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Beating your uni offer for money

Hey all-

I have been to a few open days and I’m sure I heard somewhere that at some unis you get given money/charged less for every grade over your offer you get? Not talking about like a bursary, but like a cash amount (eg £50) for beating a grade. Is this a thing or was the person talking ****?
Original post by Bogotá
Hey all-

I have been to a few open days and I’m sure I heard somewhere that at some unis you get given money/charged less for every grade over your offer you get? Not talking about like a bursary, but like a cash amount (eg £50) for beating a grade. Is this a thing or was the person talking ****?


Sounds like rubbish. Not sure why the uni really cares?
Trace the person who told you and ask them to source it.
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Original post by Bogotá
Hey all-

I have been to a few open days and I’m sure I heard somewhere that at some unis you get given money/charged less for every grade over your offer you get? Not talking about like a bursary, but like a cash amount (eg £50) for beating a grade. Is this a thing or was the person talking ****?


Not heard that one before :nope:

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Original post by 999tigger
Sounds like rubbish. Not sure why the uni really cares?
Trace the person who told you and ask them to source it.

Na it was a convo I overheard whilst stealing pens on an open day. Oh well doesn’t matter
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Original post by Doonesbury
Not heard that one before :nope:

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Oh could have been this. It’s like automatically given https://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/finance/scholarships/subject/engexcellence/
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Original post by Bogotá
Oh could have been this. It’s like automatically given https://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/finance/scholarships/subject/engexcellence/


There's lots like that, including Surrey too..
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-funding/scholarships-and-bursaries/surrey-merit-scholarship-2018-entry

But that's not really the same as your original question
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Original post by Doonesbury
There's lots like that, including Surrey too. But that's not really the same as your original question

No I know, like I say I was just listening in so I must have interpreted what they said wrong. Still, free money can’t conplain
The closest thing to this I can think of is UEA, which give certain loans to students who achieve A/A* in their EPQ.
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Original post by FloralHybrid
The closest thing to this I can think of is UEA, which give certain loans to students who achieve A/A* in their EPQ.


Doesn't appear to be a loan, it's free money (bursary) :yy:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/scholarships/bright-spark-scholarship
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Original post by Bogotá
Hey all-

I have been to a few open days and I’m sure I heard somewhere that at some unis you get given money/charged less for every grade over your offer you get? Not talking about like a bursary, but like a cash amount (eg £50) for beating a grade. Is this a thing or was the person talking ****?


You can get scholarships where in some cases you can get £1000 a year for getting about 2 grades over the entry requirements
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Doesn't appear to be a loan, it's free money (bursary) :yy:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/scholarships/bright-spark-scholarship


OOOO DONT EVEN HAVE TO PAY IT BACK

@UEA, you just became 5x more appealing than you already were.
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What about universities that hand out cash if you get a First?
Original post by Bogotá
Hey all-

I have been to a few open days and I’m sure I heard somewhere that at some unis you get given money/charged less for every grade over your offer you get? Not talking about like a bursary, but like a cash amount (eg £50) for beating a grade. Is this a thing or was the person talking ****?

City University definitely do. Well they did when I was looking to apply a few years back.

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