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You can’t change your personal statement, so if you’re applying for a course that’s different from your initial choices, it’s a good idea to contact the university or college. Explain to them you’ve changed your mind and offer to send them a revised personal statement.

Yes. If you receive an offer in Extra, the date you must reply by is shown in your application. You must reply by this date otherwise your offer will be automatically declined.

To be eligible for Extra, you must have used all five initial choices and not be holding any offers, or waiting for any decisions. If you’re still waiting for decisions from some of your choices but you’re certain you’re not interested in these anymore and you don’t want to wait for their decisions, you can cancel these outstanding choices. The ‘Add an Extra choice’ option will then become available. You should think carefully before doing this because you won’t be able to reinstate these choices if you change your mind.

Not necessarily – each university or college decides which of its courses (if any) still has places available. They inform UCAS using an online system, and these courses display the information in our search tool.

You don’t need to be ready to use Extra when it opens in February. At whatever point you become eligible – up until early July – the ‘Add an Extra choice’ option will become available in your application.

You’ll see the option to ‘Add an Extra choice’ on your application.