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What happens next?

Step 4: Results

What happens next depends on your exam results. If you meet all the conditions of your offer, you will be accepted by the university. Even if you have not quite met the requirements, the university or college may lower its offer and still accept you. Check Track to see their decisions.

Once you receive your results, you will be in one of the positions below.

  • You are accepted by your firm choice
  • You are accepted by your firm choice and you meet and exceed the conditions of the offer
  • You receive a 'changed course' offer
  • Your results don't meet the conditions of your firm choice but you are accepted by your insurance choice
  • Your results don't meet the conditions of any of your choices
  • You are not holding any offers.
 

Read through the information below to see what happens next for each scenario. The details displayed on your Track 'choices' screen are exactly what we have been sent by your universities and colleges. If you have a query about any of your choice details, please contact the university or college direct.

You must meet the conditions of your offer by 31 August 2013, unless otherwise agreed by the university or college. If you're taking a winter exam, the offer might ask you to meet the conditions by an earlier date.

You are accepted by your firm choice

If you are accepted, we will send you a Confirmation letter in the post. This letter confirms that you will be attending the university or college and will explain whether there is anything you need to do now. Once you receive this letter, you will be pleased to know that you have officially gained a place. The university or college will contact you with any further information.

You are accepted by your firm choice and you meet and exceed the conditions of the offer

If you meet and exceed the conditions of your conditional firm choice, you can apply through Adjustment if you wish. Find out more about Adjustment. You will receive a Confirmation letter in the post. If you'd prefer to keep your firm choice offer, you should follow the instructions on the letter. This letter confirms that you will be attending the university or college and will explain whether there is anything you need to do now. Once you receive this letter, you will be pleased to know that you have officially gained a place. The university or college will contact you with any further information.

You receive a 'changed course' offer

If you receive a changed course offer, it means that your university or college has been unable to confirm your place on the course you accepted because you have not met the original conditions, but that they are willing to make an alternative offer. The change could be a change of course, start date or point of entry. Once we have heard from your firm choice and insurance choice you will be asked to reply to any changed course offer provided you are not holding a confirmed place (UF). At this stage you can reply to a changed course offer in Track and you will have five days to reply. After five days, the offer will be declined automatically.

Your response depends on the status of your application:

If you applied to just one choice then you can either accept the change, or, if you paid the full application fee, decline it and go into Clearing. If you only paid the reduced fee for a single choice then you can move into Clearing by paying the further £11 in Track and then declining the changed offer. Once you have done that your Clearing Number will appear in Track.

If you applied for more than one course, but are holding only one offer, then you can either accept the change, or decline it and go into Clearing automatically.

If you applied for more than one course and are holding a firm and an insurance offer:

  • You are offered a change by the firm choice - you must either accept or decline the revised firm offer. If you decline it, then you will either be placed with the insurance choice or, if they decline you, move automatically into Clearing.
  • You are offered a change by the insurance choice - you will not be able to accept it unless and until the firm choice declines your place. You can however decline the insurance change. If you are also declined by the firm choice you will be automatically entered into Clearing.
  • You are offered changes by both firm and insurance choices - you may accept either change in Track, or decline both and move automatically into Clearing.

Your results don't meet the conditions of your firm choice but you are accepted by your insurance choice

If you do not meet the conditions set by your firm choice but you do meet the conditions set by your insurance choice, your place at your insurance choice will be confirmed (UF). We will send you a Confirmation letter in the post. This letter confirms that you will be attending the university or college and will explain whether there is anything you need to do now. Once you receive this letter, you will be pleased to know that you have officially gained a place. The university or college will contact you with any further information.

Your results don't meet the conditions of any of your choices

If you do not meet the conditions of any of the offers you have accepted and the university/universities cannot offer you a place you will be automatically be entered into Clearing. Log in to Track to view your Clearing Number - you can then start looking for another choice. Find out more about Clearing

You are not holding any offers

You may not have any offers because you were declined earlier in the year, you declined any offers received, or you applied after 30 June. If you are not holding any offers, you will be entered into Clearing automatically. Log in to Track to view your Clearing Number as above - you can then start looking for another choice. Find out more about Clearing