| My cousin, whom I am very close to, received an offer this week to go to my uni this autumn to do business. He's 20, but he's only just completing his A-levels - he chose to get a job instead of do them as he grew up in a really unstable family (my aunt and uncle were abusive and he no longer sees them) and he wanted to move out and support himself. He has worked his way up pretty quickly and now has a stable job as a junior manager. He's asked me for my advice as obviously I go to my uni, and also whether I think he would "fit in" being the age that he is. He is thinking of deferring his offer (which my uni is fine with) as he's just been promoted and would like to spend a year saving; he can afford to go to uni this year but he would be on a tight budget. I know he's really mature and used to working life and I'm not sure if he would fit in amongst all the freshers (especially at 21 as a "mature student") but he's extremely sociable and friendly though I'm worried they might find him "weird" for being so old. Obviously I'd be able to help him out but I won't know many first-years. I have known a few mature students and they always found it hard to fit in no matter how much effort they made. What advice should I give him? He says it's his life dream to be an entrepreneur and that's why he wants to study business, and that he wants a proper "uni experience" (all his friends from school went to uni so he didn't miss out on the social experience entirely, but he wants to see what it's like for himself). But would a mature 20/21 year old really fit in at university? | |||
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