A record number of students have been accepted into UK universities within 24 hours of receiving their A-level results, according to the latest figures from the admissions body Ucas.
By midnight on Thursday, 401,540 applicants had been accepted for undergraduate courses, 9% up on the same time in 2012.
This is also higher than 2011, the year before tuition fees trebled to £9,000.
Fewer students have entered the Ucas clearing process than last year.
The latest figures from Ucas, published a day after students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level results, show fewer have entered clearing than last year - 153,070, down almost 9,000 on 2012.
Almost 30,000 courses were advertised on the clearing website where Ucas matches students without places to degree courses which are not yet full.
Top universities with vacant places have been competing for students with better grades than anticipated.
Many universities which do not always enter clearing have done so this year.
A spokesman for the Russell Group, who represent 24 leading universities, said all but six had been in clearing.
'Powerful' resultsGovernment reforms this year mean universities can take as many students as they like with ABB grades or above.
Last year the threshold was higher, at AAB, which left some top universities with empty places.
Students were able to begin making choices through the clearing website from 17:00 BST on Thursday.
End Quote University of Manchester spokesmanWe are likely to be full later on Friday and certainly by early next week"
The Russell Group said that from what they could tell the places were being filled very quickly.
The spokesman added that students with ABB who may want to trade up to a more popular degree course "are well aware that they have a powerful set of results".
He said that it was not yet clear how much longer Russell Group universities would remain in clearing this year and that Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Bristol and LSE had not entered the process.
A spokesman for The University of Manchester said they had started with 300 places in clearing - but many had been filled and on Friday there were around 100 vacancies left "mainly in modern languages".
He added: "We are likely to be full later on Friday and certainly by early next week."
The spokesman also said that despite the empty places, The University of Manchester was unlikely to be offering places to anyone with less than three B grades.
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