{"id":2942,"date":"2015-08-10T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:35:27","slug":"ursulas-clearing-story-making-my-student-finance-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/08\/10\/ursulas-clearing-story-making-my-student-finance-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula’s Clearing story: making my student finance application"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ursula-1\"<\/a>Unsure yet and keeping my options open by\u00a0continuing to\u00a0apply for UCAS, it seemed daunting that university could be round the corner.<\/p>\n

From what I can remember, when applying for UCAS, I decided on taking a gap year and so deferred my entry for the following year, not knowing this choice was very much temporary!<\/p>\n

Saying that, it was one of the best choices\u00a0I\u2019ve made. Not fully making up\u00a0my decision to go to university until sitting on a beach during the summer break, was you could say, risky.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0the relief of knowing I could still go ahead with applying, though late,\u00a0allowed me to\u00a0solidify the choice of going to university that same year as well as which\u00a0course I was hoping to take – this being the main reason I was unsure of uni in the first place!<\/p>\n

The Clearing process itself was a lot smoother than I had previously expected. It gave me the confidence of ensuring I still stood a chance of going to one of my chosen universities.<\/p>\n

It was then that I made the relevant changes like applying for Student Finance. Even though I was late to apply for this also, it only meant the\u00a0finance\u00a0reaching my bank\u00a0was later than my flat mates’ (which meant a hold-up on the shopping spree)!<\/p>\n

Though Student Finance was easy enough, I made sure I rung for help for anything I wasn\u2019t sure of. They were always willing to\u00a0reassure me on my application and advise me\u00a0with possible calculations in relation to\u00a0tuition fees,\u00a0maintenance loans and grants.<\/p>\n\"Ursula-2-Edited!!\"<\/a>\n

With only the universities of my choice left to call, I ensured I asked\u00a0questions\u00a0such as if they offered placements, whether abroad or not, what\u00a0the duration of the course was if so\u00a0and if the option to study a language alongside my course was available.\u00a0UCAS advised I should call the universities on results day – I must have called over 10 that day!<\/p>\n

In the end, it appeared that Bournemouth was all round the university for me. The course was the most appealing as well as the placement option and not to mention the welcoming response received from\u00a0Chris Willetts (currently one of my lecturers).<\/p>\n

It has definitely\u00a0proven to be\u00a0a better late than never experience!<\/p>\n

By Ursula Allam<\/em><\/p>\n

You can find out more about Clearing on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unsure yet and keeping my options open by\u00a0continuing to\u00a0apply for UCAS, it seemed daunting that university could be round the corner. From what I can remember, when applying for UCAS, I decided on taking a gap year and so deferred my entry for the following year, not knowing this choice was very much temporary! Saying… Read more » about Ursula’s Clearing story: making my student finance application<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[130,48,214,136,69,151,42,443],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-clearing","tag-finance-2","tag-students","tag-tips","tag-ucas","tag-ursula-allam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13842,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/13842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}