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Mon, 06/04/2009 - 20:35
Date: February 2003
Applying for tuition fee support and a student loan
The first section was pretty easy to fill in - just a few personal details, with the exception of which...
Mon, 06/04/2009 - 20:31
Date received: 31/08/2002
I got the Essex accommodation form along with the acceptance pack which Essex sent me. I knew I had to get this filled in and back to Essex pretty quick, as even...
Mon, 06/04/2009 - 20:29
Date: 20/08/2003
Everything about Essex seemed ok so I thought this might be where I ended up
Today I went to the open day at Essex University. Essex was on my shortlist along with Reading and...
Mon, 06/04/2009 - 20:28
Date: around ?/09/2002
After being given the application form I still hadn't made up my mind
The decision to apply to Oxford was quite a difficult one to make. Originally I would say to people that...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:50
Date: 15/08/2003
I narrowed down my options and stated to concentrate on clearing
It was now the day after results day, and I had to decide what to do next. I worked out I had four options:
Go...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:47
Date: 10/09/2003
A table from MSN money made it pretty easy to compare accounts
Having received a letter from the Student Loan Company, updating my course details, I thought it was probably time to...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:46
Date: around ?/09/2002
By thinking about my own preferences and opinions I chose six universities from eleven
On the UCAS form there were six spaces to fill in the universities...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:44
Date: around ?/09/2002
I singled in on economics and maths combining two of my favourite subjects
Now I had an idea of what universities I might want to go to from the Decide...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:42
Date: 16/08/2003
Time to see what's available in clearing
I now started contacting universities on my initial clearing list, to see if they could offer me places. The first universities I contacted...
Sun, 05/04/2009 - 12:40
I am keeping a record of my passage to university on this page. I have tried to list every important event and talk about what I did and why.
These pages are generally a personal description of...
Wed, 01/04/2009 - 21:47
Even though most of Studential is written and designed by Tom and Naomi, there are many other people who have helped us out. This page is aimed at giving recognition to everyone who has contributed...
Wed, 01/04/2009 - 21:30
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Wed, 01/04/2009 - 21:28
We're always interested to hear your views on Studential and how you think we could make the site better. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or anything else to say about the site, you...
Wed, 01/04/2009 - 21:26
Studential.com is owned and managed by a small team in Oxfordshire. We aim to help all students aged 16 and older with their academic journey, by offering information and advice on all stages of...
Wed, 01/04/2009 - 21:15
The archive contains old pages from the site that are unlikely to be useful or relevant to current or prospective students.These pages are kept here for reference but are no longer updated, so it's...
Sun, 22/02/2009 - 16:14
There are lots of students out there talking about university firsthand in blogs or on their own websites.
Reading some of them will give you a good idea of what it's like to be a student, or study...
Sun, 04/01/2009 - 11:14
Date received: 15/01/2003
The oxford offer completed the set of responses from universities
My last offer though Ucas was the offer from Oxford, probably because I spent a long time thinking about...
Sun, 04/01/2009 - 11:13
Date received: 19/12/2003
An impossibly high offer limited my chances of going to Warwick
Today I received my offer from Warwick along with some terms and conditions which made it look much more...
Sun, 04/01/2009 - 11:13
Date received: 21/11/2002
My first offer from a university - they want me after all
I got my first conditional offer from a university today. It was from Bristol they wanted, AAB with the A in...
Sun, 04/01/2009 - 11:12
Date: around ?/09/2002
It looked pretty complex but it wasn't all that bad - the hard part was making the choices now I just had to write them down
Now I knew what courses and universities I was...