Applications for students entering Year 12/first year of college have now closed. Applications will reopen in September 2025 for students in Year 12.

If your school or college is not currently working with a Realising Opportunities (RO) university on the programme, and you think other students would benefit, you can speak to a teacher (usually a head of year or a careers adviser). Ask them to contact any of the RO universities they are interested in working with to see if they have capacity to take on a new school and point them to our information for teachers.

Realising Opportunities (RO) is a two-year programme, which means that students need to be in year 12 or the first year of college to apply.

We realise that this will be disappointing news, however we would recommend contacting any of the RO universities you are interested in applying to directly, to enquire about alternative support or activities you may be eligible for. View the list of Partner university contacts here.

Don’t worry – updating student event attendance is a manual process so can take some time. If it has been more than a week since you attended the event, please contact the RO Partner university which ran the event to check with them. You can find contact details for the RO Partner universities here.