Roland Perry wrote:

Under that rule I would not have been able to register until four months
after graduating. And that's having taken a "gappy year". For most
University students the October-after-they-became-21 would be after they
graduated, even if born between 1st Sept and whatever the date in October
was.

The market is shifting these days for all manner of reasons such that I
suspect most would now be caught for everything from four year courses to
those taking a year out (now more for raising finances than anything else)
to a growth in the mature and postgraduate market. A few years ago I saw an
academic making a traditional assumption about the majority of first year
students being too young to remember X and checked the UCAS figures (which
don't catch all matures) and it suggested said academic doesn't spend much
time on campus.

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