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Firm and insurance choices
The firm choice is the offer an applicant accepts as first choice. The insurance choice is a second offer kept as a backup.
Summary
- Both are picked from the offers the applicant has received.
- UCAS describes the insurance choice as the one accepted "just in case" the conditions of the firm offer are not met.
- An applicant who accepts an unconditional offer cannot make an insurance choice.
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