In the 1980s tuition fees were paid by the local education authority, so most students were not even aware there were fees. There were also maintenance grants to cover the basic living costs. These were means tested, based on family income and expenditure
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My aero applications (made in late 1988) were Loughborough and Imperial. Imperial actually had lower requirements, but that might be because Loughborough couldn't be arsed to figure out the Irish equivalents for A-levels.
One small amendment - five, not six, applications via UCCA. At least, when I applied for university in 1978, I could apply to five.
It may be worth mentioning, too, that back in the Olden Days, the offers that were made were very unlikely to be for A grades at A-Level. If a university decided they wanted this particular student, they could make a low offer-a friend who applied to Oxford and passed the Oxbridge entry exam was given an offer of three E grades, ie, pass the A Levels. The offers I received ranged from AAC (Cambridge) via BBC to EEE, depending on where the uni was on my list and whether they really wanted me or not. My subject wasn't engineering, though, so I can't help with other details.
The student would generally pick two - the higher offer would be from the university they most wanted to attend, with a back-up lower-grades offer from another university on the list. If the most-desired university made a nice low offer (say, two Cs or CCE), there'd be no need to bother with a back-up.
It varied a bit by university. For example in 1975 when I applied to read maths, Cambridge wanted A1A1A in pure and applied A & S levels and A level physics. Both Imperial and Durham offered BB in pure and applied. Sheffield and Nottingham offered 1 E. I already had an A grade maths A level taken in the lower sixth. So, long way of saying some universities made pretty much standard offers regardless of whether they liked you. I'd second the various suggestions of loughborough as a good place to do aero w/o stellar grades.
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It may be worth mentioning, too, that back in the Olden Days, the offers that were made were very unlikely to be for A grades at A-Level. If a university decided they wanted this particular student, they could make a low offer-a friend who applied to Oxford and passed the Oxbridge entry exam was given an offer of three E grades, ie, pass the A Levels. The offers I received ranged from AAC (Cambridge) via BBC to EEE, depending on where the uni was on my list and whether they really wanted me or not. My subject wasn't engineering, though, so I can't help with other details.
The student would generally pick two - the higher offer would be from the university they most wanted to attend, with a back-up lower-grades offer from another university on the list. If the most-desired university made a nice low offer (say, two Cs or CCE), there'd be no need to bother with a back-up.
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