All applications must meet our minimum academic requirements as listed.
If a candidate applies with a GCSE profile which does not meet our requirements along with their predicted A levels, their application will be rejected. However, if a candidate were to apply once their A levels have been achieved (take a year out between School and University and apply during a gap year) then we would not look at their GCSE profile but only their A level attainment, so provided they have achieved the A level grades and subjects we are asking for then this would be acceptable. We would not want a candidate to waste a UCAS space, but we also would not want a candidate to discount Birmingham on the strength of a GCSE grade without knowing the options which are still available to them.