 My name is Avery, I'm from Germany and I'm studying at Sowas University of London. My initial plan was to remain in Germany and study politics and language there, but I came to London in a gap year and enjoyed my time here enough to change my plans and stay for university. I'm studying the foundation here at Sowas and will go on to study a course I'm passionate about at a university I never thought I would have got into. Without the clearing process, this would not have been a possibility for me. I had not applied to UK University using the regular route before I applied through clearing. I had almost given up on getting into a good university in the UK as I realised too late that, despite Brexit, I would not have to pay overseas fees. So when I realised clearing was still open, I felt I just had to at least give it a shot and luckily I ended up getting into Sowas. Given my pool of interests, Sowas was a natural choice for me regarding my university pathway with the excellent politics and language departments. After my successful foundation year, I will now go on to study politics and Korean from October. It's always stressful to find a place to live in London, but seeing as I could not afford student accommodation, I might have found it easier than other clearing students that relied on student housing as I chose to live with my friends. I have definitely enjoyed my time at Sowas and especially in my course. I feel I made the right choice applying on such short notice and doing a foundation year is definitely even worth it. It has made me really excited to progress onto my bachelor's course the coming academic year.