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Students will receive a letter from the Admissions Office when they confirm Swansea as their Firm choice, providing a link to the on-line application form.

Please be advised that you will not be able to apply until you receive your 6 digit Swansea University Student Number (e.g. 456789) these are sent out by email. Please note this is not to be confused with you UCAS number that starts 07 (e.g. 091234567)

Places in residence are not allocated until a student's place at the University is confirmed. For most students details of the accommodation which has been arranged for them will be sent shortly after 'A' level results are published. Some residences fill up very quickly indeed, no student in any category is guaranteed a place in a particular residence.

Our Guarantee:

To be guaranteed a place in residence, you must:

• Hold a firm offer on a full time course

• Make an application for accommodation

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• Apply by the 30th June 2009

However, in practice, it is usual for all students with firm offers who confirm their university places by that date to be offered university accommodation.

Allocation Policy

Places in residence are not allocated until a student's place at the University is confirmed. Applications are prioritised in the following order of admission category and then by date.

UF  CF CCO learing CI Clearing Scheme	Unconditional Firm Conditional Firm Changed Course Offer Conditional Insurance Clearing Scheme

Within each category accommodation is offered to eligible students using the following criteria:

Disability / Medical Priority Date order of application Accommodation preference

While most new students will be able to obtain university accommodation certain residences will inevitably be full by the time the later applications are processed.

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Room Allocations

Residential Services at Swansea ensures that every application receives the best attention. Allocation are made with the aid of a an ‘On-line’ allocation system in order to reduce the time between making an application and receiving your accommodation offer. Students are allocated to a residence site according to their preferences, please ensure that you think these through carefully as they will be allocated on a priority basis.

Unconditional & Conditional Firm Offer

New undergraduate applicants who have applied through UCAS must confirm that they wish to hold Swansea as their Firm offer before an Accommodation Application may be submitted. You will then need to make an application by 30th June (please see guarantee information above).

Insurance Offer

Students holding Insurance offers will be also be able to apply for accommodation once they have received their student number, and if successful in obtaining a place at Swansea, will be sent information on accommodation once their place has been confirmed.

Clearing Students

Students offered a place at Swansea through the UCAS Clearing system will be sent details of how to apply on-line when their admission to the University is confirmed. A certain amount of University accommodation is normally available to students admitted through Clearing, though some Clearing applicants will normally have to live in the private sector, and Clearing students living relatively locally will be asked to remain at home for the first few weeks of session. Residential Services will assist with private sector accommodation arrangements for all first year students who are unable to travel from home and for whom no university accommodation is available, provided an application for accommodation is received at least one week prior to the start of session.

Those who enter via Clearing are sent this information with their formal offer of a place, you will then be able to submit an online application.

Exchange Students

The Application for Accommodation for exchange students forms part of the Admission form and should be sent by the Exchange Co-ordinator in Swansea. The two forms must be returned together. A leaflet "Essential Accommodation Information for Exchange Students" will be sent at the same time.

Making An Application

To complete the on-line application form you will need:

Student Number - 6 digit number e.g. (123456) this can be found on the top of your letter from the Admissions office Date of Birth - dd/mm/yyyy Email Address - all correspondence will be via an email Firm Accommodation Choice - 10 choices are required to complete the application.

If you have lost or have not received a Student Number please contact the accommcontracts@swansea.ac.uk

If you have any question/problems relating to your application please email: accommodation@swansea.ac.uk with your student number.