York Applicants 2012!!

Of course, what subject have you received your offer for? It should be a food day, would you like me to tell you about it on here?

Me!
Obviously I can't ask about the course because we're doing very different degrees, but how are you liking the university and the town? Are you enjoying yourself? Can you tell me a bit about the city and the nightlife, etc?
And also, if my interview goes well, where would you recommend I apply for accommodation? Which are the best halls? Thanks so much for offering to answer some questions!

What's Vanbrugh like as far as accomodation goes? Is is sociable etc?

You too:-) I've applied for sociology and sociology with criminology

Hello Can I just ask if you have got an offer from York? We have the same predicted grades and I haven't come across anyone who has AAB predicted and received an offer from them, though you do have two sciences and I do not! I hope that your application is doing well

No, Im still waiting on it, but becouse im part of an access to learning scheme, they should lower the grade requirements for me . Hows your application going?

I got an offer to study English at York and I'm planning on going to the Open Day next week. I was just wondering if there were any current students that could tell me a bit about the different colleges and their accommodation? I would like to have a quick look at one or two colleges since I'm there and I'm not quite sure which to choose.
Basically, I'm a fairly quiet person. I like to socialise but I do also like to be able to have some me-time So a room where I could study without having to go to the library all the time would be great Which are the quieter colleges and the more buzzing ones? Do you tend to socialise within your own college, in the JCR bar? And is there a bar for every college?
Also, I'd prefer to live in a more modern block as I've heard that Langwith and Derwent are pretty old. Is there any truth in that? :P I'm not sure if I can afford en-suite. If I can, is it worth it? Like how many showers are there per floor?
I think I'm going to go catered but if I do choose so, am I obliged to attend every breakfast/dinner meal? Or is it a card system where you pay a certain amount and then you choose when you go, etc.
Sorry for all the questions but I would really appreciate any of your help! Cheers

Alcuin is supposedly very quiet, but it's also pricier than most. Langwith and Derwent are old, along with parts of Vanbrugh (Eric Milner and Wentworth E definitely) - on the website it'll tell you when the accommodation was built. As far as I know, Langwith is moving to Hes East next year though, so the current Langwith will become Derwent (if that makes sense).

Both Halifax and the older parts of Vanbrugh seem to me to be the noisiest, though I know nothing of James.

Most colleges have bars of some sort - Langwith's is pretty popular, Vanbrugh's is pretty rubbish. The others I'd guess are somewhere in between, though I haven't spent much time in them. I don't know if Alcuin or Goodricke have a bar, though. Most people I know don't restrict themselves to their 'own' bar, they just go wherever they feel like (all this said, I don't spend much time at all in the campus bars, so someone else will probably be able to give you better information).

I currently have an ensuite and it's just really nice to have the convenience, and if you can afford it and don't feel like you'd be wasting money then I'd definitely go for it. That said, I've heard that shared bathrooms aren't a problem, and I think they're cleaned daily (or at least very frequently). Showers per floor/people per shower ratio depends on which college you're looking at, the website will help you with that. As for noise, ear plugs are a fantastic investment I live in New Vanbrugh and for the most part I don't think it's too noisey to be able to work - it's often the loudest when I have essay deadlines (though I think the library opening hours are changing to 24/7 next year, so if all else fails you can just stay there )

I know very little about catered accommodation - this page might be of use to you, it states that if you miss a meal you're not entitled to a refund, so I guess you're supposed to turn up to all of them if you want feeding.

Thanks for the insight!
I'm currently debating between Alcuin, Goodricke and James. Apparently Alcuin has "quiet areas", so I'm guessing it's probably one of the least buzzing colleges, then?
It's good to hear that most of the colleges have their own bars though. If you're feeling lazy and don't feeling like walking into York for a night-out, that's a good way to spend an evening Gosh, I'm not painting a very good picture of myself. Socially quiet and lazy. Oh dear.
En-suite does sound reeeeally appealing, but I guess it depends on the price of the college I'm applying to. And if Alcuin is a tad pricier.. Do you know anything of Goodricke college? I see it's been recently renovated and looks lovely.
Cheers for the link, it's answered most of my questions about catered eating.

Don't suppose anyone's got an offer for English Lit and History (QV31)?

I've tried to be level-headed about it, thinking "oh, all these people getting so stressed because they haven't got replies, ha, such silly people". Sent my application on 10th October and I'm beginning to get a bit antsy. York will more than likely be my firm if I get an offer.

Well I'm waiting on straight History, UCAS sent on the 28th of September and still waiting!

Ouch! Fellow early-applier-late-receiver. It's quite frustrating.

Where else did you apply?

Oxford, KCL (both rejections, I'm taking a resit post A2 to go from A*AB to A*AA which is part of the reason for both of those), Exeter (offer late November) and Warwick (offer a few weeks ago).

So I've waits for most of my Unis, and then I see people on TSR complaining that they applied two weeks ago and they haven't heard and should they be worried

Yeah that annoyed me. Posting on January 20th: "I applied on January 7th, and they still haven't got back to me!"
So I suppose yours will be unconditionals then? Which one would you like best to accept?

Don't suppose anyone's got an offer for English Lit and History (QV31)?

I've tried to be level-headed about it, thinking "oh, all these people getting so stressed because they haven't got replies, ha, such silly people". Sent my application on 10th October and I'm beginning to get a bit antsy. York will more than likely be my firm if I get an offer.

I'm going to the applicant day I'm not a sociology applicant but I think its it the same college - Langwith?? I want to do education with some modules in sociology in my second and third year