After you apply: Overview

The Clearing House does not make decisions about who is successful at each stage of selection: this is done by the courses, but we wish you the best of luck!

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After you submit your Application

After submitting your Application you will see:

a list of the courses you have applied to
your application is Not released to course centres (see section below about Releasing Applications)
the Confirm Action button is only relevant after your Application has been released (see section below about Withdrawing Your Application)
if you have not paid your fee yet, you will see information about payment

After you submit your Application you will be asked to pay the fee and given details of when payment is due. It can take up to 24 hours to match payments to applications. So if you have paid your fee and, when you login the next day, this is not showing:

please see the Fees You Pay page for details of what to do

Documents

GBC document

We will check your GBC document to ensure that it covers all the information required. If you submit your Application in the 2 weeks before the closing date it may not be checked until after the Christmas break, because so many applications are submitted at that time:

Please see the Documents: GBC page if you need more information about GBC

We may contact you about your Application, usually by email. Your email software may treat our emails as junk or spam, so please check your Junk/Spam Email folder(s) regularly.

If we contact you please respond promptly as we may not be able to release your Application to the courses until we hear from you.

Releasing Applications

We release your Application (with the Suitability Statements) to the courses as soon as practical after:

we have checked your GBC document
your nominees have submitted both of your Suitability Statements
you have paid your fee in full

How will I know when my Application is released?

Your Application will change from "Not released to course centres" to:

Application released to course centres:
this gives the courses access to your Application to begin their short-listing process (see the Short-listing page for more information).

We email you to let you know that your Application has been released. Your email software may treat our emails as junk or spam, so please check your Junk/Spam Email folder(s) regularly.

When are applications released?

We release applications to the courses in batches of approximately 100.

The first batch is usually released in November when enough applications are ready. Batches are then released regularly, throughout December and January.

Courses consider all applications we release to them, regardless of which batch an application is in.

The final batch will be released on 30 January 2026.

Withdrawing your Application

Once your Application has been released to the courses you can withdraw it if you need to:

login to your application
choose Withdraw for the appropriate course(s)
click Confirm Action

Confirming will email the course(s) concerned.

You cannot use this to replace one course with another e.g. if you applied to 4 courses and you withdraw from one, your Application will only be considered by the remaining 3 courses.

The Clearing House can accept no responsibility for errors in the handling of applications howsoever caused. By accepting your application we are not confirming your eligibility for entry to courses.

After you apply