What are my Chances?

• You’ll need to find out both if you have the right subjects and the right predicted grades to be able to apply for a course.
  
• Once you have decided you’ve a fighting chance of getting a place you need to check out the range of offers from different universities. 
  
• Some subjects and courses and some universities and colleges are more popular than others and this can affect the level of offer. 
• Some courses – especially vocational ones – will have extra entry requirements that will need to be outlined in your personal statement. For example, a nursing degree course would require evidence of work experience in a caring environment and a teaching degree would require evidence of recent work experience with young people preferably in a classroom setting. 
• Are admission tests part of the selection process? Extra admission tests may be set in subjects like medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and law. Oxford and Cambridge routinely set admissions tests as well as interviewing and asking for written work.