{"id":2869,"date":"2015-07-23T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:35:33","slug":"i-changed-courses-through-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/07\/23\/i-changed-courses-through-clearing\/","title":{"rendered":"I changed courses through Clearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Being an international student, applying for universities can be overwhelming. The Clearing experience was much better than I expected, and one that I\u2019m glad I went through.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I went through Clearing three years ago, when I was at a different university studying a different degree, which was LLB Law. I didn\u2019t enjoy the course and my previous university, so after long conversations with the relevant people, I decided to change university and degree. At that time it was too late to apply in the usual way, so I had to go through Clearing. I didn\u2019t know much about the procedure, but through looking at UCAS, and the universities I wanted to go to, it became a lot clearer and easier.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2879\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2015\/07\/Doug-politics.jpg\" alt=\"Doug politics\" width=\"669\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From what I remember, once I had decided on my UCAS options the process was very quick. I was contacted by Bournemouth University to discuss my reason for the application and why I was changing universities and my degree. The exchange of emails happened quickly and helped me a lot, then within two weeks of applying I got an interview from the programme coordinator, which took place through Skype. After the interview, the process was quick and I received an acceptance within a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The process was easy, and not as stressful as I thought it would be. The programme coordinator helped me collect the documents I needed, and directed me to the relevant people that I needed to speak to for the application to run through smoothly. After sending off my documents, the response was quick and I was notified of my acceptance within a week. The whole process took about a month, and after studying for three years at Bournemouth University, I can say it\u2019s one of the best decisions I have made.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2015\/07\/Doug-and-NESSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2878\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2015\/07\/Doug-and-NESSA.jpg\" alt=\"Doug and NESSA\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em>By Douglas Tham<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas is a current student from the USA and has just completed his final year of <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bournemouth.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate-degree\/politics\/ba-hons\/5002\/course_information-course_overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BA (Hons) Politics and Media<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> You can find out more about Clearing on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/clearing-2015?utm_source=UG-blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=Clearing2015&amp;utm_content=changingcourses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an international student, applying for universities can be overwhelming. The Clearing experience was much better than I expected, and one that I\u2019m glad I went through. I went through Clearing three years ago, when I was at a different university studying a different degree, which was LLB Law. I didn\u2019t enjoy the course and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/07\/23\/i-changed-courses-through-clearing\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about I changed courses through Clearing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,214,104,432,69,40],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-clearing","tag-courses","tag-douglas-tham","tag-students","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","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\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}