Guest55 wrote:
DG - it's nothing to do with Oxbridge.
A uni CANNOT give out all its offers before the Jan 15th deadline - it HAS to give all candidates equal consideration. When you apply makes absolutely no difference to whether you get an offer.
To be fair to DG that was my suggestion not hers, though I wasnt suggesting they would give out all the offers, only weigh up applications in light of losing a chunk of their applicants in January. It was strange here as DS got his Durham offer two days before Oxbridge results came out. And Durham does run some kind of quota system. Like DG's daughter, my own applied the day of the deadline in January and got an offer (different subject from her original offer).
Re Manchester bond girl- don't hold your breath. The year DD applied they offered in June and the deadline for accepting other offers had passed so she couldn't even do that till they got round to it. (They then got her details wrong in the offer letter, which was littered with terrible spelling mistakes as well. Not great. Hopefully they have sharpened things up since then!).