[Melody Pond]

Originally Posted by her_beautiful_mistake

2) Money. You will not get funding or loans for your second degree, only your first. So unless your parents or you are really very well off, you will struggle to pay for a graduate entry degree. There are schemes to help you but very few people get any kind of government help. From your third year or so you get grants from the government, but these are unlikely to cover the whole cost.

My brother has the NHS paying his fees and gets his student loan and NHS bursary.
Out of the 4 years of his postgraduate degree he gets the NHS funding for the last 3 years (even if you have to resit a year). The first year he had to pay for his own fees. He has got his student loan for the whole 4 years, it is lower than his first student loan because it is just for maintenance, food and rent basically.

He has actually been given more money on his graduate entry degree. In his first degree he only got his student loan with no help from the NHS.

Try not to worry about money too much, you will always get financial help from the uni and the NHS when doing medicine.

Also I definitely agree with looking at GCSE results needed. My friend applied this year and he has been rejected for 3 of his choices already because he didn't have a B in English. He didn't realise he needed it until it is was too late to resit it. One of his teachers is writing to all of the Uni's because English is his 3rd language and he got a high C.