put for her insurance...

There's one university that she hasn't heard back from yet, but she's sure that she doesn't want to insure with this one. Does she need to wait for all offers to be in until she puts her choices into UCAS?

Imagine that she'll hear from the final choice over the next month or two, so perhaps there's no sense in rushing? Does it matter how quickly you put your firm/insurance choices in - or do all universities just expect it before the deadline?

Thanks

It doesn’t matter when you do it, so long as it’s before deadline.

Is she not attending any offer holder days at her non Camb choices, to help her firm up her decision? You’d usually wait till you’d done that.

Check the accommodation at her likely insurance to see it thats first come first served or anything. If not and she’s not going to any offer holder days there’s no reason not to do it now, but my advice would be to wait till Easter hols. The offers are in, tell her to have a break from thinking about it!

She would need to withdraw her application for the 5th university if she wanted to firm/insure before hearing from them.

Thanks both! @AelinAG - I think the point is, she’s reached her decision already, so the question was more about if there any urgency to update firm and insurance right now even though she’s still waiting for one of the universities (that happened to be the one she was least keen on!) to make a decision…. I guess it doesn’t matter though if she’s not allowed to update the form until all offers are in, as @JessyCarr says. There must be lots of others in the same boat…

She can either withdraw from he outstanding uni or wait, doesn't matter either way.