How much student loan are you getting?

Is there anyone else that doesn't have a loan, and everything comes from daddy??

From my friendship group, I'm the only one.

Why are you getting nothing? If it's because you don't want to owe anything more than you have to. The grant is non repayable. So you don't have to pay that back.

I go to Canterbury Christ Church, going into my final year.

What'll you be doing?

Nope. Even retired they earn quite a lot. I dont want to have to pay more anyway, so im happy with the loan ive got.
My uni offers those predicted 3 Bs 2500 so hoping to get that (it says nothing anywhere about needing to obtain those grades so i will prove my point and somehow get that).

And i really dont want an overdraft. So money will either go into my normal or savings account emergencys require thinking outside of the box, and hopefully ive planned methodically enough to not need it. Not to sound like a posh **** but ive always got daddy hahah.

And my aunt and whole other family that arent my immediate family haha

Im hoping to go to teesside

Wow that's great and yeah daddy's always there. *cough* and his wallet. So where's teesside? and also what university are you going too?

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Maintenance Loan: £3600
Maintenance Grant: None
Bursaries: None
Scholarships: None
Savings: £600 (so far)
Money from Parents: Id be lucky!!

Accommodation Cost: £5447 For a whole year
Weekly spend after Accommodation: - loads

At the moment im working full time at my job (McDonalds!!) to try and save up enough money to afford my accommodation!! i think i will be getting money from my parents but it will be coming out of my mums disability money which student finance dont seem to understand? Ive got to keep my job while im at uni mainly because i get free food in my break so thats what im going to be living off!!

So wheres teesside? And what university are you going to?

SAAS system isn't exactly fair. They calculate your household income before tax which is ridiculous because after tax, the overall income will have reduced, but I don't qualify anyway. After 34k, SAAS consider you to be well-off which again is ridiculous. Education is free in Scotland so I can't really complain.

Teesside is middlesbrough area. You just asked and i told you! Teesside..

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I could easily, but fees are too high (even if they did pay for 3 children at private shool with higher fees). But i felt i needed to live off my own two feet a bit more.too

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That's a good amount of weekly spend and the accommodation is really cheap. I assume your not in London.

Yeah I know they aren't fair at all. I myself have been lucky for my parents to earn under the threshold, but other aren't that fortunate. SF target the rich and expect them to pay for their child to go to university.

My bad haha. I got mixed up with replying to everybody.

Yeah I totally agree, it's a joke! Everyone should be assessed equally. My household income is 55k+ before tax and it's not as if we are rich, my mum and dad have bills to pay, cars, gas and electricity and there is four of us (two brothers and one sister) They should make the threshold 70k+, that's when families are well-off and comfortable.

I was late to apply for accommodation so it's just an average of the rubbish that was left aha.

Yeah I totally agree, it's a joke! Everyone should be assessed equally. My household income is 55k+ before tax and it's not as if we are rich, my mum and dad have bills to pay, cars, gas and electricity and there is four of us (two brothers and one sister) They should make the threshold 70k+, that's when families are well-off and comfortable.

Even above 70k its not easy. I.e. cars, kids, pets, nursing home fees for grandparents, travelling to see family etcetc.
Its tough. And its ****ing frustrating. Especially if youre someone that wants to try and be independent of your family but doesnt want the full shabang.

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Is there anyone else that doesn't have a loan, and everything comes from daddy??

From my friendship group, I'm the only one.

Me. :O

Wow that sucks. But if you managed on the first year you should get by on the 2nd. Doesn't your university offer any funding help? Bursaries and Scholarships?

True, it's so unreasonable, and they won't assess you as an independent student until you're 25 or over.