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Can unis email you directly to give you an offer?
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One of my friends said a uni has emailed her with an offer directly - not from ucas as she hasn't had her letter for track yet. Do unis actually do this? I thought it was all done through ucas and you sometimes got a postcard to say they have recieved your application?
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From my experience it's more common on the less popular courses, I got letters, emails, face to face offers and phone calls from departments offering me places, either before or after it came up on track, but usually before the letter from UCAS every time.
In my case (and my brothers) we had both applied through UCAS for engineering courses, less sure about him but am pretty sure in my case they were trying to win me over, I was a strong female applicant for engineering courses.
I've got some personal experience of this. Following some unfortunate events last year, I decided to defer my place at MMU until September this year. Since I made that decision, I've been deluged with mail from the university. Are they that desperate to keep me? Yes and no. No, they're not desperate to keep me personally. Yes, they're desperate to get their hands on my money.
And people are easy targets to charm when they are waiting for responses. The uni knows you are reasonably interested, and slightly stressed about whether or not you'll get an offer, so know they can go right up in your estimation by getting back to you 'fast' (aka before UCAS do).
I thought they didnt do this until clearing - aparrantly its a very competitive course.
They're probably just trying to get as many potentials as possible - but she can't get the required grades this year so why raise her hopes?
Unis say that you need certain grades for a course but usually accept people if they get lower.
Not much point in having them then? This whole thing is so confusing.
It's worth remembering that any course that has fewer than 5 applicants per place is really after students, because almost every applicant applies to 5 unis.
Bums on seat concept. If a course isnt very popular or they uni really want you on a coure then they'll take you. My brothers grades where a fair bit under his offer and he still got on his degree course.
Isn't it 6 now?
I only had 5.
I'm not sure, hence why I went for the lower of the two.
I had 6, but have heard of more recent applicants only having 5.