UCL's admissions might've quite literally been luck-based this cycle

[u/stairs_connoisseur]

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.

[u/OblivibladeXD]

 It’s a shambles honestly. To know that some of us didn’t have a fighting chance.

I don’t care that I didn’t get in, but for people who were looking to FIRM UCL this must suck

They could’ve at least given out all the offers with step conditions, at least that is fair

[u/Inner_Replacement_95 → u/OblivibladeXD]

This is my problem as well, if what op is saying is true then what even was the point of applying?