St Andrews University Freshers Megathread 2016

When did you all hear back about accommodation?

Unconditional offers got their accomodation offers around the end of July - accommodation offers for students who were conditional should start trickling in soon I imagine.

I'm going to be studying English and Modern History, and living in DRA in the Scott building - anyone else taking the same course or living in the same building feel free to message me

Got a place for Computer Science. It's only 2 weeks until the 3rd, not very far away now.



I'll be in DRA too, but I don't know which building. Did you get an email recently giving more details?

Has anyone who has met a conditional offer been told about accommodation yet?

I got my a level results on thursday and still haven't heard anything. some other applicants I've spoken to are still waiting on theirs too, apparently we'll hear back before the 26th?

I reckon incoming postgrads might not count as freshers but I'm excited to start @ St Andrews in any case! I'll be doing MSc Human-Computer Interaction, moving in to David Russell Apartments on September 3rd.

Any one know if there are any Facebook groups for incoming students? In general, or more specific ones i.e. for postgrads, departments, halls, ect?

I'm on the Computer Science course too - surprising number of us here considering the number of people on the course is relatively small! St A was my insurance choice so I didn't expect for my summer hols to be ending so soon - I think most other unis start later in September right? Now I'm just waiting on an accommodation offer and slowly preparing for uni life. I'm not looking forward to the long drive up.

Most other unis go the third week of September, I think. Where is it you're driving from? I think it's going to take me 6.5 hours (not including (the likely many) coffee stops).

From Cornwall so I think the drive is gonna be 8+ hours :'( I wanted to take a flight up there but my parents want to come along and take me up there by car - luckily they're fast drivers and, to my surprise, the drive time isn't much worse than the flight time . And it does mean I can bring more stuff with me.

Oh, that's a long time. I feel sorry for the driver tbh, I wouldn't have been so keen to offer I don't think! I guess you'll just need to take plenty of stops to stretch your legs and recharge a bit. Best of luck!