Applying for Uni 2019 Part 8: Results Day - congratulations, champagne, clearance, commiserations... Our DC will get through it whatever happens.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Following on from our previous thread.

Good luck to all DC awaiting results and university places.

School question: Is it only the SLT and the Exams Officer(s) who get to see the results today?

notso - forgive me if I have misunderstood the way you worded it, but when you say "After accommodation DD will have around £80 a week left from her maintenance grant and loan." - it doesn't sound as if you have taken tuition fees into account from the loan? Just ignore me if I'm talking through my hat, thank you!

If she has £80 spare she won't need anything from you. My DS's loan won't cover his accommodation so we have to pay for it. The loan he gets (about £4000) will be plenty to live on. They get the largest portion in April, supposedly to take them through the summer.

@MerdedeBrexit there is a separate tuition fees loan which goes direct to the university.

Dunlurking - thank you for the explanation, how ignorant am I! I think I'd best lurk off this thread myself now!

MerdedeBrexit there's a loan for tuition fees and a separate one for maintenance.

@MerdedeBrexit it's amazing how helpful people are and what we can learn on these threads. I'm very grateful for it. Lurk away I say.

Thanks, and sorry for my confusion, notso!

I'm feeling a bit twitchy about the thread expiring soon - @NewModelArmyMayhem18?

MrKlaw yes he/she can bring a rice cooker if it confirms with British safety standards and was purchased in the EU.

Go to Bath website, click on students at the top. Click on student accommodation and scroll down to the list of items to bring and what not to bring.

I would link it but I'm on my phone on the move. HTH.

DS has been allocated Shrubhill accommodation at Edinburgh; it all seems more real and he’s seeming really enthusiastic now, which is great. Anyone know much about it?

notso have you done your sums correctly? Most maintenance loans don't even cover accommodation unless the student is on the maximum maintenance loan and is living in very cheap accommodation.

DD's loan won't cover her accommodation. So we are doing what a lot of parents are doing and paying for her accommodation and she gets the loan for living expenses.

Being in Wales, they base the students' income requirement to be £9225. The less you earn, the more they give you in grant that does not need repaying. The more you earn, the less grant you get. We have a household income above £58k which means DD gets the minimum.

So she has a loan of £9225 for tuition.
And a grant of £1000 and a loan of £8225 for maintenance.

On the plus side, it means she is going to be able to fully fund her accommodation (esp as she's got one of the cheapest lets at York), and will have about £1k left over each term to live on. It means DH and I may put aside what we would have given her and just hold on to it in case she gets stuck at the end of each term, or to be able to help her with next year's deposit while she is still paying for this year's costs - which can be a pain I've heard.

On the downside, it's increased the amount of debt she is in compared to students in England who can't borrow as much, but then who have to rely on parents or jobs to help even cover the accommodation costs.

She will also be looking for a pt job to fit around her studies to help fund extras.
The more independent she can be, without relying on us for handouts, the better.

Sorry @Dunlurking I will do a new one now...Wow that was a record for filling a thread, surely?

I see what you mean by my wording, on top of the tuition fee loan she gets a £1000 grant as well as a maintenance loan.
We're in Wales so there's £9000+ available for maintenance in varying configurations if loan and grant depending on parents income.

@MrKlaw Rice coolers are allowed according to this

www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/things-you-must-not-bring-with-you-when-you-move-into-your-accommodation/

X posted sorry!

Thanks @NewModelArmyMayhem18. Yes unbelievable speed!

New thread. No rush to move over until this one has filled up. Still 33 posts to go.

It’s easy for me to say as DS1 got the max maintenance loan but parents are really expected to make up whatever maintenance loan their DC is eligible for up to the maximum loan. That is how it’s calculated. Those parents whose DC get min loan are supposed to be able to afford the £4.5 k per year top up, that’s why it’s means tested.

There are bursaries available for those on low pay at many universities as long as the parents have agreed to share their income details via SLC with the universities by ticking the relevant box.

DD’s maintenance loan won’t cover catered accommodation at Durham, we have been putting money aside for the last 18 months and will continue to do so. DD has saved over £2.5 k in her part time job also so should be ok.

*DD bought s MAC book last year after saving up and we pay for her phone .

DD earns over £8ph as a barista and hopes to continue work in summer hols. Durham is expensive-£7500-7750 fully catered.

I like the idea of being catered at university. There isn't that option at UEA. At least you know they will be fed. I can't imagine my son cooking anything other than pasta, pizza or beans on toast.

I just read somewhere on FB that pizza is better than cereal for breakfast, icanbewhatiwant. Probably sponsored by the Italian Government, though!

Ha ha. DS would probably prefer cold pizza left overs to cereal. Yuk 😑