Confused about accommodation for insurance choice

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I'm confused about DS's insurance choice accommodation guarantee. They say they will guarantee on-campus accommodation for insurance students, as long as they later update it to be their firm by 15th August.

But surely after results day, you can't change your firm/insurance? Or does it mean that if you don't get into your firm, you automatically get into your insurance (if you have the grades) but you have to then accept that place as firm, or something?

Yes. The insurance choice is the place you intend to definitely accept if you miss the grades for your first choice. Results Day is 13th August so you will be allowed to have 14th August to speak to your first choice place and find out if they will flex enough to allow you to attend, but if that doesn't happen and you accept the insurance place by 15th they will guarantee you accommodation. Anyone who takes longer than that (e.g. if appealing or asking for a re-mark for the missed grade) then they won't guarantee your accommodation.

Once you have accepted a Firm and Insurance choice you are supposed to treat that as a commitment if you succeed in getting the specified grades, but universities will usually release you from that commitment if you ask - just don't mess them around too much, Admissions Tutors have enough to deal with as it is.

Thanks! So if you miss your firm but get the grades for your insurance, you aren't admitted to your insurance automatically?

if you miss grades for firm and they don’t accept you then insurance will come into play. If you get grades per offer for insurance it should be automatic or if they accept lower grades.

DC missed out on firm, but got insurance. Sorted out accommodation with them on results day

You're automatically entitled to take up the insurance place, but you have to actively select that you are doing so because the Insurance uni doesn't know, unless you tell them, wherher you are appealling your grades and/or negotiating with your first choice uni or looking at Clearing to see if there are any places available at a 3rd uni which wasn't on your original list but might be better than the Insurance (example - you had an AAB offer from Uni 1 and a BCC offer from Insurance Uni. You get ABB. You are absolutely entitled to Confirm your place at Insurance Uni but there might be other options that you might want to explore. Once you tell them, then your place at the Insurance Place becomes definite and you are no longer trying to get a place anywhere else.

I would ask each university directly whether insurance applicants can apply for accommodation before results day, whether anything is guaranteed, and what happens to any deposit if the firm place confirms. Accommodation rules vary a lot, so get the answer in writing rather than relying on general open-day advice.

The information here is wrong - you are automatically given your insurance place if you miss the grades for your firm and you get the grades for your insurance (or even if you don't get the grades for your insurance but they decide to take you anyway). Its not a choice, and there is no point (generally) in trying to contact your firm uni on results day if you've been rejected. There isn't an appeal process to ask a uni to reconsider. Universities are given the results a week before students - in that time, they'll have considered whether to take you if your drop your grades, if they don't, then there is almost zero chance they'll change their minds if you contact them on results day. The only "choice" is whether to reject the insurance place, and go into clearing.

Yes there is a process for a mark review - and generally if you're in that situation, you should contact the firm uni to tell them thats what you're doing and ask them what their process is - most (but not all) will still offer the place if the review ups the grade (so you meet the original offer conditions), but in that circumstance, you'd still apply for accommodation at the insurance because results of a review won't be back by 15th (and only a small % of grades do in fact change on review).

I think it just means you confirm you want the accommodation by 15th.