Applying to 5 year course as a second degree how will you afford it?

**kylelowe1990** · 30-11-2011, 03:50 AM

no fees in the 5th year? that is some good news! I guess if i could save up 20K i could work through med school and pay the rest off as i go!

**ryujin** · 30-11-2011, 03:52 AM

well not exactly, but nhs pays for 5th year! I could probably save enough to pay for 4th year if i got a part time job, but I want to commit myself to my studies, afterall, i'm paying so much money, I have to do good! (along with a small social life lol)

**kylelowe1990** · 30-11-2011, 03:56 AM

I feel a bit deflated now, as i was hoping that the loan from the bank would help out! Although im not 100% sure i am even excluded from getting a Student Loan, as i was a Nursing student for 2 years but i was on the Diploma and it was paid for by the NHS as aposed to student loan funding!

**ryujin** · 30-11-2011, 04:05 AM

hmmm its hard to say... my friend contacted them, her parents had been paying for her current degree outright, and shes applying for medicine (same as us) but was told that she can't get a tuition loan for medicine... but thats waht she was told on the phones, SLC never get their facts straight

**kylelowe1990** · 30-11-2011, 04:10 AM

Yeah i have heard that these guys seem to make it up as they go along and its best to get 4-5 answers and taking the average before assuming anything! I guess i had best start working 120 hour weeks to save up! although it will be good practice for when we are junior doctors miss the old 40 hour weeks!

**ryujin** · 30-11-2011, 05:05 AM

naaa, if i were you, i'd jsut assume 0 funding, and work your ass work to earn as much as possible! worst thing that can happen is you find out that you can get funding, then you have more money to spend
lol you say 40 hour weeks... i don't work nearly tht hard for my current degree, 8 hours lectures a week and thats it, next term, only 4 hours but I also have my final year lab project soooo
going from this to whatever is gonna be a shock!

**kylelowe1990** · 30-11-2011, 05:16 AM

Ive been doing some calculations and i could get around 36K in 6 years meaning i would enter medicine at 26. When i was a nursing student we would have lectures 9-4 everyday 4 days a week, and then we had placement weeks we would have to do 37.5 hour weeks so im kind of used to it! But most of my mates that were studying other subjects were like you with occasional half days and rarley having to get up until 11! It seems the medical healthcare and scientific courses do more hours then the rest!

**ryujin** · 30-11-2011, 05:19 AM

lol i'm am doing a scientific course... i'm doing genetics!
I jsut carefully chose my modules, choosing a research porject over a liturature as its worth more credits, choosing double unit modules as it means less exams at the end of the year (my uni assessment is normally about 20% coursework/labs and 80% exam at the end of the year)