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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 25, 2003
hey! get this! Aston offered me too now!!!!! Yey! Ive got my 1st and 2nd choice now, in the right order tooo! WoW!
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Sneaky_v_2 Posted Nov 25, 2003
Sorry to sound so American, but what does all these letters and order of acceptance really have to do with obtaining a higher education? Here a person has to apply to several uni's hoping to be accepted by a good one, then all that is left is the money, or lack thereof. Why does it seem that a uni is offering you grades before you ever crack a book? That just seems a bit weird to me.
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 25, 2003
hey sneaky! welcome back... let me see. Here, we apply to 6 unis. The unis make you an offer (you hope). The offer is either points of grades, from 3 a-levels. You have a first choice and a second choice (you choose these out of the replys from the unis) and then you try to get the grades to get on the course. If you miss the first choice you go for the second choice and if you miss the second choice, you go through clearing, where you ring up lots of unis and beg to be let on the course 
if i missed out, someone tell me!
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 25, 2003
wahey! I got it right!
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Sneaky_v_2 Posted Nov 25, 2003
Alright. So, just to make sure I understand (I'm occasionally impossibly dense), after applying to a uni, they send you what basically amounts to a 'you are accepted if' kind of deal and then you go bonkers trying to meet the 'if'. By this point you only have two chances (or iff's) to get into a uni without wholesale begging. That actually makes more sense than the system here where you go bonkers trying to meet the 'if' and then apply to as many uni's as it takes, suffering horrible anxiety attacks for the last two years of high school. There are also a few formalized (fill in the dot) tests that can moderate the gradings from the last four years of public education. If all that effort and anxiety pay off, there is suddenly a very large debt piled upon the student to pay for the higher education. I think a bachelors degree here costs somewhere around 30k (American dollars, I think that would still be about 20-22k British, or the equivalent of the first year's pay after uni, whichever makes the most sense), for a run of the mill uni.
Tanx for the explanation.
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 25, 2003
Yeah, thats pretty much it. Our students end up with a debt around 15thou at the end of say 3 years (is that about right?) but basically thats it.
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Nov 25, 2003
it depends how much of the loan you take out
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 26, 2003
mmm complicated. My bro's had a debt of about 10000 but the army payed for the rest of his stuffs...
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Nov 26, 2003
yup well borrowing is what keeps this country's economy going
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 27, 2003
indeed...
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Nov 27, 2003
morning hun yok?
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 27, 2003
vaguely
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Nov 28, 2003
whats up anything I can help with, if only to lend an ear and shoulder to?
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Patron Saint of Kittens... aka Pantherlady THE Werepanther of h2g2 and Queen of BBNs Posted Nov 28, 2003
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