# Maisie's story

**Source**: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/foundation-year-stories/maisie-savage
**Parent**: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/foundation-years/undergraduate

Maisie says her Foundation Year helped prepare her for university life. Maisie spoke to us about her experience and how her Foundation Year helped secure a place on a Mathematics BSc at Sussex.

## Maisie's Foundation Year

"I unfortunately needed to resit a year of my A-levels, making my last year at school really difficult. All my friends had gone off to Uni and myself and a handful of others were almost 'left behind'. When my second set of A- level results didn't quite make the cut, I was automatically offered a place on the Mathematics Foundation Year at Sussex.

"Not making the grades again really knocked my confidence as I was then going to be another year behind my school friends. This made me question whether university was really for me.

"When Sussex offered me a place on their foundation course I also received an offer for the Mathematics BSc at the University of Essex. I chose the four-year course at Sussex, as I would rather spend an extra year in Brighton, than be somewhere I didn't love for three years.

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> I would recommend the foundation course to anyone who has perhaps taken a few years out of education, hasn't made their grades or simply wants to gain an extra year’s experience.” Maisie Savage\
> Mathematics BSc

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"My Foundation Year allowed me to experience university life, get to know my lecturers, the structure of the course and how things are done, so that when I began the first year of my **Mathematics** BSc I was already one step ahead.

"I would recommend the foundation course to anyone who has perhaps taken a few years out of education, hasn't made their grades or simply wants to gain an extra year’s experience before starting their chosen course.

[See our Foundation Year courses](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/foundation-years/undergraduate)

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