{"id":1619,"date":"2014-11-28T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:37:05","slug":"the-bu-academic-excellence-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/11\/28\/the-bu-academic-excellence-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"The BU Academic Excellence Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2014\/11\/Gemma-Jewell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1563\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2014\/11\/Gemma-Jewell.jpg\" alt=\"Gemma-Jewell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m going to be talking about the <a title=\"Academic Excellence Scholarship\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/fees-funding\/undergraduate-scholarships\/uk-student-scholarships\/bu-academic-excellence-scholarship-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Academic Excellence Scholarship<\/a>. It&#8217;s a scholarship worth \u00a31,500 that&#8217;s given out to all students who achieve ABB or above at A-level or Distinction, Distinction, Merit or above in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma. (As always, do check the <a title=\"Academic Excellence Scholarship\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/fees-funding\/undergraduate-scholarships\/uk-student-scholarships\/bu-academic-excellence-scholarship-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terms and conditions!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an unlimited amount of scholarships available so nobody misses out; the only thing you need to do is achieve the grades! There is also no need to apply, because the scholarships are automatically handed out; BU will contact you if you have received this great bonus.<\/p>\n<p>I was given my scholarship after I received A*A*B at A-Levels. I didn\u2019t know about the scholarship before I applied so it came as a great surprise to me when I was told that I\u2019d received one. I now wonder what I would have done without it! The money is paid in nine equal installments throughout the first year and is loaded onto a prepaid card.<\/p>\n<p>I use this extra money to do my weekly food shopping, pay for travel expenses, buy books as well as other essentials. It\u2019s also a nice little back up in case I run out of money one month. I know from speaking to other people that having this money takes away the pressure of getting a part-time job in first year. Having the scholarship money leaves me more time to focus on my studies and other social activities.<\/p>\n<p>Not all universities offer such a good scholarship so it\u2019s definitely one of many reasons why people should study at Bournemouth University!<\/p>\n<p><em>By Gemma Jewell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to be talking about the BU Academic Excellence Scholarship. It&#8217;s a scholarship worth \u00a31,500 that&#8217;s given out to all students who achieve ABB or above at A-level or Distinction, Distinction, Merit or above in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma. (As always, do check the terms and conditions!) There\u2019s an unlimited amount of scholarships&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/11\/28\/the-bu-academic-excellence-scholarship\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about The BU Academic Excellence Scholarship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,55,130,256,254,137,255,257,69,40],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-application","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu-scholarships","tag-gemma-jewell","tag-money","tag-scholarships","tag-scholarships-at-bournemouth","tag-students","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}