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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Graduate School

This morning I finished submitting my applications for graduate school in the United Kingdom. I still have a lot of work to do, applying for funding. I've spent hours and hours already on this, and I think I got to the point where I just submitted my applications, regardless of many corrections which could and probably should have been made to personal statements and the like.
Graduate tuition as an overseas student is expensive. Well, it seems that way since they lump it into a yearly sum rather than by term. If you really think about it, though, it's not that bad. (By the way, this post will be useless to anyone but me, I think lol). Tuition in the UK for me will be around $20,000-$30,000. That sounds really expensive, especially after you add in living expenses and such. If you divide that into semesters, that's about $7,000 a semester. That's still a lot more than BYU grad tuition ($2800/sem), but then again, BYU grad programs are 2 years long rather than one. So, at BYU I'd be paying about $16,800 for grad tuition altogether. It doesn't come out to be that different from studying in the UK, and in the UK I get done faster and at a higher-ranked school. I can work 20 hours per week as a student in the UK. I'm hoping this is feasible as a grad student should I be admitted because that would be very helpful financially. If I can get some funding at least, it will be very helpful as well. That's that much more in loans I don't have to take out. I should probably shut up since I could very well not be accepted to any of the places I applied. The most likely to accept me is Newcastle, since they are the lowest ranked of those I applied to.They are 24th in the UK, but they are 7th or 8th for medical programs there.
My parents are supportive of me, which is always nice (they always are supportive.) I think it will be very hard in certain ways if I get to go over to the UK for grad school. I was thinking about that the other night--how I may well be very lonely, the program may be super hard, or I might not even like the program. And then I thought of the Church, and how I have an automatic network no matter where I go in the world. Shabam.

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