As a UCAS student, be prepared to spend many a free period constantly refreshing track or your emails...
When a university replies to your offer you will get an email notification saying that 'your status has changed' with a link to your track, when you have your offer, click on it and it will give you your conditions. These will outline what it is you need to achieve for the university to grant you a place (Unless you are lucky enough to be granted an Unconditional offer!), and range from UCAS points to grades, to extra qualifications. Make sure you read these offers very carefully and consider them. Also have a look to see how above or below the standard offer for your course they are, this can give an indication of either a) how much they like and want you or b) how over/under subscribed your course is!
If you are unfortunate enough to receive any rejections, it is worth emailing them to find out why, in case there is a mistake, or you can learn from an error in your application.
Once you have heard back from all of your universities, you have a certain amount of time to respond to these offers (this will be displayed in your track). Think very carefully about which university offer to select as your Firm and your Insurance, and make sure, unless you really badly want that firm, that your insurance choice has a lower requirement than your firm!
You have to select from a menu either 'Firm' , 'Insurance' or 'Decline' for each course that you have applied for, and (last year at least) you had to select the options all at once.
Best of luck to all. I hope this was clear as I feel I rambled a tad!
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