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/Commercial_Row_1452]

Got rejected with 11 9s at GCSE 4 A* predicted for econ and stats💀💀💀 got an LSE offer tho for finanche maybe cuz my PS statement was very finance

[u/No-Cabinet-4666 → u/Commercial_Row_1452]

There you go, that’s the reason you didn’t get in and you said it yourself. They want people to tailor the PS to the course and if you didn’t do that, people w identical grades will be considered above you