The bit other tools skip
Every Scottish university publishes a standard offer and a lower minimum entry offer for widening access, and they all publish them differently: buried on a course page, split across two tables, with the essential subjects written out in a paragraph. A pupil who qualifies for the lower offer usually has no idea it exists, because finding it means opening a few hundred tabs.
The calculator shows both. Tick widening access and the lower offers come up as their own tier, so a pupil can see the courses that are open to them under the contextual offer and the ones that are open to anyone.
What a pupil gets back
- You qualify. Every course their grades already meet, across all ten universities at once.
- One grade short. The courses a single grade would open up, which is the whole argument for a resit in one list.
- Out of reach. Still shown, with the offer, so they can see by how much.
- What one more grade is worth. If they've got a B, it counts how many more courses that B becoming an A would qualify them for.
Every result links straight to the official course page.
Where it earns its place
- Subject choice, S4 and S5. The grade pages work backwards: pick a set of Highers and see what it gets you, broken down by subject area.
- One-to-one interviews. Type the grades in front of the pupil instead of working through university websites together.
- Course choice and parents' evenings. The link goes on a slide or in a newsletter, and it works on a phone in the room.
- Pupils weighing up a resit. The "one grade short" list turns a vague maybe into a number.
Facts before you share it
- Who it’s for
- S4 to S6 in Scotland
- Universities
- Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, QMU, Robert Gordon, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde
- Not in it yet
- Napier, Caledonian, Abertay, UWS, UHI. No college or HN routes
- Courses
- 1,506
- Entry year
- 2027
- Where the data comes from
- Each university’s own course pages
- Last checked
- September 2026
- Cost
- Free. No account, no sign-up, nothing to install
- Runs on
- Any browser, school laptops and phones included
Pupil data
Grades stay in the browser. There's no account, no login and no form to fill in, and nothing a pupil types is sent anywhere. The site counts page views and which links get clicked, never what's typed into a field. The privacy page spells out the lot.
What it isn't
It isn't an offer and it isn't advice. Universities set their own requirements and change them, so the official course page is always the answer, and every result links to it. It isn't affiliated with any university, UCAS or the SQA, and it doesn't cover Scotland's other five universities yet.
Who's behind it
I'm 17, in Scotland, sitting Highers again outside of school. I built this because I needed it: I wanted to know what my grades were actually worth, and the answer was spread across hundreds of pages nobody had put together. The data gets checked against the official pages and every guide says when it was last looked at.
Spotted something wrong?
Tell me and I'll fix it. A course missing, a requirement that's moved, an offer that reads wrong: email mrmoo@mrmoo.world with the course and what its page says, and it gets corrected. Corrections from guidance staff are the most useful email I get.
Passing it on
Here's a line you can paste into a newsletter, a Glow page or a year group post.