Matching your predicted points to universities’ entry requirements is only a first stage in the choosing process — well, it is if you’re doing it right.

So far the process goes something like this:

1. Start with a list of all the universities.

2. Pick a course or courses.

3. Eliminate universities that don’t offer the right course(s).

4. Eliminate universities that expect higher scores than you’re likely to get.

5. Don’t eliminate those that expect lower scores.

For most applicants to most courses, stages 1 to 5 won’t have struck off anything like enough universities to get the list down to five. So...

6. Decide where you want to go.

Your decision about where you want (rather than where wants you) is going to be based on a whole gaggle of factors, most of which should have nothing to do with your course.

Some factors, however, are everything to do with the course — the standard, the reputation, what it covers, how it’s taught, blah, blah, blah.

We’ve already been over what the course covers, and how it’s taught. As for the standard, the reputation and the blah, blah, blah... check out the rest of this section for more thinks.

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