Access to Leeds application guidelines

When you apply to Access to Leeds you will be asked if you have completed and submitted your UCAS application.

If you have not yet submitted your completed application to your chosen universities, you will not be able to progress with the application.

Please return to apply to Access to Leeds once you have submitted your UCAS application.  

UCAS ID number: Please enter your 10-digit personal ID. Check carefully to ensure this is correct, as we will use this to track your application.  

Home postcode: This should match the postcode on your UCAS application, and is the address you would consider to be your permanent or main home.  

Email address: Correspondence from the Access to Leeds team will be via email. Where possible, try to provide a personal email address instead of a school email address, which you may lose access to at the end of the school year, whilst still participating in the scheme.

Parent/Carer/Alternative email address: Every cycle we have a number of emails that are returned as undeliverable, often when mailboxes are full or are blocking our emails.  This field is optional for you to provide an alternative email which we can use to contact you if your original email bounces back.  It will not be used for any other purpose. 

Please inform the Access to Leeds team if you change your email address, so that you do not miss out on any important information. If you don’t inform us of any changes, we cannot take responsibility for you not receiving information regarding your application or other elements of the scheme. 

Use this section to let us know if you have participated in any other programmes at the University of Leeds. This includes but is not limited to:

• Reach for Excellence
• Leeds Futures – Dentistry
• Leeds Futures – Healthcare
• Leeds Futures – Medicine
• Leeds Futures - Psychology
• or if you are a previous Access to Leeds eligible applicant.  

If applicable, you will need to enter your Futures or Reach for Excellence ID as you will not be able to proceed with your application without this. We will check your participation in these programmes and may contact you asking for more information.

If this is not your first time applying to Access to Leeds, you will also be asked to input the criteria you meet and provide details of a referee. However, we will not contact them automatically. We will check your previous participation and may contact you if we have any related questions.  
 

You will need to enter the full name and email address of your referee. It is very important that you carefully check that their email address is correct, as they will receive an automatic notification to complete your reference.  

Please ensure you have spoken to your referee to advise them that you are applying to Access to Leeds and that they should expect to receive a reference request to their email.  It is your responsibility to ensure that your referee also completes their section by the Access to Leeds deadline for your chosen course.

In this section, you must indicate which Access to Leeds criteria you believe you meet by answering yes or no to each point.

If you select ‘care experience’ or ‘personal circumstances, you will be prompted to provide some additional details in a text box. Please be aware there is a character limit to this answer, so you will need to be brief. You will also be asked to detail the impact any circumstances have had on your education.

Household income criteria 

If you state that you are eligible under the ‘Household income under £25,000’ criteria and are not entitled to free school meals or the 16-19 bursary, your parent/carer must complete an additional Declaration of Household Income form. A link to this online form will be sent to you by email if you have ticked the box ‘Your parent/carer will submit evidence of household income’. Please ensure this is completed by your parent/carer/main income earner as soon as possible.

It is your responsibility to ensure that this is submitted by the Access to Leeds deadline for your chosen course.

If you are eligible under free school meals or the 16-19 bursary please do not also select “Your parent/carer will submit evidence of household income” as this is not required and may delay processing of your application.
 

Please type your name in the signature box to confirm that the information provided is true, complete and accurate. This box must not be left blank or the application will not be processed until complete. 

Once your application is submitted, you will not be able to go back and change anything. You will receive an email confirmation upon completion.  

Once your referee has completed the reference request, you will receive another email confirmation that this has been done.  

Your eligibility information will be automatically emailed to your referee, so you should speak to them about any circumstances that they will be expected to verify in their reference for you.  

Find further information on what happens after you apply.

A teacher, tutor, or careers advisor can complete the reference request, indicating which eligibility criteria the applicant meets.

For applicants who are not currently in education, an employer or previous tutor can complete this section. 

Please provide details of your name, job title, relationship to the applicant, and email address so that the University can contact you if we need any additional information that can support the application. 

As a referee for the application, we need you to confirm the applicant’s eligibility for the Access to Leeds scheme, to the best of your knowledge.  

The answers provided by the applicant are displayed at the top of this section, and they have been advised to speak to you about any personal circumstances. Please indicate yes or no to each of the criteria points. Please see the eligibility guidelines for more details. 

If the applicant’s education has been disrupted or they are care-experienced, you must provide additional details of the impact this has had on their education in the space provided. 

We do not usually ask for any additional supporting evidence of an applicant’s personal circumstances, so confirmation to the best of your knowledge is completely acceptable. 

Referee declaration: Please type your name in the signature box to confirm that the information is accurate, to the best of your knowledge. This box must not be left blank or the application will not be processed until complete.