Yes it is a UCAS specific reference fortunately! I had gotten some help navigating the application process with Warwick’s North American outreach team last year around May and they had given me a ton of info about UCAS references which I then gave to my counselor. They said they had read it and understood that they should be talking to my subject specific teachers about grade predictions and my overall academic ability. I just got a little worried because I saw a number of forum posts mentioning how Oxford applications will usually have a reference from a teacher saying “X was the best student I’ve had the past Y years.” I basically posted because I was worried that there was some rule I had missed saying references for top universities had to come from teachers directly. My counselor has likely written a great reference in the proper format for UCAS! I’ll check in with them over the next few days to be sure they did it totally right and included all my teachers quotes directly!
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