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Pronunciation

I don't think I've ever heard UCAS pronounced u-CAH-s or ICK-as. I've changed it, but others may disagree - if so, feel free to revert. --mkg87 19:23 17 August 2005, BST

Those who are used to saying the old "UCCA" will say uck-ASS (or presumably u-CAH-s, or however you want to write it). Welsh-speakers will say ICK-as, as the U in Welsh represents the English i phonetic sound as in little. -EdB — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.19.253 (talk) 13:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should replace the original pronounciations, as EdB is correct. Any thoughts? --anskas 22:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mature students

Do mature students applying have to go through UCAS as well? Also does anyone know where part-time and correspondence degrees fit in? Timrollpickering 17:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mature students do have to go through UCAS, they fill in exactly the same form as school applicants, EU applicants and International applicants- ie: everyone, regardless of situation, applies through UCAS with the same form. UCAS doesn't cover corresponance degrees, you would need to contact the universities directly about that. In terms of part time courses, they are listed on the UCAS website but I think some PT courses you apply through UCAS, others you apply directly to the university. You are best contacting the university's admissions department directly on that one! Good luck in any application! DARLA 3:27 15/12/2005 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.204.80 (talk) 03:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Info about Second undergrad at Oxbridge

refer to this page : http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/grad/

applicant for second undergrad may apply to both Oxford and Cambridge. Someone add that info as well! --Beatallica 06:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Logo

The articel states that the logo is new for 2006. I recieved a letter from them in 2005 using this logo. Perhaps it was introduced for the 05/06 academic year? Lucas42 11:33, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move?

What do we think about moving this page to Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, allowing UCAS to become a disambiguation between this and Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics? Although UCAS is usually pronounced as such, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms) suggests that where there is more than one expansion, the acronym should be made into a disambiguation. Comments? --Scott Wilson 18:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics does not appear in the first 30 Google hits for 'UCAS'. In fact, the Norwegian equivalent to UCAS (also named 'UCAS') appears higher. Thus, No changes. —anskas 20:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nine years later, I htink it is worth revisiting this. There are four other meanings for UCAS listed at UCAS (disambiguation). Does USAS as the title of this article meet the test of WP:ACRONYMTITLE?:

"Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject (e.g. NASA; in contrast, consensus has rejected moving Central Intelligence Agency to its acronym, in view of arguments that the full name is used in professional and academic publications). In general, if readers somewhat familiar with the subject are likely to only recognise the name by its acronym, then the acronym should be used as a title."

I don't think that UCAS is widely known like NASA or FIFA. In fact, I expect it would be unknown to non-UK readers, and to many if not most UK readers. I propose that Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is a more useful title for this article. Ground Zero | t 14:02, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Personal statement length

The article implies the only limit on the length of personal statements is a 4000 character limit, but there is also a line number limit (when the personal statement is pasted into the Apply system linebreaks are automatically added if not there already). This must be satified in addition to the character limit, but no mention of it is made in the article or the reference on Ucas.com

Loftx 14:46, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be better to expand the personal statement section. Currently it seems like there is a lack of information concerning it which seems to underplay its importance in the whole process. Also, in reguards to the comment out length, UCAS also provides a rough word count for the personal statement without spaces. Saying a character limit with spaces may be how the application form accepts the statement, but writing to a character count is very difficult. Opinions?194.80.204.97 (talk) 15:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Ucaslogo.jpg

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Type of organisation??

The article should address how UCAS is organised. Is is a company? Does it make a profit? Or is it a government agency, quango, etc....

Dhollm (talk) 12:48, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UCAS has charity status and is not associated with the goverment, or receives any government funding. UCAS' income is generated by the application fee that candidates pay. UCAS Media, however, is a limited company and offers services such as advertising (in UCAS publications and on the UCAS website), yougofuther.com and convention services. Their turnover is approx 10m a year and they gift-aid 4.5m of this to UCAS to cover the running costs.Ntucadbe (talk) 09:51, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From experience I have to say that UCAS is organized as a nasty fascist outfit. I deal with them as an academic who provides them information free of charge, so you might expect them to be polite and professional about it, but they treat everybody like a RyanAir customer.137.205.183.114 (talk) 10:52, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tracking info'.

The "Forgotten Login Deatils" link is utterly useless on UCAS, can someone tell me another way i could get my details? I never received a "Welcome letter," so i haven't got a copy of it all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.14.226 (talk) 21:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Get in touch with UCAS - there must be a telephone number on their website. In the mean time, take a look at WP:TALK. _Talk Islander 21:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History

wrote history section and moved to top Kernel geek (talk) 11:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Link Edit; Section 3.5

In the 3.5 "Timetable for Offers" section the link to "UCAS Clearing" directed back to the top of the page, recursion is not helpful; I redirected it to the correct section. Guavagirl 17:21, 4 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guavagirl (talk • contribs)

Neutrality

Article seems somewhat complementary/non-neutral to me. Some of the wording could do with touching up, the UCAS media section especially but not solely. crh23 (talk) 10:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you mean "complimentary"? I just read through the article, and is far as I can see, apart from the UCAS media section, it is completely factual. I agree that the UCAS media section reads as if it came straight from a PR department - its problem though is not so much lack of neutrality as that it's written in the kind of management-speak language that makes the typical reader want to puke. (As for touching-up the wording, I'm inclined to agree with you - go ahead and touch it up if you think you can improve it). Mhkay (talk) 23:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Desperately needs more sources

Some sections have few sources and many sections have no sources at all. Needs more sources to qualify as a proper Wikipedia article.

Jinlye (talk) 09:51, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

UCAS really mandatory?

The article claims: "all students planning to study for an undergraduate degree in the UK must apply through UCAS" - I believe that is technically not true, at least after the start of Clearing. There are universities that accept direct applications for undergraduate degrees, such as Brighton or UEL. --DukePB (talk) 10:39, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]