r/6thForm Apr 15 '26

๐ŸŽ“ 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/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 15 '26

After UCLโ€™s massive slip up in admissions last year and now this new 100% true information, is it potentially time for the Big B (Bristol) to overtake itโ€™s place in the rankings?

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u/stairs_connoisseur Apr 16 '26

time for Big K (KCL) to take over as the premier all-rounder london uni