Applying for Uni 2020

[daydreamornot]

Thought it may be nice to have a 2020 support thread, everyone welcome! (maybe Oxbridge posts could be kept to the Oxbridge thread).

Someone I am working with dropped out after 7 weeks. He says he has loans to repay of £4k.

Yes, I think the first term’s loans would need repaying if you left at that stage. That’s fees and whatever maintenance loan you had.

www.ucas.com/finance/student-finance-england/suspending-or-withdrawing-your-full-time-studies

Quite steep!

This may interest some of you - could affect where your DC want to apply to (especially if other unis follow B'hams retreat )
I made a new thread as it might be of interest to others so didn't want to plonk it on your thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/3691210-birmingham-drops-unconditional-offers-times-today

25% frrom day 1 Millicent! I hadn't realised. It does put a new perspective on the advice often given to dteens who are getting cold feet to go and give it a try! Not sure that is the best advice any more.

On the other hand, once you're there you might as well stick it out for a term to see if it improves, as there is no fee benefit in leaving earlier!

I wish she could look at Birmingham, unconditional or not. It's many hundreds of miles closer to home than Edinburgh.

Could...would.

Anyone else going to Nottingham and York this weekend?

We're doing both so see you there - is there a secret Mumsnet signal so we can sort each other?

Should be spot each other

Can you have a bag of Pom Bears poking out of the top of your bag or would you prefer to clutch a penis breaker wineoclock?

would you prefer to clutch a penis breaker

Painful typo of the year...

Round of applause please. I think I deserve one.

I'm in Nottingham ... just waiting for DD to wake up. She's a creature of habit, so we'll be in the front row, left hand side, of the maths talk . Woe betide anyone that gets there first!

She's a creature of habit, so we'll be in the front row, left hand side, of the maths talk

At university, I always went for the third row on the left hand side of the lecture theatre. Another student did the same, so we would often sit together.

Reader, I married him.

An accountant I know quit the day job in his 30s after winning enough in a Sky poker tournament yo take semi retirement. He plays the odd tournament now and takes an occasional short term contract.

I think I became the official thread weirdo the moment I typed penis breaker TBH.

Not much to report here. DS in process of gathering predictions - definite A from philosophy, verbal A from English but not sure if psychology is going to be B or C. post-AS he has been working at a B and the most difficult topic is now making sense so fingers crossed for a B.

That's encouraging Loose. Has he decided on his final 5?

Not quite - if the prediction is AAB he can do Warwick as aspirational, Birmingham meets standard offer and Southampton - current favourite.
He's thinking about Nottingham and UEA.

@LooseAtTheSeams - Cross fingers for your DS that he gets the B.

DD has a final meeting with HOS on Friday and then it's just a waiting game until she will submit the application mid-October.

It's a beautiful day in Nottingham. DD has gone off with a friend. I studied here for a postgraduate course, so it's interesting seeing it from her perspective. I basically ignored things like halls of residence as we all lived out.

Just found my old department and I'm sitting in a familiar spot with a panini and coffee .