Guaranteed Unconditional Offers (GU)
Based on the information you have given on your application
form, you have already met the conditions for entry. Unless your
application and/or qualifications are subsequently shown to be
fraudulent, a guaranteed unconditional offer is binding upon the
conservatoire.
Guaranteed Conditional Offers (GC)
Your offer is subject to you meeting certain conditions, usually
examination results. Unless your application and/or qualifications
are subsequently shown to be fraudulent, the offer is binding upon
the conservatoire if you accept the offer and meet the
conditions.
Reserve Offers (VU or VC)
Unless you have received (and accepted) a guaranteed offer (GU
or GC) from RWCMD, you have not been accepted to study at the
College. A reserve offer (VU or VC) does not mean a place has been
‘reserved’ for you; it means that RWCMD is not
able to offer you a guaranteed place at the time it makes the
offer. A reserve offer merely indicates that RWCMD would like the
opportunity to review its offer to you in the light of
acceptances/declines to its guaranteed offers. You will become part
of a ‘pool’ of reserve candidates and RWCMD may choose to make you
a guaranteed offer if a suitable place becomes available. If the
College chooses not to make you a guaranteed offer, you will
not be eligible to start at the College.
In order to be considered for a guaranteed place (should one
become available) you will need to accept the reserve offer (and
meet any conditions if applicable).
Only a small number of reserve offers are made. Unfortunately we
cannot confirm when you will hear whether or not we will be able to
offer a guaranteed place. Reserve offers are reviewed continually
but changes are more likely to be made in the period following the
acceptance deadline and in the summer examination results
period.
There is no order of rank to the reserve list; if any places
become available, academic staff look at all of
the applicants holding a reserve offer before deciding to
whom they wish to make a guaranteed offer.
The College can elect to make you a guaranteed offer at any time
during the application cycle. Reserve offers remain active until
after A-Level results have been issued in August, so you could have
a reserve offer until the end of August. The decision to wait and
see whether a guaranteed place becomes available, or to accept an
offer at another conservatoire, is entirely at your discretion.
Unsuccessful (Reject)
Unsuccessful decisions mean you have not been offered any type
of place. Reserve (VC / VU) offers will change to unsuccessful if
and when the College can confirm that no further guaranteed places
are available.