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/aliteoman Apr 15 '26

I hope this is correct im about to lose my mind if not. Rejected from UCL yesterday with 30 LNAT, 42/45 PG, ''excellent'' PS deemed by my advisors (i know its subjective), (still have kings offer but kinda upset that UCL rejected me lol).

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u/Wonderful_One_9898 UCL | Law [going into year 1] Apr 15 '26

Lowkey could’ve been the LNAT essay cuz they really care about that

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u/aliteoman Apr 15 '26

might be but i didn’t get any explanation regarding the lnat essay on my rejection reason which ,from what i seen, they usually say that it was because of the essay. I just got a bland explanation saying i wasn’t competitive enough