- Where to start?
- Step 1: Choosing courses
- Step 2: Applying
- Step 3: Offers
- Step 4: Results
- Step 5: Next steps
- Step 6: Starting university or college
- FAQs
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- Student finance
- Important dates
- Events
- Student number controls
Replying to offers
If we have received decisions from all of your son's or daughter's choices and they have at least one offer, we will email them to let them know there has been a change to their application, and ask them to look at Track. If they haven't provided a valid email address we will send them a letter which will ask them to reply to their offers.
They reply to each offer in one of the following ways:
- firm acceptance
- insurance acceptance
- decline.
Firm acceptance
Their firm acceptance is their first choice - this is their preferred choice out of all the offers they have received. They only have one firm acceptance.
Insurance acceptance
They can accept an offer as an insurance choice if their firm choice is a conditional offer. Their insurance choice can be conditional or unconditional and acts as a back-up to their firm choice. They can only have one insurance acceptance.
Decline
Once they have decided which offer to accept firmly, and which (if any) to accept as an insurance, they must decline all other offers. If they don't want to accept any of the offers, they can decline them all. They will then be eligible to use Extra or Clearing, depending upon their circumstances.