UK unis help!

[fire-ablazed]

Hey! Can I ask for some help? My friend wants to do medicine in Cambridge, but we are not sure which college is a better one, or more suitable, for medicine course. HELP! thanks a lot! =)

And I want to ask, is it easy to get study loan once you are accepted by any of the UK unis? If not I will have to reject the offers IF I get any. =(

[bush]

Originally Posted by fire-ablazed

Hey! Can I ask for some help? My friend wants to do medicine in Cambridge, but we are not sure which college is a better one, or more suitable, for medicine course. HELP! thanks a lot! =)

And I want to ask, is it easy to get study loan once you are accepted by any of the UK unis? If not I will have to reject the offers IF I get any. =(

Check out some previous threads on medince in the UK/Cambridge.

Don't worry, unless you are doing medical sciences or applying to either Cambridge or Oxford, you will definitely get offers from British universities.

If you are planning to take up a loan, then it is best to not go to the UK to study. A conservative estimate of 12k pounds a year for tuition fee will make it 48k pounds or 36k pounds for the entire duration. That is RM340k. Let us not forget that this does not include other expenses. WIth that money, one can buy a 3 series.

Trivial comparisons aside, you'll won't be able to get a house loan or a car loan and the sad thing is, you proabbly need at least 20 years or so to pay off your debt. In short you'll forever be in financial bondage.

[caramel_nut]

Originally Posted by fire-ablazed

Hey! Can I ask for some help? My friend wants to do medicine in Cambridge, but we are not sure which college is a better one, or more suitable, for medicine course. HELP! thanks a lot! =)

And I want to ask, is it easy to get study loan once you are accepted by any of the UK unis? If not I will have to reject the offers IF I get any. =(

It doesn't really matter which college you're in. All the courses and academics in Cambridge are supervised by a central board. Thus, regardless of your college, everyone goes for the same lectures together, learn the same thing, sit for the same exam, etc. The only thing that differs is the tutorial (I forgot what they call it in Cambridge) where you'll have masters students from your colleges giving you small-group tutorials.

[bush]

Originally Posted by caramel_nut

It doesn't really matter which college you're in. All the courses and academics in Cambridge are supervised by a central board. Thus, regardless of your college, everyone goes for the same lectures together, learn the same thing, sit for the same exam, etc. The only thing that differs is the tutorial (I forgot what they call it in Cambridge) where you'll have masters students from your colleges giving you small-group tutorials.

I don't think postgrad students give tutorials. In the UK, it's usually the professors.

[JetLee0510]

Originally Posted by fire-ablazed

Hey! Can I ask for some help? My friend wants to do medicine in Cambridge, but we are not sure which college is a better one, or more suitable, for medicine course. HELP! thanks a lot! =)

And I want to ask, is it easy to get study loan once you are accepted by any of the UK unis? If not I will have to reject the offers IF I get any. =(

A loan? yea it will be easier if u already got accepted. . but yeat it isnt something for sure.. but to get a study loan is much easier in Malaysian than anywhere(somewhere) else..

[caramel_nut]

Originally Posted by bush

I don't think postgrad students give tutorials. In the UK, it's usually the professors.

Hmmm.... can't remember where I heard it, but someone told me supervisions in Cambridge colleges are conducted by masters/phd students. Will need to verify it though with a friend. Anyway, check this out regarding Cambridge's teaching forms.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/unde.../teaching.html

[caramel_nut]

Originally Posted by JetLee0510

A loan? yea it will be easier if u already got accepted. . but yeat it isnt something for sure.. but to get a study loan is much easier in Malaysian than anywhere(somewhere) else..

I believe it'd be better if you research first before passing some misleading remarks, not just here but also in other threads.

Anyway, to reply to fire-ablazed, I don't suppose an offer makes it a lot easier or harder to get a loan. The most important thing is still how you convince them you can pay back the loan, which is where your collateral comes in.

I echo bush's views on the debt and financial bondage that you'll forever be in if you ever take up a student loan for study in UK. I contemplated taking a loan before when I first got my conditional offer from Cambridge since I couldn't get any financial support from any government organization, but seriously if you do some careful calculations, it's never worth it unless if you stay back in UK after you graduate and earn UK pounds to pay back your loan (I heard getting a working visa is very hard now...). Paying your loan with Malaysian Dollars is just... hopeless...

[fire-ablazed]

Reply to everyone:

Well thanks a lot! So I guess studying in UK becomes a no for me, because it's pretty hard to get financial support. =( And no scholarships or whatsoever. I'll read up more on the stuff on UK then, see if there's any hope. Is it possible to apply for any more scholarships if I'm doing A Levels now?

[bush]

Originally Posted by fire-ablazed

Reply to everyone:

Well thanks a lot! So I guess studying in UK becomes a no for me, because it's pretty hard to get financial support. =( And no scholarships or whatsoever. I'll read up more on the stuff on UK then, see if there's any hope. Is it possible to apply for any more scholarships if I'm doing A Levels now?

Your best bet would be corporate scholarships.

UK shouldn't be your only choice. The US has lots of opportunities if you take the effort to search for them.

[fire-ablazed]

Isn't US expensive too? And US needs SATs..I am not planning to take them. O.o There isn't time to revise for SAT with the exams coming up. Or rather, i'm too lazy. haha. It's all the money factor.