If you've recently opened your exam results to discover you really should have spent less time hanging around the swings in the park drinking white lightning and more time swotting up for your highers to get into Uni; you're pretty screwed this year if the academic life was your dream!
8 of the country's learned institutions are full and won't take candidates through the last chance saloon, aka,'clearing'.
The doors are slammed shut at:
The University of Aberdeen
Glasgow Caledonian University
Heriot-Watt University
Queen Margaret University
The University of Strathclyde
The University of Glasgow
The University of Edinburgh
The University of St Andrews
It's a hard lesson learned, and in the current economic situation we find our country in, competition is even tougher out there than in the good times.
So, if you've not got the grades to get that dream place at Uni this year, what are the options?
Well, I guess you shouldn't give up all hope of getting a place on some under-subscribed course somewhere... check the
UCAS website regularly for all the latest.
Maybe Uni isn't for you after all... how about college? Things are pretty packed in many of them too - so pick up the phone, check their websites and be prepared to go knock on doors.
Get a job - sometimes, you've just gotta roll up your sleeves and work your way up. Not easy in these financially troubled times, but what's to stop you going from burger flipper to restaurant owner in the space of a few years of hard graft?
Travel the world - work overseas and work your way around the world. Pick up some life experience and meet new friends.
Don't just sit around though... you've got to be in it, to win it!
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