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Year 12 (Lower Sixth)
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Year 13 (Upper Sixth)
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September
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First date for UCAS to receive application forms.
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15 October
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Deadline for applications to Oxford, Cambridge and medicine, dentistry and veterinary courses.
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mid October
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Most schools and colleges set their own deadlines for UCAS application forms around this time, so they can add their references.
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end November
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Recommended target deadline for getting standard application forms to UCAS.
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December
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A good time to practice interview skills or arrange Open Days if you haven’t had visited any universities.
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January
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First date for UCAS to receive ‘Route B’ application forms for art and design courses.
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January
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Start considering what and where you might want to study.
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If you got your application in to UCAS by the end of November, you should be beginning to get responses from the universities: offers, rejections or invitations to interviews.
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15 January
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Deadline for UCAS to receive most application forms. (Universities may choose to consider late applications.)
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January-August
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Use the Uni Chooser to create a shortlist of preferred universities.
Then read the Push profiles and get hold of their prospectuses.
Attend open days where you can and simply arrange your own visit where you can’t.
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University interviews, followed by offers or rejections.
When you’ve heard back from all your universities, you need to let them know your decision within a couple of weeks.
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12 February
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UCAS starts to send round 1 Route B application forms for art and design courses to your first choice universities and colleges. |
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UCAS website starts to show which courses still have vacancies for applications via ‘UCAS Extra’. UCAS also send out Extra ‘Passports’ to anyone who hasn’t accepted an offer who asks for one. (Otherwise, use UCAS’s online ‘Track’ system.) |
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7 March
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UCAS’s recommended deadline for getting in application forms for art and design courses to avoid the last-minute rush.
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| 24 March |
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Deadline for UCAS to receive round 1 Route B application forms for art & design courses |
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28 March
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UCAS starts to send round 2 Route B application forms for art and design courses to your second choice universities and colleges.
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23 May
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UCAS starts to send round 3 Route B application forms for art and design courses to your third choice universities and colleges.
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June
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As soon as your exams are over, if you haven’t already visited your chosen universities, arrange to do so.
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| 12 June |
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Last date for UCAS to receive Route B applications. After this they won't be forwarded to universities and you'll receive details about Clearing instead. |
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30 June
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UCAS application deadline for most courses (not Route B). Applications received after this date won’t be forwarded to the universities. Instead, they send you details of Clearing and recommend that you contact the universities directly.
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July
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Get to grips with student finance: try Push's capital guide to Student Money.
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| 7 July |
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Last date to choose vacancies through UCAS Extra. |
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August, second week
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Highers results published.
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August, third week
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A and AS Level results published.
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August to mid September
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Start preparing your UCAS form. Write your ‘personal statement’ and finalise the list of places you want to apply to.
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Clearing: if you haven’t got a place and are determined not to take a gap year, chase vacancies through the Clearing system.
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August to September
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New academic year.
Check out what you need to be thinking about in Year 13, see the next column.
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Make sure that you’ve sorted out your student funding and accommodation.
Work out a budget of income and spending.
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Mid September to October
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University terms start. |