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Studying at ANU (interstate costs)
osgood:
Hi atarnotes/ ANU students,
I wasn't sure how to go about getting answers to these questions so I thought I'd pop them here and hope for the best.
For varied reasons, it's somewhat necessary that I study interstate post year 12 and wanting to study inter-relations, ANU sounds stellar and the phB sounds right up my alley.
Mainly, I was wondering how interstate students afford accommodation.
I'm guessing families are largely willing to assist in the fees but as hinted to earlier, I'm in a bit of a odd situation and regardless, come from a lower working class family- so the twenty grand is a stickler.
I'm hoping for some kind of scholarship but it's a bit vague as to whether the undergrad ones can be used towards accommodation- there's one marked specifically for accommodation anyway. Speaking of which, apparently a scholarship accompanies the pHB- can this be used towards accommodation?
Anyway, I am just really not in the know, so it'd be lovely if someone could throw me things to consider- financial aid, bursaries, general info ect.
Much appreciated.
#1procrastinator:
--- Quote from: osgood on April 04, 2013, 09:50:42 pm ---Mainly, I was wondering how interstate students afford accommodation.
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I'm on Centrelink + using my savings my savings but I might need to get a job eventually.
--- Quote from: osgood on April 04, 2013, 09:50:42 pm ---I'm guessing families are largely willing to assist in the fees but as hinted to earlier, I'm in a bit of a odd situation and regardless, come from a lower working class family- so the twenty grand is a stickler.
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$20,000? :o
--- Quote from: osgood on April 04, 2013, 09:50:42 pm ---Speaking of which, apparently a scholarship accompanies the pHB- can this be used towards accommodation?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure you can use scholarship moeny however you see fit :p
Lasercookie:
--- Quote from: #1procrastinator on April 05, 2013, 01:02:55 am ---I'm on Centrelink + using my savings my savings but I might need to get a job eventually.
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Yeah I'm pretty much in the same situation, getting by pretty well so far. I'm finding that I usually have to resupply on groceries every fortnight or so.
The rent does vary for each hall. B&G and Fenner Hall are the cheapest ones. The catered halls are expensive. http://accom.anu.edu.au/UAS/977.html is a good start, where it'll take you to a link with the prices for each residence, and also a link about accomodation bursaries. Read everything on that site basically :P
Each hall also offers bursaries for rent I'm fairly sure, they should be listed somewhere on the accommodation website. I don't know about the other halls, but Fenner Hall also has a PhB busary for half-price rent.
--- Quote from: #1procrastinator on April 05, 2013, 01:02:55 am ---$20,000? :o
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The new Tuckwell scholarships that they're starting up this year gives 20k a year.
There's more scholarships than that, http://students.anu.edu.au/scholarships/ug/ is a good start for those. There's a variety of scholarships for 99.70+ students too. That page lists all of those. Don't quote me on this, but I'm not too sure if there's a specific PhB scholarship anymore, but I'd imagine a lot of PhB kids would be eligible for one of those merit ones anyway.
There's also organisations/foundations and what not that offer scholarships that you'll want to look into, your careers teacher or someone at your school might know stuff about those.
How you get to spend scholarship money is up to you I'm fairly sure, most of them will detail how you get the money (whether it's bulk payment, or applied directly to your rent etc.)
osgood:
Oh no, the $20 000 was related to guestimated accommodation costs, which I borrowed from:
http://students.anu.edu.au/think/life.php
Is that an inaccurate number?
osgood:
Hmm, I know I'd definitely be eligible for Youth Allowance/ Centrelink financial aid- I am really not in the know here- but I have no idea how much help that'd be. Would you be able to throw some numbers ect?
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