Applying to unis from another university, NOT transfer. URGENT

Original post by emily_000

I am currently a student at another university but next year I want to go to another university and do the same course from year entry 1.

I am referring to the 2020 entry.

Do I need to drop out of my current university to apply to another and start again my course? or am I allowed to apply while I am a student at another university?

You are allowed to apply while you are a student at another university but be wary of using up too much of your student finance entitlement. You should be ok assuming that you are only in Year 1 of your current degree course, although it seems strange that you are this early into Year 1 and already planning to drop out after spending over £9,000 worth of fees for no real benefit

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Original post by harrysbar

You are allowed to apply while you are a student at another university but be wary of using up too much of your student finance entitlement. You should be ok assuming that you are only in Year 1 of your current degree course, although it seems strange that you are this early into Year 1 and already planning to drop out after spending over £9,000 worth of fees for no real benefit

What If I hold an unconditional offer?! Is it possible to hold an unconditional offer while I am already a student at another university?

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Muttley79

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Original post by emily_000

What If I hold an unconditional offer?! Is it possible to hold an unconditional offer while I am already a student at another university?

Why are you going this year if you don't plan to stay?

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Original post by Muttley79

Why are you going this year if you don't plan to stay?

I want to be secure. To have a place while I am applying again. As I am not sure if the universities that I want to they will make me an offer or not.

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Muttley79

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Original post by emily_000

I want to be secure. To have a place while I am applying again. As I am not sure if the universities that I want to they will make me an offer or not.

So potentially you are throwing away a year's tuition fee and living costs in doing this. Why not transfer to Year 2?

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Original post by Muttley79

So potentially you are throwing away a year's tuition fee and living costs in doing this. Why not transfer to Year 2?

I want to repeat year 1

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Muttley79

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Original post by emily_000

I want to repeat year 1

That seems a bit extreme when you haven't even started yet. Have a gap year ...

Why have you made a second thread about this?

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why not?

OP

when did you drop out? when you got your offers? or before that?

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Clearing and Applications Advisor

I am planning to get my offers and after drop out. Do you know If I can do that? Basically get my unconditional offers or rejections, drop out and after accept one of my offers. Can I do that?

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PQ

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by emily_000

I am currently a student at another university but next year I want to go to another university and do the same course from year entry 1.

I am referring to the 2020 entry.

Do I need to drop out of my current university to apply to another and start again my course? or am I allowed to apply while I am a student at another university?

Applying to move from one university to another is a transfer whether you plan to restart or enter into a later year.

The process is exactly the same the only difference is that transferring into year 2 or above requires an extra task for a new university to assess the compatibility of modules

(edited 4 years ago)

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PQ

Original post by emily_000

why not?

Because in your other thread you’re asking where to send your year 1 marks and are talking about starting year 2 of your current degree and in this thread you are saying that you haven’t even started year 1 yet.

The advice for each situation is different. What stage are you at in your current degree?

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Original post by PQ

Because in your other thread you’re asking where to send your year 1 marks and are talking about starting year 2 of your current degree and in this thread you are saying that you haven’t even started year 1 yet.

The advice for each situation is different. What stage are you at in your current degree?

I finished year 1. I want to start AGAIN year 1 at another university. That it's why I am not sure if its a transfer or not. Are they going to notify my current university? ask it questions etc? I don't want them to know as I might get rejected from the uni that I want to apply. I have the entry requirements for the course. So basically I want to 1. apply to the uni that I want to 2. get my offer and then drop out of my current uni or get my rejection and continue on my current uni

Tbh I am not even sure If I'm allowed to do such a thing as is NOT a transfer. I am not transferring, I finished year 1 and I want to repeat year 1 at another university. That is not a transfer

(edited 4 years ago)

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999tigger

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At the top of the thread you talk about yet to start a degree, then you talk about being in year 1 and now you talk about having finished year 1, which is it?

I agree with all the posts above about the alarm bells over wasting student finance.

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