Offers for second round places could be scarce

Colleges are making offers to almost 50,000 applicants this morning, but second- round places could be limited.

The 49,862 CAO applicants getting good news today is 454 more than this time last year.

However, with half of the 37,412 level 8 degree offers being on those applicants’ top choice course, a slightly higher proportion of first preferences than a year ago, places in next week’s second-round offers could be scarce.