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Life after UCAS: What in the UK Follows the Filing of Documents to the University ?
- July 11, 2018
- Posted by: administrator
- Category: UCAS application
Most of the burden associated with the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has finally fallen off your shoulders. This analytical article will tell you what to do in the next eight months, while you are waiting for proposals and decisions of universities, the results of examinations and clarification of the situation.
If you were so busy preparing statements that did not even think about the upcoming steps, then this post will help you to draw up a particular action plan for the coming months.
Most universities evaluate the documents of applicants as they are delivered, without waiting for the end of applications. Usually, they respond by sending a proposal or an invitation for an interview within two weeks of the receipt of your package. However, if you click on the “Send” button on the last day, then chances are excellent that your documents will be stuck in the stream of messages from the same leisurely candidates, and you will have to wait a little longer.
Other universities do not undertake the processing of applications until the time when the deadline, scheduled for January, will not be left behind, and they do not send out proposals until all interviews are over. If this is your case, do not even hope to get off with a two-week wait- the process can drag on until the end of March- the date defined by UCAS as the end of the dispatch of the offers.
The proposals you receive can be conditional- valid only if you accept specific estimates – or unconditional. The latter are usually sent to those who submitted documents after the passing of all the exams. Conditional sentences specify the minimum number of UCAS points or grade “A” scores for specific items that you must collect in total.
Not all courses or universities will conduct interviews before the sending of proposals, but if you are still invited, information about this (with the date and time) will appear in the UCAS application.
If you need to postpone the meeting, it is better to contact the administrator of the university or course selection board directly; then he can officially update the data in the UCAS system.
Even before March, you will receive all the offers. At this point, you will switch roles: now you will have to choose. You will have to resolve which of the universities to make your priority, and which one to send to the bench in case you fail to meet all the requirements of the leader.
This may seem natural, but make sure that in the “insurance” proposal, the requirements for scores or UCAS points are lower than in an offer from a preferred university. If the points scored to match the conditions of the priority university, you would go there.
The day of announcement of results is a moment not only of receiving a reward for the works of all the last years, but also determining the future for the coming years. But do not worry.
The chances are high that the information on the conformity / non-compliance of your assessments for the tests with the conditions of the received offers will appear on the UCAS Track even before your awakening (if only the nerves generally let you sleep that night). If you took exams in organizations that do not send data to UCAS, then you will have to personally collect all the results and send them to the selected institution.
If your scores are too low for the selected universities, or if you score more points than the proposal you sent, you can search for other courses that match your results.
Clearing operates from July to September, regularly updating the vacancies after the other students accept or reject the offers made by him.