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Top universities with vacant places are competing for students with better grades than anticipated through the Ucas adjustment and clearing process.
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 were in clearing.
Almost 30,000 courses were advertised on the clearing website where Ucas matches students without places to degree courses which are not yet full.
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.
'Powerful' results
Government 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.
A spokesman for the Russell Group said that from what they could tell the places were being filled very quickly.
He 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".
"From what we can tell the pool of students is drying up," he said.
The spokesman added that it was not yet clear how much longer Russell Group universities would remain in clearing this year.
He said that Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Bristol and LSE had not entered the process.
A spokesman for 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, University of Manchester was unlikely to be offering places to anyone with less than three B grades.
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