Top Tips for Your Student Finance Application

<v Speaker 1>Hi, I'm Louise and I work in a student finance
<v Speaker 1>team at university. My top tips for your student finance
<v Speaker 1>application would be this. Tip number one would be take
<v Speaker 1>responsibility for your application. It's your funding and your application,
<v Speaker 1>so make sure you know what's happening with it and
<v Speaker 1>that you're in control. Tip number two would be prepared
<v Speaker 1>your parents. So if you're going to be applying for
<v Speaker 1>funding based on your household income, your parents will need
<v Speaker 1>to supply some information. If you can let them know
<v Speaker 1>what they're going to need before they're confronted with their email,
<v Speaker 1>it really helps. Tip number three would be respond to
<v Speaker 1>anything you get from student financing landed as soon as
<v Speaker 1>you can, so if they do write you or email
<v Speaker 1>you asking for further evidence, make sure you send that
<v Speaker 1>as soon as you can, and when you send it
<v Speaker 1>to them, make sure you write on it your name
<v Speaker 1>and your customer reference number so they know who it's
<v Speaker 1>come from and why you've sent it in. Tip number
<v Speaker 1>four would be get all your documents together before you
<v Speaker 1>start your application if you can. In most cases, all
<v Speaker 1>your need is a valid UK passport and your National
<v Speaker 1>Insurance number, so if you've got those to hand when
<v Speaker 1>you're doing your online application. It makes things a lot
<v Speaker 1>easier and tip number five would be keep your university involved.
<v Speaker 1>We don't have access to your application to Student Finance,
<v Speaker 1>but we can give you loads of advice and tips
<v Speaker 1>on the application process and if your application is late,
<v Speaker 1>we can support you in lots of ways to make
<v Speaker 1>sure you can still start your course and you don't
<v Speaker 1>have to miss out on anything at the start of term.
<v Speaker 1>You can find lots more information on student finance at
<v Speaker 1>Student Finance England's website, which is www dot gov dot
<v Speaker 1>UK forward slash student Finance. They also have a whole
<v Speaker 1>student finance section on the Student Room, which is really
<v Speaker 1>useful with loads of help and advice from your fellow students. Alternatively,
<v Speaker 1>you can call your university, so call the universities that
<v Speaker 1>you're interested in. They will have student money advisors who
<v Speaker 1>can talk you through every aspect of the funding available.
<v Speaker 1>Going to university isn't just about doing a course more
<v Speaker 1>than just doing your UNI words, because it really helps
<v Speaker 1>you get to know new people. When you're picking a DUCCS,
<v Speaker 1>pick something that you love, something that you're good at,
<v Speaker 1>and something that you think is going to be useful
<v Speaker 1>no matter what course you do. It's not so much
<v Speaker 1>about what specific subjects you learn with then that course.
<v Speaker 1>It's about the skills that you develop during that cour