UCL IS MESSING WITH ME, SO ANNOYED!!! (warning for future applicants)

Lol this is literally what I’m going through right now , but I’ve already firmed UCL and only found out afterward they’ve put me as an international student so I contacted them multiple times via email and phone and they keep telling me they’ll reassess my fee status, but I haven’t heard anything from them and it has nearly been a month. However, it hasn’t stopped me from doing my accommodation and student finance. In student finance, I put myself as home student because I know I have the rights as I have lived in uk for many years and have permanent residency.. the only annoying thing is I can’t apply for scholarship or bursary from UCL as I’m still stated as international student -.-

Omg so glad I've found someone who is going through the same thing as me! I feel so much better now.

Do you think I should firm UCL anyways without waiting for their response? Because I really want to get student finance and accommodation sorted out. What if I firm them now and they're like "ok we're going to charge you international fees because you agreed to it"?

Literally so disappointed in them

Same I’m glad someone else can relate to my problem too as all my friends have British citizenship so don’t face these types of situations.

Yes you definitely should firm it, especially since you mention how much you like the uni. On the UCL website, they state they give home fee status to those with residency status so meaning both of us should have it. I’m pretty sure if they charge us international fee, we can appeal against it as we have evidence to say otherwise. I have received uk fee status from other unis so I don’t see why I can’t receive it from ucl. And you should probably firm it soon as student finance takes a while and so does the accommodation, better to get over and done with. Also, you can apply to student finance without having firmed a uni as you can change afterwards if you decide to choose another uni.

And Yh the undergraduate admission team are horrendously bad, they take so long to respond and the responses tend to be very ambiguous.

Ahh thanks for the reassurance! I might wait for easter to end before firming it. My mum is saying to me that I need to hassle them more by calling them everyday and actually going to the uni to speak to the head of admissions! But I don't know if they'll actually do anything and I might just end up annoying them...

Guys I'm in the same situation!! I've sent the questionnaire in January and still haven't heard ;(

yeah I already replied to the offer and put it as firm choice. I asked a UCL counselor and she said that it won't affect my offer. And I was also pretty confident that I would get applied for the UK fee cuz I'm a UK national that lived abroad. Plus I did the same for kings college and they accepted me for the UK fee when I filled out their questionnaire.

Guys I'm in the same situation!! I've sent the questionnaire in January and still haven't heard ;(

Finally heard back today, fee status is now home. Has any of you guys got a reply?

So it's all good then?

This is somewhat unrelated, but earlier this year I went to an open day at UCL because I was considering applying for a PGCE there. There were posters on the walls there for a demonstration to try and get the university to fund more mental health programmes. This told me three things:
1) The university has a problem with the mental health of its students. (This is somewhat to be expected, to be fair - universities aren’t good for mental health, big cities aren’t good for mental health, and UCL has a high-workload reputation.)
2) The university is not doing enough to address those problems.
3) Merely asking the university to do more to support its students’ mental health has not worked - the students have had to turn to demonstrating.

Add to that the fact that nobody there seemed to be particularly happy, and I decided to do a PGCE somewhere else. Maybe I’m judging the university too soon, but I would not recommend the place.

I am confused with UCL as well, I have an A*A*A*A + A* in EPQ prediction and they rejected me for Computer Science G400. I even have the preferred subjects Maths, Computer Science. I think the only reason is that I moved from Spain just before starting Year 12 and I don't have English GCSE, however I didn't know this when I applied but now I have done IELTS and got a 7.5 which is also above their requirement

This is somewhat unrelated, but earlier this year I went to an open day at UCL because I was considering applying for a PGCE there. There were posters on the walls there for a demonstration to try and get the university to fund more mental health programmes. This told me three things:
1) The university has a problem with the mental health of its students. (This is somewhat to be expected, to be fair - universities aren’t good for mental health, big cities aren’t good for mental health, and UCL has a high-workload reputation.)
2) The university is not doing enough to address those problems.
3) Merely asking the university to do more to support its students’ mental health has not worked - the students have had to turn to demonstrating.

Add to that the fact that nobody there seemed to be particularly happy, and I decided to do a PGCE somewhere else. Maybe I’m judging the university too soon, but I would not recommend the place.