Student finance help

and you want to get your SFE application done asap.

Can i ask why? Sorry its just i have to fill mine out and everyone says do it quickly, but what is the difference?

student finance are generally just a slow and incompetent country. You don't want to get july/august and still not have your application completed.

But also the "deadline" for getting your student finance "guaranteed" to be paid in time is the end of may. You don't want to be starting uni and not get your student finance on time.

Ah right i see, so providing i get it done before the end of May i should be fine? Im not lazy its just i have so much revision but i should probably make some time -.-

Just open a regular bank account and register it with student finance, then upgrade it to a student account when you get your UCAS confirmation letter.

The bank account you register with student finance doesn't have to be a student account. The student account is just an account with certain perks that the banks offer you to lure you in as a customer.

The one thing you really don't want to do is leave it late.

I didn't have a bank account at this point last year and didn't have any proof of address, so I had to wait until I got my confirmation letter. Then I went to the bank to set up an account and there was an issue with their system, and I couldn't get an account open until late October. That meant no money until November, and since I didn't have a bank account, my parents had no way of giving me money either. So yeah, make sure you get it sorted asap.

Just open a bank account with whatever bank you prefer, once you get your UCAS confirmation letter through take it to your bank and you can then upgrade your current account to a student account to get the perks such as an overdraft. You can always switch banks later if you prefer.

But don't wait for your UCAS letter to come through and to get a student account to open up a bank account, you could be waiting a while and you want to get your SFE application done asap.

Thank you! Also when do you get the UCAS letter? I haven't got mine yet

You won't get your ucas letter til after results day and you have picked your firm choice.