tw: another one of my crappy long rambling posts
I did actually point out that problem, stating my only chance would be to get him to sponsor, which given the size of his firm isn't completely out of the question and would come with some form of guarantee of employment,which is perfect. I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't,
you missed the point, you shouldn't even be thinking or writing about the cost of flights home if you're thinking of gunning for harvard, unless you're hopelessly naive about the whole situation?
like if you're thinking harvard as a uk person not only will you need Money but also Top Grade A Levels and wodges of extracirricular activities (pokemon tournaments dont count) if you're gonna stand out from the million other overachievers trying to get in
but it's still annoying that they make it so difficult to get into Universities that you literally have to get a sponsor / scholarship.
if you're talking about the US, then yes, but in the uk most people just get good grades and apply through UCAS these days and swallow the bitter pill that is the £9000 fee increase and are realistic about it
as long as its your first degree then student finance p much fund it cos while there are a lot of stupid operations in this country at least we dont have to secure 20049302389 scholarships not to go broke thru uni, student finance may be a logistical mess but im not sure how i would have afforded uni otherwise
i mean until i was out of sixth form i had idealistic ideas about going to Uni of Toronto until the bitter reality of the logistics came true so a bit of fantasy thinking is alright but if you're serious you'd better start begging now if you want any hope of being ready come end of sixth form,
Loads of talk on this page of things like Harvard and Cambridge and I'm here like "oh I'm thinking of going chester"
...and, annoyingly, I actually wouldn't like the thought of going to Oxford / Cambridge. I'm an idiot.
no, pointless self-flallegation aside its ok to think this
i think oxbridge is decidedly "eh" myself as well, only oxbridge graduate i know was relatively successful career-wise but was a complete social miscreant and a massively infamous furry and there was inc. skeevy stuff going on which i didn't wanna touch with a bargepole
re: choosing a uni, i really really think one ought to strike a balance between "good redbrick" and "doing well for itself ex-poly",
you'll find the "good uni"s often aren't actually that good in practice, and most of the flashy machines etc. is for the postgrads with Money/the brownnosers/Miracle-worker studiers cos they dont trust the scummy new students with the v. expensive machines, also while a lecturer may be a big-name in their field this v rarely equates to teaching talent, you'll find some of them are there purely b/c of their portfolio and have little people skills at all
if you go to a less-good uni they dont have all the flashy stuff nor the research oppurtunities, but they often are way more humble about it and have far better undergrad/postgrad teaching to make up for it, and in some cases much tighter business integration to make up for the lack of academia/research prestige, since it'll be mid/small company sponsors etc. which will be helping them out financially
of course it has to be a balance between the two, if you aim too good you'll be rejected for not being Star Sycophant With Connections, and if you aim too low you'll end up in a horror like london met
i mean take this with a pinch of salt because im a late-diagnosed spacko but i still dragged my way through my crapfest palava and graduated couple of wednesdays ago so //shrug//
well this was my annual carepost about unis, as always while the community is terrible i deffo reccommend all uni-hopefuls to do some investigating about their uni at thestudentroom, p sure they still do the free UCAS Personal Statement workshop thing which helps a lot