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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Ulciscor on August 18, 2005, 06:30:23 AM
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I just got my A-level results today,
Computing - B, Maths - A, Electronics - A, Physics - B
I needed AAA to get into Oxford, so I thought aww I've not got in...
But they accepted me anyway! I am soooo pleased
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Oxford? Go dude!
Nice one. B)
I didn't even attempt Oxford. I took Chemistry in Plymouth.
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My University choice was determined by money.
I'm paying what my Dad did for college in the 1970s.
:)
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Nice going...
No surprise you pay for you education Num in the states, but what about in England, do you pay for you education there to?
In Denmark we get paid to get educated. :P
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Where's the packing up and moving to Denmark emoticon?
In the states, unless you're very poor, you'll end up paying for the vast majority of your schooling. Which can go as high as 10K a semester. Mine is 3K a semester. Student loans help, but you have to start paying it off as soon as you can. Here's hoping for a good job outa college (fingers crossed emoticon).
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:whisper: :lecture: :pray:
Do I understand this right?
If you are very very poor, you can go all the way from primeschool (or whatever it is called, when you start in school) and all the way to university without paying, or that is only theory and not practical possible?
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I start on KU, Copenhagen University in about 2 weeks, I get what is called SU, Statens Uddanelses Støtte or "The Goverments Educational Support", cant really get translated. But I will get around 4700 DKr, what is about 700 - 800 $ a month. I only pay for my books (which can be really expensive, especially books from the States, because of some weird auther royalities thing...?)
I not bragging or the like, we pay 50 % in income tax or more (depending on you income, the higher the more tax, maximum is around 75%).
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and SU is not a loan, you dont have to pay anything back to the goverment.
You can also get additional SU-LOANS, which you begin to pay when you are finished with you education.
AND AND AND
Denmark is NOT a communist or socialist country if you think. (I have an idea that most people outside the European Union dont know of Denmark, or think it is the capital of Sweden or something like that)
Actually we have been a greater power, but that is another story.
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When I took my degree (England early 90s) I managed to get a full tuition grant from the government so I didn't have to pay for anything other than books, housing and stuff.
I am now in the States and my daughter is looking for universitys to start in 2007. The one she wants to attend is going to cost me $17,000 per semester unless she can get significant scholarships. Luckily she is a straght A student and stands a good chance of getting them. If she doesn't then she is going to have to make do with Missouri University where I work. I can get her in here for about $1000 per semester.
Talk about incentive eh?
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Over here we get student loans which we have to pay back and grants which are for free. Though of course to complicate issues some new scheme is being introduced next year, about which I have no idea because luckily it won't affect me. Although from what I have heard it isn't going to be very popular when it is introduced.
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I think tehy stopped the grants in England some time around 2000.
Now it is just like the US. You pay for everything.
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Well I've got a grant from my local council that I don't have to pay back, but maybe it's a Wales thing.
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A grant to go to Oxford?
From your local council?
lucky git!
Rip their arms off to get that cheque.
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I had a friend whos parents were seperated/divorced. To avoid child support, my Friend's dad did all his business through his wife, who filed her taxes seperately.
Which ment that my friend managed to get oodles of grant and loan money, which he actually didn't need. He turned around and invested all that grant and load money.
2 years later, he has $75000 in cash. He's not even 20 yet. I don't know how much of that is loan money, but loan interest doesn't accumulate until after you leave school. So he's getting alot of interest from his investments.
THat's how the US system works. Poor upper middle class stiffs like me have to pay our own way, with maybe 2K in loans that you can get per semester.
Luckily tuition at my school is $2400 per semester for full time students. Mere pitances :P
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I dont know about you guys. But I am stuck in a Brooklyn Collage Seek program talking "Antropology" and "Phylosaphy" when I am supposed to be taking CIS 1.5 for my Computer Science major. I want to keep Phylospahy but "the study of colture" I mean give me a breack here; I will go on monday find out what happend to my computer science class and try to drup the "antropology" stuped seek pre-core program :wacko:
I know I know , I needed to be a noob at vb to get selected for Oxford or Harvert or somthing.
O well I gess my english messed it up.
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O well I gess my english messed it up.
There wouldn't happen to be any spelling and grammer courses offered.
Why am I asking? Uh, no reason :rolleyes:
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Thing is, in Oxford the course involves very little time actually using computers. It's mostly pure and statistical maths, and writing programs in pseudocode.
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That's how alot of Computer Science courses are. It actually isn't terribly difficult to master programming languages. It's the algorithms and stuff that's the heavy heavy.
Only problem is there were alot of people in my comp sci courses who couldn't actually... um, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, program. Go figure.
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I personally just chose to enlist and receive some 50,000/303,587.50 DKK after I get out, plus fully paid tuition while I'm in. Not too bad of a trade-off, I'll probably be getting out in a couple of years and then going back to college.
Nice to be reminded of the meaning of WWW sometimes :)
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Still get grants in Scotland.
pwn.