Waited 200+ days until YESTERDAY to receive a response from the university only to be rejected on the basis of my GCSE grades. If this was the case then I should've been rejected alongside hundreds of applicants who also applied months ago as students with "bad" grades keep in mind, still met the grade requirement were all filtered out and instantly rejected. So I'm not understanding why it took months to consider my application when the reason I got rejected was simply just GCSEs? I think GCSEs as a criteria is also silly because how are you judging an individual's ability and interest in the course that they want to study over an exam which they completed practically two years ago at this point now. Even other universities like Cambridge don't even consider GCSEs as a criteria. That also leads me on to my second point where there is a minimum grade threshold for GCSEs yet your application isn't considered just because you didn't achieve all grade 8s and 9s. What's the point of having a minimum grade when despite meeting it, you will be rejected because of it? Do the personal statements and predicted grades not hold greater weight? Even worse, when I went to a careers fair a couple months back to ask whether GCSE grades even mattered at all because I had read online that LSE were one of the universities who considered GCSEs in the process the most, to which the answer I received was that LSE did not care about these grades as long as you have met the criteria. So I'm not sure where that rep was coming from when she said it didn't matter when the reality is that students get rejected just because they didn't get all 8s and 9s every single year even if their personal statement was up to par, and had the best predicted grades in the world. I wasn't very upset about the rejection yesterday but finding out today that I got rejected because of poor GCSEs just frustrated me because you're telling me I was given 200 days of false hope thinking my application was competitive enough to be considered only to be rejected because I had poor GCSEs. It would've been better if I had been rejected months ago but leaving it until the last week before A-levels is just a stretch and a mental strain that could've been avoided if i was given a decision earlier.