Part of the university's arts building has been turned into an "admissions mission control centre" where an expected 8, 000 telephone calls will be managed.
The government has come under pressure to ensure all children have an equal chance of getting into the best-performing schools in the wake of its plans to create "trust" schools which would have control their own admissions criteria.
There are around 450, 000 dogs in Wales, but the Welsh government says evidence from a database of hospital admissions suggests more are becoming out of control.
Meanwhile, operations have been cancelled and admissions to wards restricted in an attempt to control a winter virus which has hit two north Wales hospital.
Joe Tildesley, the councillor responsible for children and young people for Conservative-run Solihull Council, admitted the authority had no control over how the academy sets its admissions policy.