UCAS part deux

[wolfeeh]

ok i know i posted this body text on the end of my last UCAS post, but it suddenly struck me that it's worthy of an entire new thread etc, so:

right, you might or might not have noticed that i wanna leave wales and study in engerlander ja? now having applied through ucas for a HND before, and done the whole student loan thing, etc i know for a fact that my "residual income" is of a level that i will have to pay full tuition fees, and not get a full loan...

now this was great and dandy at the time, i really didn't give a shit living at home and whatnot...

but i've just spent the last two years incurring a ~£6000 debt with my HND... i'm trying desperately to find work at the moment, but not getting very far, what with this being wales, and the world being a sorry state etc...

so it's unlikely i'll find a job for a few months yet... and having already experience the reality of long term unemployment a few years ago, i realise that it's POSSIBLE that i might not find a job at all in the intervening year....

none of this would be a problem if i was having financial support off my parents like i was before....

but they're dead set against me going away to uni.. various shit reasons being why have i done a COMPUTING HND if i wanted to do psychology.... it's a waste of money... they'll miss me... etc... so basically their last ditch attempt to stop me from going is to absolutely refuse to help me financially... period. end of.

so how exactly does one tell the local education authority or whoever this? because as far as they're gonna see it... i currently live at home, i have mediumish residual income... i am "undeserving"

help *cries*

 

[~YuckFou~]

A letter from your folks?

I'm sure your parents are lovely people, but their attitude to their son wanting an education is a little surreal.

Good luck.


Oh, I just thought of something else, tell them you are sharing a flat with someone, use a mates address etc, might work.

 

[wolfeeh]

aaaah

but you realise that a letter from my folks counts as "them helping me" so they wouldn't do it....

it may be a little sad to say this right, but my sis and i are all my mum have - she's got severe epilepsy and won't go out of the house without a member of the family because she sometimes comes over all "ill" (this is another matter tbh and not for discussion) so suffice it to say she doesn't exactly make friends... when my sis went to uni she was absolutely heartbroken... and was sooo overjoyed when she came back just a month or so later (boyfriend) but nowadays she never sees my sis, cos her and her boyf are almost at the moving in together stage etc etc... so she'll do ANYTHING on this earth no matter how childish, silly or selfish to prevent me going... you have NO idea of the amount of emotional blackmail i have to cope with on a daily basis but i've finally had enough, because i can't sacrifice my future for her... and she needs to realise that it's only for about 30 weeks a year, there's all sorts of breaks in the middle of term for reading weeks, it's just a few hours on a train to come and visit, or to go home and visit... but she won't have any of that.

fuck i've put too much of a sob story in there but it might make you understand that she absolutely will not let go and anything i have to depend on HER to do to help me out... WILL NOT HAPPEN.

p.s. tell who i'm sharing a flat with someone... and "why"?

 

[~YuckFou~]

Tell UCAS that you've moved, you now share a flat/house. Give them an address of a mate who has his own place, who will accept mail for you etc. Rent books are easily available from WH Smiths. I'm saying fake it.
Immoral, but hey needs must.

 

[wolfeeh]

Oh.

Now i get you.

last resort sorta solution :| but i will bear it in mind should the need arise :|

 

[~YuckFou~]

It is dodgy to say the least, and neither BW nor myself recommend or advocate it. You get my drift though

 

[tris-]

i also say fake it, what will your mum be more proud of : you stayed at home with her or you took all she taught you and went to uni and got a job earning 100k a year?

how can faking it be so bad if you compare it to what refugeese get ffs

 

[wolfeeh]

lol

well i can honestly without a trace of sarcasm tell you she'd be more proud of me staying with her. but it IS NOT gonna happen if i get offered a place in uni

 

[tris-]

Re: lol

Originally posted by wolfeeh
but it IS NOT gonna happen if i get offered a place in uni

 

[old.Kez]

Epileps are funky. Get down with yo' bad self.

 

[tris-]

 

[wolfeeh]

/me pats kez

er... yeh