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5. Applicant visit days If we make you an unconditional or conditional offer, you may be invited to an applicant visit day. Our course-specific visit days are designed to provide you with more information about your chosen course, the student experience at QMU and our campus. You will also have the opportunity to meet staff and current students. 6. Accept your offer If you decide to accept our offer, you will need to do this on UCAS Track. Once you have received all of your decisions, you will have to reply to your offers by a specific deadline given in UCAS Track. You have three options: • Select a firm choice – this is your first choice • If your firm choice is conditional, you can also select an insurance choice – this is your back-up choice in case you don’t meet the conditions for your firm choice. We recommend that your insurance choice has lower conditions than your firm choice to give you the best chance of securing a place. • Decline any other offers. 7. 9. If you would like to stay in our student accommodation, online applications go live in April. You can apply for accommodation if you are holding a conditional or unconditional offer. If you didn’t receive any offers, or didn’t meet your conditions on results day, Clearing provides you with the opportunity to apply later in the year. Applying for accommodation There is no deadline for submitting your application. However, we recommend you apply as early as possible to avoid any disappointment. More information and contact details can be found on pages 40-41. 8. Results days If you have accepted a conditional offer from us, the final stage of your application is when we receive your exam results. This is known as confirmation. If you have a conditional offer based on your SQA Highers, A levels or ILC, we will usually receive these results from UCAS. We will then update UCAS Track with our final decision on your application. If you have a conditional offer based on achieving another qualification, including an HNC or HND, you must send a copy of your transcript and final certificate to our Admissions team. Once we receive these, we’ll make a decision as soon as possible. 151 Clearing Clearing is available from 30 June, and provides an opportunity for applicants who aren’t holding any offers to apply for courses at universities which have places remaining. Applications for Clearing will remain open until all Clearing places have been filled. Details of Clearing vacancies can be found on our website or on www.ucas.com 10. Joining QMU Once you have accepted a place with us we will send you more information about beginning your course at QMU, which will include details of anything else you need to do before joining the University. During August, once you hold an unconditional offer, you will also receive information about how to formally register with QMU. This registration process is referred to as Online Matriculation. Once you’ve completed matriculation, we look forward to welcoming you on campus!