Hi There Creativeminds,
As a 2nd year who has been in halls in Notts University. It actually struck me how unprejudiced university actually was. There wasn't really any cliques at all which I thought would form pretty quickly and no one really judged you by your class/colour/sex etc at all. It was a friendly place and everyone had the same rights as the next person. One of the most popular people in my halls was in fact a guy with Autism who was really opinionated and threw quite dramatic tantrums throwing chairs across the room.
If you are worried that life at notts would be walking around with people who are the same class as you and if you attempt to join the "poshies group" when you are from the slums of deepest darkest Glasgow or something (not that I'm say Glasgow is full of slums
) you'll get rebuffed with a "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Don't because that view is simply untrue.
If you take my house which I'm living in Lenton with for example. We have one privately taught girl from Birmingham, a girl and a guy from all boys/girls grammars up north, two guys who are really colloquial and who's parents work as butchers, PAs etc, and a girl who's kind of in the middle from Wolverhampton whose parents are pharmacists but went to a good state school.
I think its a perfect illustration of how Uni of Nottingham is. A good mix of people from across the country and backgrounds. People don't care where you are from whether you have a silver spoon in your mouth or whether you've got money. Money is a topic with is simply not talked about its not important.
Being at this uni has basically proved that no matter what background you have you are just as good as anyone you see at Notts cause you've gotten into a Uni within the top 20 in the UK and in the top 75 in the world. In fact it is people who did pick and choose who they were friends within were the ones who were hated.
Rutland was hated cause it was full of people obsessed with sport and nothing else. A group in my hall was hated because they didn't mix and yet assumed everyone loved them because they were "hot" and went out and got drunk all the time and slept with anything with a pulse. So people won't hate you because of class, they'll hate you because you think that's important one way or another. If you are open minded, you'll be greatly surprised in life at Notts. If, of course, you give it a chance.
All the best in your decision making.