I'm just providing my opinion and point of view. You must be used to shoving things down your throat but no, I am not forcing you to listen to me, or shove anything ur throat.
Pretentious people won't feel they are pretentious. Arts and social sciences are the most useless degrees when it comes to careers. Die die also want to take an arts degree in a prestigious uni, even if it takes wasting 2 additional years trying to get it, esp when ur very financially disadvantaged, sounds very pretentious to me.
The choices u made are stupid. I'm providing you suggestions, and u say I'm shoving things down your throat. Even if u offered to, no thanks
I can only infer that the reason for u to die also wan to enter local uni, when there are priv degrees for similar courses, and when both degrees are about similar value, is just cause u want to enter a local uni for namesake.