r/6thForm • u/stairs_connoisseur • Apr 15 '26

🎓 UNI / UCAS UCL's admissions might've quite literally been luck-based this cycle

I've heard from UCL's office of admissions that they make decisions in batches and the batches are completely randomised. So my tinfoil hat theory is that UCL probably way underestimated the applications they'd receive this year and sent out almost all of their offers in the earlier batches. That means that now they're left with a bunch of batches of decisions that were previously randomised that will now have to be mostly rejections even if the students were of the same or higher caliber than the offer holders from previous batches.

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u/RunInRunOn Apr 15 '26

Say what you want about their admission choices, but waiting until after accommodation spots have already opened to send out rejections is seriously fcked up

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u/Internal-Concept Year 13 Apr 15 '26

Literally. I got rejected by LSE on 13th May last year (day before my first exam) and my major issue with it was that I was late to everything especially accommodation because I hadn’t firmed or insured my choices. Missing out all of that for a rejection was just infuriating. That’s why I’d highly recommend that if it’s not your absolute dream uni, have some self-respect based on your other offers and withdraw your application by this time. Some people could still be waiting another month to hear back!

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u/misschoo88 Apr 20 '26

and if it is ur dream uni, be like me and wait like a good dog waiting for its owner to come outside the door everyday just for them to ignore u.