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UCAS Progression Report

Troubleshooting

Some of the names on the report are unfamiliar, why is this?

Some of the applicants may not be familiar to the school or college because they are mature applicants. The report contains all applicants that applied in the cycle with the relevant school code. Mature applicants have usually attended the school in past years and are not recent pupils.

Does the Progression Report tell us rejection rates for specific courses at specific universities?

The standard Progression Report does not contain any detail on rejects or declines. You can see which choices your students were rejected at in the application listing of the Offers Report. Rejection rates for UCAS are not provided at course and university level owing to confidentiality issues.

Why is there a discrepancy between the summary sheet numbers and the application listing?

For example, if the application listing does not show Cardiff University, but the institution listing shows an application was made to the university, though not accepted - the reasons could be:

  1. this applicant could be mature and applied independently, which is why they are absent from the application listing (only contains those who applied via a school).
  2. if they were in the school age range then they still might be absent from the application listing if they did not request their application to be visible.

There is no data in our ethnicity and disability tables - why is this?

The ethnicity and disability tables are restricted to Home domiciled applicants only. There will be no data present in these tables if your school is outside the UK. The totals in the table may not match if you have students attending your school who normally live outside the UK.

The number of accepts in the summary page is higher than the accepts count in the pivot table. Why is this?

The summary sheet includes all applicants that stated your school or college as their last attended institution plus anyone that opted out of sharing data with their school or college. The pivot table includes only data relating to those who applied through the school or college last year and agreed to share their data.

Our applicant listing is out by around 200 compared to Adviser Track - Why is this?

The data in this table is intended to match the data in the Adviser Track and has been filtered to include only applicants who applied directly from school and who have allowed their details to be shared with your centre - this may mean that the data in this table does not match the data in the rest of the report.

For example: In the application listing there are 1,000 applicants in total. These applicants are all applicants that associated themselves with the school during the application process (applied via a school using a buzzword) and have agreed for their application to be made visible. The applicants may not necessarily be recent pupils.

The summary sheet contains 1,200 applicants (which is 200 higher than the application listing) - this list is everyone who has associated themselves with your school regardless of the applicant visibility rule. The summary sheet includes everybody. It does not provide detailed application information.

1,200 applicants associated with your centre in total (including mature applicants)

1,000 applicants applied via your centre (with viewing permissions)

The application listing sheet has been changed for the 2010 entry cycle Progression Report to contain only applicants who applied via a school or college. Does this means that independent applicants are not included?

For example: A centre is shown as having four applicants aged 25-39 whereas they believe they have just one (aged 27) and no applicants aged 21-25.

The reason why there are more applicants than expected is because the report includes all applicants that have the relevant centre code attached to their application with UCAS, and this will include mature students.

It is possible that some of the applicants may have attended the school or college previously and are not recent pupils. The application listing sheet lists all applicants that applied via a school or college (and therefore are recent pupils), from this it can be seen that there are no recent pupils aged between 21 and 25 and there is one applicant aged 27. Please note the application listing sheet only contains information on applicants that should appear in the Adviser Track Report.

How is the ratio worked out on the worksheets?

The aim of these fields is to show a measure of the number of applications compared with the number of acceptances. With any ratio comparing the numbers, it depends on the data or the scenario you are looking at, in this case the bigger the difference between applications and acceptances (with applications being higher than acceptances) then the higher the ratio figure. For example:

Applications to acceptances ratio
Applications*AcceptancesRatioMeaning
2947.25Applications are much higher than acceptances and so the ratio is high
29241.21Applications and acceptances are quite close and so the ratio is low
29291.00Applications and acceptances are equal and so the ratio is 1

In the Progression Report, the ratios of applications: acceptances can be found in the tabs 'Institutions', 'Subjects', 'Institution analysis'. The ratio of applicants: acceptances can be found in the 'Characteristics' for the school and UCAS tab.

A low ratio figure indicates that most applications made were accepted and a high ratio figure indicates that most applications were not accepted.

Please note:

  1. 1. *an applicant may make up to five applications/choices but can only be accepted once, so it is possible that there are instances with high ratios if people made lots of applications but were still accepted.
  2. 2. applications are only for the main scheme (the choices listed in an application made before 30 June) however an applicant may accept through a direct route (Clearing, Adjustment and Extra).

For further information, please contact:

Data Insight, UCAS Media, Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 3LZ

Tel: 01242 223748 Fax: 01242 544806

Email: reportsforschools@ucas.ac.uk (Please include establishment name and number in any email correspondence.)

Website: www.ucasmedia.co.uk/whatweoffer/datainsight