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         #MakeItHappen

Register to apply
ucas.com/students

Click on Undergraduate

Undergraduate
 2021 entry

   Click Apply

Press Register and then Next

Terms and conditions

Tick the box and press next

Initial Details
Fill in your information

Postal Address

Select right address and next

Personal details
  Mobile and Email Address

Use personal email address not
        college email

What updates you
 wish to receive and
how you wish UCAS to
    contact you

 Select as appropriate to you

Security
Note your answers in your phone or
  write them down you will need
these throughout the UCAS process

Success
Note down your username

      Log in now

How are you
   applying?
Through my school/college

Buzzword: Wyke 2021

                      Yes and Next

Tutor group
Please select from the following list
if none apply to you at this time put
 don’t know - in September we will
   move you in to your tutor group

Welcome to your application

•   Note down your 10 digit personal ID.

•   Watch apply 2021 video shown on the screen

•   Verify email - you should have received an
    email from enquiries@ucas.ac.uk (check junk
    mail if it has not appeared in your inbox)

Checklist

• There is a tick box for each section of your UCAS
  application.

• You can save and come back to a section at any
  point, until your application is sent to UCAS.

• ONLY tick a section is complete when ALL the
  information has been inputted.

Filling in your application form
Your application can be done in 3 stages:

Stage 1
                                            • Stage 1 is all your details that are unlikely to
• Personal details                            change so this should be relatively straight forward
• Additional Information                      and can be completed in around 30 minutes.

• Student Finance                           • Stage 2 is best to complete with your GCSE
• Employment                                  certificates and your college programme
                                              information.

Stage 2                                     • Stage 3 should be completed once you have done
• Education                                   all your research on universities and made your
                                              final 5 choices. Your personal statement should
                                              only be copied and pasted into UCAS once your
Stage 3                                       tutor has checked your statement and said it is
                                              ready!
• Choices
• Personal Statement

Personal Details
• Personal –
All asterisks (*) must be filled in
• Reference numbers –
Not essential to fill in
• Passport details –
Only applies to students whose permanent residence is outside the EU
• Student support –
Majority of you will be taking out a student loan fee code 02. Students who are financing university
privately fee code 01
• Nominated access –
IMPORTANT: Gives someone else access to your application who can discuss your application if you
are unavailable
• Disability/special needs –
Choose from the category and give details of any special needs

Additional Information
All asterisks (*) must be filled in
• Ethnic Origin
• National Identity
• Occupational background

Preferred to be filled in
• Have you been in care?
• Parental education

Activities in preparation for higher education
• Not open days
• Summer schools
• Taster days
• Subject masterclass

Student Finance

•Tick the box to say you have read the Student Finance details.

Employment

• Add any paid employment you have
  done.
• Employer name: Is the name of the
  workplace not your managers name.
• You will need start and finish dates.

Education
• You will add 2 institutions - Secondary school and College. (If you have attended more
     than one then add that too with the right dates.)

• Institution dates - September -June and the corresponding years.
• Secondary school qualification examples:
•   GCSE
•   GCSE Short Course
•   OCR Level ½ Cambridge Nationals
•   OCR National First Award
•   NVQ Certificate

•   College qualification examples:GCE Advanced Level
•   Extended Project (Level 3)
•   BTEC Certificate(QCF)
•   BTEC Subsidiary Diploma (QCF)
•   BTEC Diploma (QCF)
•   BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF)
•   WJEC Level 3 Applied Certificate in Criminology
•   WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma in Criminology

Choices
You have 5 choices – don’t waste them!

Do your research:
• Course
• City
• Campus (Accommodation)
• Career
• Cost
You can apply to the same institution for
different courses. It is ideal that they are a
similar type of course.
• Psychology BSc
• Psychology and Counselling BSc
• Sport and Psychology

Personal Statement
• Do not write your personal
  statement straight into UCAS.

• Word document first - 4000
  characters
• Draft to tutor for checking

• Final statement copy and paste in
  to the box.

View Details, Check then Pay and Send
• This is for you to CHECK your application against the checklist that is in the tutor
  office.
• It is your responsibility to make sure all the information you have provided is
  correct.
• You will need to print off a copy of your application attach the checklist and hand it
  in to your tutor for their check.

• Once your tutor has checked your application form and it ready to pay and send -
  hand your application in to reception.
• You will then need to log in to UCAS and pay and send your application
• You will need a debit or credit card.
• Your form will then be sent to the college system for us to do the final checks and
  add your academic reference and predicted grades before sending on to UCAS.