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If we have received decisions from all of your choices and you have at least one offer, we will send you a Replying to Offers letter and booklet. Our Replying to Offers booklet will help you to make your replies. You reply to offers online by using Track.

You must reply to each offer in one of the following ways.

1. Firm acceptance (F)

2. Insurance acceptance (I)

3. Decline (D)

The Replying to Offers leaflet has full details of your reply options. You may not want to wait for all your choices to make their decisions. Think carefully before you decide which offers to accept because once you accept an offer, including an insurance offer, you are committed to that course.

Make sure that both the course and the college or university are right for you because you will be spending the next three or four years there.

We recommend that you attend open days or visits before you make your decision. You can delay your replies to us until after your visits, as long as you reply by the date given in your Replying to Offers letter.

If you change your mind after accepting an offer, you can still withdraw, but you will not be able to apply for other courses or go through Clearing in the same year. You can, however, reapply in the next application cycle.

Examples of ways you can accept offers:

UF - You have firmly accepted an Unconditional offer. You cannot have an Insurance choice.

CF - You have firmly accepted a Conditional offer.

CF + CI - You have firmly accepted one Conditional offer and accepted another Conditional offer as an insurance.

CF + UI - You have firmly accepted a Conditional offer and accepted an Unconditional offer as an insurance.

When to reply

Use Track to reply to your offers. If you do not reply by the date shown on your Replying to Offers letter, your offers will be withdrawn. The date on the letter is your individual reply date so it may be different to other people's reply dates.

You can accept an offer before you have received decisions from all of your choices. If you do this you need to be sure that it's the right course and university or college for you as you will be spending the next three or four years there. If you are certain about which offers you want to accept you can cancel all outstanding decisions and reply to the offers that you have received on Track.