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Unifrog for Universities – A step-by-step guide
1. Qualifications
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Select the country you normally live in. This will be used to calculate the tuition fees that apply to you.
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Select the qualification(s) you are taking (or will be taking in 6 Form). This will be used to find the entry
requirements for the courses you are interested in.
Enter, in UCAS points, your best and worst prediction of how you will do by the time you leave school. To help
you calculate the points, there is a link to the UCAS tariff tables and to a points calculator.
2. Subjects
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Type in the subject you are interested in studying. This is just the first step in choosing your subject so you do not
need to be specific at this point – unless you already know exactly what you want.
Unifrog shows you a list of all possible subjects related to the one you have typed in, as well as other similar
subjects you might be interested in. Select up to 10.
3. Longlist
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All the courses in the UK corresponding to your choices now come up in 3 columns: aspirational, solid and safe.
These columns are defined according to the UCAS points range you entered earlier: aspirational courses have
entry requirements at the top of your range or above, solid ones in the middle, and safe ones at the bottom or
below.
Courses with a red cross have entry requirements that are above your UCAS range. You can still select them, but
it is not advisable!
Select the courses you are interested in by clicking on them. Then see how they compare on any of the 17
criteria in the grey box. Clicking on one of these tabs will rank all the courses according to how they fare in that
particular criteria.
Filter the courses using the dropdown menus in the light blue box.
You can select as many courses as you like at this stage.
Whoa there!
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We encourage you to select at least 5 courses from the Longlist, and to make sure you have at least one
selected from each of the three columns. The red ‘Whoa there!’ frog will appear if you don’t do either or both of
these things – though you can override it by clicking ‘next’.
4. Shortlist
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The courses you have selected are marked by red pins on a map, while your home is represented by a blue pin.
Your Shortlist contains more information about each of the courses you have selected, including a recap of the
data you saw in the Longlist, a short description of the course, an unofficial description of life at the university,
and detailed information about the entry requirements.
Useful links below the course description take you to the university’s website, the Open Days page, the course
page and the finance page.
Narrow your list down to 5 courses to mimic your UCAS application form. The sticky at the top of the page will
remind you of how many courses are still in your list. When you’re done, click ‘next’.
5. Complete
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As soon as you reach this page, a PDF report of your Unifrog shortlist will be emailed to you as well as to your
form tutor.
Use Unifrog as many times as you need!
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