Chapter 169 Borrowing Money

After all, the majors with the highest acceptance rate for German at Oxford are all in the social sciences and humanities. Not only German, but all private school students in the UK who go to Oxford and Cambridge are mostly in the social sciences and humanities, like Leda.

In other words, these social science and humanities majors are the best academic paths planned by upper-class families for their children, because most of them go into politics or inherit family property after graduation.

Therefore, science and engineering majors at Oxford and Cambridge have become a must-win for children from ordinary families, because the return rate on literature and social sciences is too low for them, even at top universities.

But science and engineering are different. They have strong professional barriers and require students to rely on their own abilities to succeed. It can be said to be a path that can break through classes and has a very high rate of return.

This makes the competition in science and engineering at top British universities extremely intense. According to statistics, science and engineering are the majors with the highest application rates among British Asian students, and pharmacy is the most popular one.

So what Zhang Wei has to challenge is the most popular among the popular ones. She not only has to compete with British students, but also with many equally outstanding Asian students. It is indeed stressful to think about it.

However, it was normal in Dewen for someone like Zhang Wei to start worrying about college so early. Just as she had expected, the courses her roommates chose were mostly in the humanities and social sciences, so in the last two years of junior high school, she and her roommates did not have much time to attend classes together.

Except for Alia, she was going to apply for medicine, so her courses overlapped a lot with Zhang Wei's, but she took one less course than Zhang Wei, and she chose eleven courses in total.

Because they often discussed their homework, she and Alia started to interact more frequently.

That day, Alia went to Zhang Wei's room again after dinner. Zhang Wei thought Alia was going to ask her some questions again, but she didn't expect Alia to borrow money from her.

This surprised Zhang Wei because she thought that people who came to study in Dewen might lack anything, but they would never lack money.

Although the amount borrowed was not much, only 10,000 pounds, she knew Alia's family background. Could it be that her father had stepped down?

Facing Zhang Wei's puzzled gaze, Alia spoke:

"I'm sorry, I know this is a bit abrupt, but I want to finish my studies, so I can only borrow some from you temporarily."

"It's okay, I can lend it to you, but did something happen at home?"

When school started, Zhang Wei felt that she seemed to be in a bad state, and thought that she was just like herself, feeling a little stressed out thinking about the school and major she was going to apply to.

As soon as Zhang Wei finished speaking, tears rolled down Alia's eyes and she choked and said:

"Vera, I really envy you all for growing up in a different country than I did."

Then Alia slowly told the reason. It turned out that after she returned home during the summer vacation, her fiancé's family didn't want her to continue going to school and wanted Alia to get married.

Because she was able to study at German because she agreed to her family's engagement request, and her family was not responsible for any of her expenses.

Although she received the King's Scholarship and did not have to pay any tuition fees, she still had some daily expenses, which came from her fiancé's family.

So she has always been very frugal, trying not to spend too much of her fiancé's family's money, and studying hard. Unexpectedly, even so, they couldn't let her finish her studies.

This time she was able to come back because of her prayers. Her brother booked a plane ticket for her to come back secretly, because she was educated in Germany and her brother did not like her uneducated fiancé.

So she decided to pay back the money she had spent over the previous three years to her fiancé's family, plus some of her own savings, and sold some jewelry, leaving her with a net worth of £10,000.

Zhang Wei felt a little sad after hearing this. She still remembered how Alia's eyes lit up when she talked about studying medicine. Why is it so difficult for women in this world everywhere?

"Okay, I'll transfer it to you whenever you need it."

"Thank you. I've already asked Mr. Cruise, and he said he'd help me find some suitable, paying work. I'll pay you back when I save the money."

Zhang Wei waved his hand. "Don't worry. I believe in you. You can pay me back later. Now just focus on your studies and pay me back when you make money. We'll go to medical school together!"

Alia wiped away a tear after hearing this and said, "Yes, I still have to go to medical school. You know I'm not very smart, but I will work hard. Maybe I can pay you back later."

"It's okay, I don't need to spend this money for the time being, don't worry"

If Alia could break free from the constraints of her family and become an excellent obstetrician and gynecologist, Zhang Wei thought that the money would be valuable even if she didn't pay it back.

Zhang Wei felt that Alia was very resilient, whether it was convincing her family to let her come to study or asking her brother to secretly bring her back to the UK.

However, she was still a little worried about her future life, so she asked, "Will your family come to the school to look for you after they find out?"

"I believe they won't. My brother Azim is my parents' pride and they don't want me to have any influence on him,"

"As for the other matters, my father will find a way to handle them. I probably won't be back in the next few years."

Since Alia said it was okay, Zhang Wei stopped worrying about it. After all, she also had her studies to attend to. After a month of classes, Zhang Wei found that she seemed a little overly nervous. The twelve courses were not as hard as she had imagined.

Because there are many assigned courses, but the total number of class hours per week is fixed, each course has a maximum of three classes per week. In this way, the content taught is relatively limited, and the homework is not as much as imagined.

Moreover, Zhang Wei has discovered a characteristic after studying abroad for so many years: every exam never involves knowledge beyond what was taught in class, so this is why her grades can always be maintained above A.

Although there are more subjects this semester, the content that needs to be mastered in each course is less. Zhang Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: I just feel that the people here are not superhuman. In the past, I was exhausted by just six main courses in China. It is hard to imagine what kind of geniuses are those who can take care of twelve subjects.

As expected, no one is supernatural. We just disperse our previous energy to more subjects. Generally speaking, there is not much change compared with the previous three years.

Just when Zhang Wei took a breath, new things came to her.

Professor Cruz met with her alone and said that if she did not increase her participation in clubs, she might not be able to complete the extracurricular activity credits within two years.

The consequences are very serious and you won’t be able to graduate.

Zhang Wei was shocked. It turned out that she only cared about the credits of the course and did not consider extracurricular practice because she thought she might need to spend more time on studying. The only club she participated in was the Treetop Club, which she founded herself.