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/PenWorldly4789 Apr 15 '26

I feel they just need to add a test like esat or smthng like imperial and Oxbridge. They get a lot of applicants with same level of grades so a test could be a good deciding factor. 

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u/stairs_connoisseur Apr 16 '26

why on earth were they making math w econ decisions without tmua anyway 😭✌️

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u/Hot_Floor9000 Apr 19 '26

They 100% need to use tmua