Sometimes, you’re too young at 16 to make definitive choices about your future, says student Sophie Thompson, who had applied to a “cosy and comfortable” campus-based university close to home, only to regret it after she’d done her A-levels. “I chose the only university I looked at.”
After receiving top grades at the age of 18, and having grown in confidence, she fancied student life farther away from home in the north-west, and voluntarily entered clearing.
