Navigating University Rejections: Strategies and Tips for Appealing Admissions Offers

Here’s what you’re going to do if you get rejected on results day and you don’t meet the conditions for your firm choice. Firstly, if you shortly missed the entry requirements, for example, let’s say you needed, I don’t know, 100 or something marks for an A star and you got just a few marks less, take a picture of your results and talk about the grade boundaries in your email and email the admissions department that you’re a few marks off or even call them. Emailing is better because then you can kind of send the proof for that as well. I know some departments, even at Oxbridge, some schools have kind of allowed that and they kind of allow you to kind of still go in. If you completely missed the entry requirements, let’s say something bad happened at home or there’s a mitigating circumstance, then you can kind of talk about that and you can maybe get your offer deferred. So that means next year you don’t have to kind of work through that whole process of getting the offer again. So that would be quite good. So for example, I know someone who had an LSE law offer, he had some mitigating circumstances he spoke about that, he had his offer deferred and now he’s at LSE law. If your results get lost, then email the admissions department and talk about what has happened and then send in your results once you have them and depending on the availability, they should hopefully be able to offer you a space. My results got lost and that’s what I had to do. I had to email the department and they let me in. Good luck.