Living at home during university

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Do you think kids miss out a lot by living at home during university?

DD wants to go to an university in London; we live in London; she thinks she will move out but I have asked her to check cost of living which she did. I said we can support with around 8k a year.

If she wants to move out I said she will need maintenance loan plus fees loan. If she stay at home we could put some of the 8k towards student fees. Less debt.

Perhaps she can try student accommodation for a year? She is already quite independent, cook her breakfast and lunches, do her laundry, help with shopping, very sensible with money and matured. Prefers socialising with a small group of friends than big parties.

How guaranteed is a UCL offer if you have 4A*s predicted?

Not sure your question is relevant to the thread, is it? You might get more answers if you start a new thread with a relevant title.

My DS was predicted 4 AStars. His UCL offer was for AStar, A, A. I'm not sure that helps answer your question though as it will depend on the course and how many applications it gets. If you look on Whatdoyouknow.com there are lots of statistics requested, so you may find something relevant, or else ask them your own question for the relevant course.

They are very over-subscribed, and just under 50% of their students are lucrative international fee-payers.

@rellativly it was more of a thing as if OP's DD likely to get an offer at a top London uni? Given her grades and academic ability etc would she have the option to go to one of these unis

Why are you asking? The op's dd wants to go to a London uni - she didn't say UCL. There are other London uni's that are less selective. Whether she gets an offer or not isn't relevant to the op's high level general question about London uni's.

A decade back DS was rejected by UCL with 4XA* 1xA. Cambridge and Warwick did the same, albeit for economics which was always brutally competitive. There is an element of lottery. The advice he was given was that he was good enough for a top University. Apply to all, take what you are offered (in his case LSE) and have a gap year as a fall back.

And yes, he had hoped to move away, but fate had other ideas, and staying at home was fine. Like many students he liked where he went and if he were to go back with the knowledge he had, LSE would be his top choice. Indeed he picked LSE over an offer from Oxford for his Masters, with money being a big factor.