{"id":8328,"date":"2021-06-08T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:12:53","slug":"going-through-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2021\/06\/08\/going-through-clearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Going through Clearing: why your past doesn&#8217;t define you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, no matter how hard you study, you don\u2019t score the grades you were hoping for. The grades you were predicted by the school board. The grades that were supposed to get you into the university of your dreams. But now, being a second-year student at the very university I was almost rejected from, I can\u2019t help but laugh at those memories and shake my head in disbelief<\/span> after my experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/applying\/clearing\/\">Clearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it all started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, let me introduce myself first before I take you on a little trip back in time. My name is Daniela, and I\u2019m an international student (also an ambassador here at the University of York). I\u2019m in my second year and I study English Literature. I love my degree, I absolutely <strong>adore<\/strong> my Department and I just started gathering material for my dissertation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years ago, however, things were not looking great or promising at all. I did the International Baccalaureate<\/span> (<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IB). This is a competitive, stressful and very prestigious programme that is meant to get you into the best universities and prepare you for the academic world. I had my strong subjects, I had my weak subjects, and I was predicted a fairly average score in the sea of peers. Regardless, my predicted grades were good enough to apply both domestically and internationally. That\u2019s what I had in mind when I decided I wanted to study English.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When things don&#8217;t go as planned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess that if you\u2019re reading this, you know things didn\u2019t go as planned. A month and a half after my final and worst exam to ever exist (Economics HL Paper 3 is a gruesome nightmare), I opened the official IB website in anticipation. My heart was racing, my fingers were twitching. It\u2019s safe to say that results day is a nerve-wracking experience, and, well, seeing some of my results was indeed nerve-wracking.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And not at all in a good way.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, you don\u2019t do well. You fail, you score low. And it should be okay because we\u2019re human beings and can\u2019t be perfect. However, shortly after results day, all of my UCAS applications were automatically rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you don&#8217;t do as well as you thought you would, it\u2019s heartbreaking. I won\u2019t be lying when I say that I spent at least a few days just crying and thinking &#8211; where did things go wrong? How could I do so well on mock exams, but not here? At that time, studying in the UK was not necessarily a top priority for me, I just really wanted to have it as an opportunity. Seeing how things have turned out, I decided fate was telling me to stay where I was and study somewhere else. I was ready to give up completely.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, <strong>it happened.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Clearing experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It began like this: &#8216;Dear Daniela, I\u2019m sorry to hear about your exam score\u2026<\/span>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a long, detailed email from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/english\/\">Department of English<\/a> at York, a very kind staff member explained to me what my options were if I still wanted to study with them. She said that my personal statement and reference letter were impressive and that it would be a shame if I didn\u2019t at the very least try to apply again. That was how I heard about Clearing. It took me a while to process things.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was getting an email from one of the best English departments in the UK. York is a leading Russell Group university. My grades were not good enough, but my personal statement was. <strong>I could go through Clearing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Clearing?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/applying\/clearing\/guide\/\">what IS Clearing<\/a>? How does it work? Well, Clearing is how universities fill in remaining places after results days when some applications get rejected or students accept an offer from a different university. Essentially, it opens a path for those who wish to apply but, for whatever reason, didn\u2019t have an earlier opportunity to do so. You have to keep in mind that when it comes to grades, what the university expects and what they ACTUALLY want are two very different things. You are not defined by a piece of paper with numbers &#8211; you are a person, you have aspirations and interests.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying through Clearing was so much easier than I imagined. A few phone calls, a few emails, and some adjustments on the UCAS website. Clearing sounds like a big scary word, but it\u2019s not as complicated as you think. Sometimes you might have to pick a different course. For example, I initially applied for a combined degree of Literature and Linguistics. At the time it seemed like the ideal opportunity; the perfect degree. It\u2019s minor, but I had to change to a single English Literature course instead when I went through Clearing because there were no places left. Going through Clearing requires an open mind and patience. More often than not you will be told that some courses have no places left.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I learned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If applying through Clearing taught me one thing, it\u2019s that I wasn&#8217;t alone in this. I know quite a few people who applied through Clearing because of similar reasons. In the end, we were all students at a Russell Group university. Our grades and our past have no real impact on our future life as students. Some of the brightest, most amazing fellow students I know didn\u2019t score as high as they hoped for. Does that make them any less of a person than those who did? 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