I struggle with long sentences, but, this doesn’t work- it doesn’t matter when Italy consider you resident, SAAS require 3 years. Sorry.
It’s a bloody ridiculous situation tbh. What annoys me is that even though there’s “no fees for scottish students”, that doesn’t stop the scottish government from putting the squeeze on funding- which means less places. Now that doesn’t sound too bad, except that when the number of places got reduced, the policy was announced after the year’s admissions were set, so we ended up with a load of unfunded students that we had to pay for ourselves! Just bonkers.
On the other hand, check with the University as they have a load of extra bursaries available- most RUK students won’t pay the full £36000 apparently. They’ve done badly at getting this across though, which we’re finding pretty hilarious… (we’re charging £9000, but you get 4 years for the price of 3 with most degrees)