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humph:
I was on an NUS (which at the time was $10,000 a year), plus from second year onwards I was a tutor, which added a couple hundred dollars a week. For the first two years I did get a little bit of financial help from the parents (I was staying at Bruce Hall, which is pretty pricey), but after that I was fine financially.

If you have a good scholarship (the NUS is $12,500 these days) you can survive without a job at somewhere like B&G or Fenner (and possibly Unilodge), but one of the catered colleges will be too pricey. Without such a scholarship, you'll need to work a job that gives you quite a few hours a week and hope for a fair amount of youth allowance.

osgood:
This is all very helpful. Thank you.
(Thank you for the email #1procrastinator, I can't reply to them for some reason..Just to clarify, do you and laserbluedd receive help from your parents?)
Just to clarify, to some extent, my parents would be willing to help out (I think), but the more I can fund myself, the better and the worst case scenario would be me having to 'get up and go' but I don't really want to consider that.
Anyway, I think the NUS is out of my reach, but between an equity scholarship of $5000 or a merit scholarship of $6500, some kind of youth allowance/ rental assist (guestimating about $200) and a part time job of average wage and hours, how would I fare in an uncatered college? If I were to still be flailing, approximately how much would my parents have to chip in?
So sorry for all these questions- your replies are all very helpful!

JellyDonut:

--- Quote from: osgood on April 05, 2013, 08:06:04 am ---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?

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Kinda. If you live on campus, chances are, you won't even be using public transport at all. Similarly, you get like heaps of printing credit at uni so 5 bucks a week on stationary is also untrue. Rest is kinda right

They also inflated the off-campus costs. I'm paying like $160 a week for rent lol.

Lasercookie:

--- Quote from: osgood on April 07, 2013, 07:58:12 am ---(Thank you for the email #1procrastinator, I can't reply to them for some reason..Just to clarify, do you and laserbluedd receive help from your parents?)

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Nah I don't.

The stuff on that ANU link lists the kind of stuff you might end up spending money on, for each of those items you might be able to guess how much you might end up spending. My spending varies week to week, but overall I'm spending a lot less than what that website suggests.


--- Quote from: osgood on April 05, 2013, 08:08:58 am ---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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It's probably worth going into Centrelink yourself one day and just talking to them. It varies a lot depending on your parents income etc.

Jenny_2108:
btw just saying, if you apply to B&G, they also have scholarship for b&g residents based on your academic result and contribution to this accommodation, joining in activities etc but you cant apply for it until you come here and stay, fill out the form.

And you can find a part-time job to pay renting as well :)

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