Physics Applicants 2012

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For my insurance I now need to decide between Hertfordshire and Nottingham Trent, Hertfordshire have given a slightly easier offer but its negligible really. Any thoughts?

update, offers from Durham and Warwick

I've applied to both and I think I'm going to put Herts as my insurance, the course looks better and the staff have seemed more enthusiastic and helpful when I've spoken to them.
It depends on how you value nightlife etc aswell, as Herts isn't going to be nearly as good as NTU because of location etc.

Anyone had An interview at Nottingham? What's it like?

So you don't get asked any physics/maths questions?
oh , I like those sorts of questions

I got a straight offer, with an invite to a visit day. The campus is nice, green, large. Halls aren't bad! The informal chat I had was quite good, just got asked about stuff I'd put on personal statement.

just out of curiousity, whats the department like at nottingham in terms of facilities, staff, lecture halls, general building, etc compared to other unis you've visited?

Facilities: The undergrad labs are decent, the first experiment you do, in the first couple of weeks, is using the miniature STM they have to take an image of carbon sheets. The other labs are pretty good too. They have a 7T NMR machine for
research purposes, but it's probably not useable by undergrads. They have two telescopes on the roof that you can go use whenever, once you've had the training.

Staff: All really friendly, and very honest. Managed to sell the university really well, whilst still not getting overly preach-y etc

Lecture Halls: Pretty standard really, we went into the main big one for undergrads, but there are other smaller ones for the smaller modules in later years.

General building: There are two main buildings, one is the Physics Department, and the other, smaller one, is more office rooms for researchers and the astronomy department.

I've only seen Cambridge and Edinburgh, will be visiting Lancaster this week.

Interview for Manchester

Anyone got some tips?
Tend to get way too nervous about interviews than I need too.. :P

Facilities: The undergrad labs are decent, the first experiment you do, in the first couple of weeks, is using the miniature STM they have to take an image of carbon sheets. The other labs are pretty good too. They have a 7T NMR machine for
research purposes, but it's probably not useable by undergrads. They have two telescopes on the roof that you can go use whenever, once you've had the training.

Staff: All really friendly, and very honest. Managed to sell the university really well, whilst still not getting overly preach-y etc

Lecture Halls: Pretty standard really, we went into the main big one for undergrads, but there are other smaller ones for the smaller modules in later years.

General building: There are two main buildings, one is the Physics Department, and the other, smaller one, is more office rooms for researchers and the astronomy department.

I've only seen Cambridge and Edinburgh, will be visiting Lancaster this week.

oh ok then, not too bad I see. It probably doesn't compare as well to cambridge, but how does it fare with edinburgh?

Hey I'm going to Lancaster in 2 weeks, let me know what you think!

Which one are you firming & insurance ? I am still waiting for Imperial & offers from ULC Warwick Manchester & Bristol ?

Still cannot decide, can anyone advise ?? Social life, location etc not an important issues, I value more on its research facilities, reputation, employability etc....
Can anyone care to advise ?

I'd go for UCL firm personally, practically the same prestige as imperial, with a much better social life, and exactly the same, if not better employment prospects than imperial.

Durham, Imperial (no replies yet, very worrying) and Bristol (offer AAB). I like Bristol, but in the same way as you go to Battersea dogs home to see a cute laborador puppy, getting all excited about it, only for your ma to fall in love with a half-blind, smelly old pug which you have to take home, in the seat next to you, just lying down farting away... you know the poor sod can't help it and it may have once been cute, but you would still throw it out the car window and run back for the laborador if the chance arose!

lolwut? Imperial has a massive reputation for science and engineering. Whilst UCL has a good Physics department, it isn't as highly ranked for Physics as other universities in the UK.