I need advice regarding my ATAS application for my fully funded PhD at City St George's, University of London.
The university recently merged from City, University of London and St George's, University of London, but in the ATAS application dropdown there was no updated merged university name. There were only separate options.
I emailed the university earlier but did not receive a reply at that time. I also asked consultants and did some research, and they suggested selecting “St George’s, University of London,” so I submitted my ATAS application around 20 days ago for the July intake.
Now the university staff replied and told me I should have selected “City, University of London” and asked me to correct it ASAP because the ATAS system might not yet reflect the university merger.
The problem is there is no edit/update option in my ATAS application. If I submit a new application, I might lose another month of processing time. I am worried because ATAS processing already takes a long time.
Has anyone faced a similar situation? What would you do in this case?