Basically rewriting this because as usual people take these threads the wrong way!!! :P All I wanna know is if you worked really hard to achieve the entrance requirements for the uni your going to then find out that the uni lets people in who got 2 or 3 grades lower would you be frustrated? I'm not talking about excpetional circumstances, being a few ums off or clearing. I know that its the application as a whole that counts too and I'm not bitter, snobbish or trying to hamper anyones success (sorry if what I said first time came out like that, I realy didnt mean it too), they've been accepted so have done something to get in, I get that!! But on the first question alone would you be frustrated? And I'm not trying to say that people don't deserve to go to uni or anything like that either! STOP READING TO DEEPLY INTO THINGS PEOPLE!! ( Originally Posted by Ilyas ) what are they supposed to do if they cannot fill spaces through clearing? they have no choice. EDIT: and what course and uni is this? BBC requirements and top 10 for the subject sounds dodgy. I'm not talking about through clearing though, I mean people who made the uni their first choice! && its media and comms so entrance requirements are usually lower for those courses anyway as they aren't seen as academic as maths, science etc I was accepted this year having narrowly missed my offer