Soldato
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Before I start; is it worth registering on The Student Room? Or is UCAS something OcUK know a fair bit about?
I applied for 2009 entry, but then got a job sorted for 2009-2010 that’s proper relevant work experience to my course, so I contacted the Uni’s directly who said ‘that sounds good’ and they changed my offers to deferred on UCAS.
My five offers were at three different institutions, with two institutions giving me offers for two different courses but in the same schools (eg Software Engineering VS Applied Computer Science).
In order to get the two choices the right way round (UWE, Plymouth) I had to chose the higher of my two UWE offers. However they said to me something about (can’t remember the exact wording) that if I don’t meet the offer I can change to another course in the same school (like my offer I rejected) which is a common first year anyways.
One of my exams I messed up bigtime and also one of my subjects the department has been incompetent the entire course, not gonna say any more but lets just say that my “C” at AS (after it had been moderated down twice, with that mark only being given in April 2009) was the highest in the class.... so I doubt I’ve met my offers
Right; that’s the background out of the way... the questions:
Ooh, that's quite a long ramble... anyone still reading?
TY
I applied for 2009 entry, but then got a job sorted for 2009-2010 that’s proper relevant work experience to my course, so I contacted the Uni’s directly who said ‘that sounds good’ and they changed my offers to deferred on UCAS.
My five offers were at three different institutions, with two institutions giving me offers for two different courses but in the same schools (eg Software Engineering VS Applied Computer Science).
In order to get the two choices the right way round (UWE, Plymouth) I had to chose the higher of my two UWE offers. However they said to me something about (can’t remember the exact wording) that if I don’t meet the offer I can change to another course in the same school (like my offer I rejected) which is a common first year anyways.
One of my exams I messed up bigtime and also one of my subjects the department has been incompetent the entire course, not gonna say any more but lets just say that my “C” at AS (after it had been moderated down twice, with that mark only being given in April 2009) was the highest in the class.... so I doubt I’ve met my offers
Right; that’s the background out of the way... the questions:
- I’ve heard (no sauce) that this year you can login to Track before going into school at 8:30 20/08 and find out whether you’re in or not but it won’t tell you your grades. Is this true and from when is this?
- Do I do the whole phoning up and website’ing stuff whilst still at school after getting the paper results? They’ve got computers and I’ll have my iPhone on me, but homes a 2min drive away and has a faster internet connection without Nazi style filtering.
- Will UWE/Plym have put me on a lower entry course automatically if I didn’t make it? Or will I be ringing them to beg?
- Clearing VS begging.... is it best to contact the Uni’s I applied to directly (and sobbing!) before going through UCAS clearing?
- Is it worth me going through clearing at all as I’m taking a gap year.... or after I’ve rung the Uni’s and got nowhere I guess I could ring UCAS and say that I’m reapplying for 2010, and then I’ll have the bonus of a years relevant work experience on my applications. And there's then also the possibility of retaking certain modules.
Ooh, that's quite a long ramble... anyone still reading?
TY
