Consider other institutions too if the preferred one simply will not accept you, but not before you have done your homework on the courses offered and what the establishment has to offer you in terms of student life and other facilities.
In the 1990s they were redeveloped and given a new lease of life, now housing leisure facilities including a golf club, a health club and bowling alley.
Mr Brent's plans include a residential and retail development, sport and leisure facilities to complement the Plymouth Life Centre and a proposed new grandstand at Plymouth Argyle's Home Park.
The initiative, CashBack for Communities, is a scheme which takes money recovered through proceeds of crime legislation and invests it in activities and facilities for young people at risk of turning to a life of crime.
Opponents of the method, however, are saying that the conversion process uses great amounts of fossil fuels and that it harms marine life through its vast duct system whereby it pipes water into the desalination facilities.
"We know from questions asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey that displays of flags detrimentally affect people's use of facilities and shops in certain areas, " he said.