If A level grades change, do unis get the new grades?

[hpenvy]

My DS's results were lower than expected and he scraped into his insurance uni with grades at the bottom end of what they have accepted in previous years. One of his grades has now gone up following a review. Will his uni know about it? It doesn't matter on the face of it, because he has a place, but it would make him feel better if he knew they knew about the upgrade.

As a lecturer I’d say I don’t think so. Once you’re in, you’re in. And as a lecturer I don’t even know what grades my students got. I mean I could look it up on the dashboard if I wanted to but I never have done. So some admin person in admissions knows but I don’t. Guess this might vary from university to university 🤷‍♀️

DD had her grades upgraded and we never told the university.

This year the UCAS website says that candidates must notify universities of the outcome of the appeal. There is no mention of UCAS involvement.

I have a dim memory from my stint as an admissions tutor of confirming appeal results via UCAS, but presumably not until after notification of a successful appeal from the candidate.

I don’t think most of the lecturers know what anyone got tbh. They also don’t care so you need to talk him out of his anxiety about people knowing he’s worthy… they don’t care what he did before he arrived just how he works after.

Lecturers could not care less, OP! In the unlikely event that anyone asks, of course FS should give the new mark or grade confidently and without a second thought.

University is truly a fresh start.

Best wishes to DS

Since either universities or UCAS now have to populate the 'grades people on this course actually got' section, then it might be just polite to ask someone if they woukd like this info for that purpose?

Having said that, the 'what our students came to us with bit for DS2's course for his intake, had a slightly lower 'top of range' set of A level results than he got (no appeals etc involved), so I'm not sure that it would really matter too much.