How to comfort people who've been rejected from unis? :S

It doesn't have to be expensive at all o.O

Fees went up from £3k to £9 per year yesterday, as of next year's applications.

If you choose to go to university, you'll pay £9k for 3 years tuition.

Take a gap year, you'll end up paying £27k.

No, they CAN charge up to £9k now, the vast majority of courses won't cost that much. If they want to go above £6k they have to be able to justify it to the government why.

Let me be perfectly clear, I'm in no way in support of the raising of tuition fees, I think it's a step in entirely the wrong direction. But it's starting to get slightly annoying how the only thing anyone can say is "£9000".

Well... Yes. But two points:
Your argument is
1. Only relevant for this year (not future applicants - which the thread can still relate to)
2. Talking about going to university after your gap year, not the expense of actually taking a gap year (what if you worked during your gap year, which subsequently contributed to higher future earnings after university? Or what if it somehow meant lower amounts of debt? Does this still count as expensive?)

Gap years don't have to be expensive. University can be expensive.

Universities COULD charge up to £3k. Labour thought only a few universities would charge that much, but nearly all do. I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of unis charged £9k, especially since funding will be dropped (per student) by more than that, afair.

This thread is clearly talking about this year - you wouldn't plan comforting in advance, would you?

That's total b*ll*cks. Some courses have 100 applicants for every place, all within the small narrow top range of brilliance. It's as much luck as anything else, because 80% of them were good enough and to spare