Completing your UCAS form UCAS APPLY 2019

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1 Completing your UCAS form UCAS APPLY 2019

2 Before you begin Information you enter onto your UCAS form must be accurate Esher College has to confirm that certain details are correct These include your full legal name, all your examination results and your area of residence We do this by checking against your College database entry. If you have left you can no longer access this, although we can. You can come in to College to check (sign in), or us your query:

3 Help? There are loads of help videos and factsheets on Unifrog know how and the UCAS website There is a separate presentation about Unifrog. Your Unifrog form code is leaversesher18 and your parents one is esherparents. You can book a 10 minute slot in Progression Guidance for personal statement feedback You can drop in to Progression Guidance to get your form checked before sending Get it done, but get it right!

4 Do you know your area of residence? This is very important and harder to complete than you think! It is the county or borough to which you pay Council Tax. It is NOT necessarily your postal address. For example: Surbiton, Chessington, New Malden = Kingston upon Thames Hampton, Twickenham, Teddington = Richmond upon Thames Thames Ditton, Claygate, Hinchley Wood, Long Ditton, the Moleseys, Esher, Walton, Weybridge, Hersham = Surrey If you are not sure, find where you live on the interactive London borough map: Js&ll= %2C &z=10 If you are not in a London Borough, you re in almost certainly in Surrey! Note this on your AED checklist.

5 What qualifications did you take? Use the information on the qualification checklists to copy down exactly which qualifications you took at Esher College If you took a BTEC, your BTEC registration number is on your certificate you got after 6.1 You only need 1 number even if you took more than 1 BTEC

6 Esher College UCAS deadlines Oxbridge, medics, vets and dentists: 9 am Monday 25 th September Other unis and courses: First deadline 9 am on Friday 10 th November and we will send your form to UCAS within 10 working days, providing there are no mistakes Second deadline: 9 am Monday 20 th November and we will send your UCAS form by the end of term Final deadline: 9 am Friday 1 st December and we will get your form to UCAS by their closing date of 15 th January

7 Now go to the UCAS homepage

8 Undergraduate

9 Apply and track your application

10 Undergraduate

11 2019 entry Apply

12 Register

13 Get phone or planner ready to note password etc Next

14 Terms and conditions Tick the box, then next

15 Personal details Remember this must be your formal name, which must also be on your College database entry.

16 Postal address

17 Postcode, with no gaps

18 Confirm address

19 Phone numbers without gaps The address you use most You can use your college , but will have to change it to a personal one once you have left college. If you have a silly personal address, find time over the summer to create a sensible one!

20 You ve registered! Note your username now, on your phone or in your planner. Taking a photo or saving a screenshot is a good idea. Log in now

21 Applying through school or college

22 Buzzword: esher19

23 Choose current tutor group, even if tutor is leaving

24 Note personal ID, and verify address

25 Enter the verification code you have been sent

26 You are now in UCAS Apply These are the sections of your UCAS form you need to complete. This is how you navigate to different sections.

27 About you Estimate date of entry to UK if you were born abroad and don t know exactly This is your area of permanent residence you found out earlier Most will be UK citizen - England This is your ULN from your database entry

28 Student support You must chose Fee code 02 This is the area of residence again. Use the drop down list.

29 Contacts and nominated access We require you enter an adult who can discuss your application with UCAS on your behalf, if you are away or ill. It is usually a parent or guardian.

30 Disability /special needs Choose from the drop down list. This is NOT used for selection purposes but ensures you continue to receive appropriate support at uni. Write in the support you currently get at College.

31 Equality monitoring None of this is used for selection. Fill in as relevant and as you wish. The information helps UCAS and universities monitor whether they are being fair in their admissions. It is only shared with universities after you have received an offer.

32 Student finance Read and tick

33 Education the tricky bit! Click here to add your secondary school Choose below honours degree qualifications

34 Add secondary school

35 Add new GCSEs (9-1) and so on until you have entered everything!

36 Add GCSEs (A*-G)

37 Take note Double Science is actually two single GCSES: Science GCSE and Additional Science GCSE igcse and GCSE (short course) are separate qualifications, so click Add new qualification Make sure your UCAS form qualifications match the qualifications on your database entry If they don t, your form will be rejected at the Esher College checking stage

38 Add Esher College

39 Add the qualifications youtook Check the qualifications checklist for correct titles Put August 2018 You can put module grades for BTECs in if you wish

40 A levels are GCE A levels Your year group doesn t have module results for A level, so ignore

41 GCE AS level You are only did these if you did a 1 year AS level course as part of your programme Older students under the modular system may need to add AS levels

42 Take note EPQ is Extended Project Level 3. Write a short version of your project title for the subject You can add Duke of Edinburgh s Award, music, dance and drama qualifications but must make sure they are entered under the correct school or college If these are not relevant you may miss them out

43 Typical (short) entry

44 Choices of university /course

45 Be careful we do not check these!

46 Use the drop down lists Change to September 2020 if you want to defer entry and take a gap year

47 You can make up to 5 choices. This is probably the last section to complete. Check it carefully we don t! How each choice looks

48 Employment This is mainly aimed at mature students who have had proper jobs, but if you have a part-time job, add it in

49 Personal statement Write it in Unifrog and paste it in once you are happy with the final draft.

50 When you paste it, it looks like this

51 In preview, it looks better

52 View all details to see all sections

53 DO NOT PAY AND SEND! Get it checked by someone from Progression Guidance Sally for an appointment Sign in at reception and get a visitor lanyard Any errors will delay your form Once sent your form is locked and cannot be changed unless unlocked We will add the reference and send it finally to UCAS within 10 working days, provided your form is correct Errors cost time get it checked!

54 Help? There are loads of help videos and factsheets on Unifrog and the UCAS website You can book a 10 minute slot in Progression Guidance for personal statement feedback You can drop in to Progression Guidance to get your form checked before sending

55 Declaration

56 UCAS tells us you have sent your form. We then check the important information and add our reference. Your form will arrive finally at UCAS within 10 working days of you paying and sending, providing there are no mistakes. Pay and send!

57 Esher College UCAS deadlines Oxbridge, medics, vets and dentists: 9 am Monday 25 th September Other unis and courses: First deadline 9 am on Friday 10 th November and we will send your form to UCAS within 10 working days, providing there are no mistakes Second deadline: 9 am Monday 20 th November and we will send your UCAS form by the end of term Final deadline: 9 am Friday 1 st December and we will get your form to UCAS by their closing date of 15 th January

58 Mistakes? If there are errors you will be ed by one of the Progression Guidance team. Your form will be unlocked and you must correct the mistake. The 10 working days restarts once the corrected form is submitted.

59 Get it right, get it checked, get it in!