Durham University 2015 applicants

Thanks! I applied to King's College London, Birmingham, Bristol, Royal Holloway, and Durham of course. Durham was/is my first choice so when I got my offer I just withdrew from everywhere I hadn't heard back from yet and firmed Durham. Also I'm American so I didn't really have predicted grades, haha.

I applied to Kings and Bristol too! Heard back and got offers from both of them. Bristol and Durham are pretty equal for me so I will just see what happens when I hear. If I don't get in (which is pretty likely ngl) I would be so happy to go to Bristol! Amazing! I bet you applied for Castle because it's so old and British haha What State?

So today I got an offer to study Law at Durham, offer A*AA
So, so happy because it was getting to the point that I was fairly confident it would be a rejection, considering my fairly average LNAT score and not overly outstanding AS level results. YAY!!!

Anyone else still waiting for English Lit?

Got an offer from Durham for Law this evening, so unbelievably happy!!!

Yes! I had an offer from them this time last year. Definitely a bad sign. 😭

Yes! I had an offer from them this time last year. Definitely a bad sign. 😭

Why did you not accept the offer last year?

I was hoping that no news was still good news at this point! I'm so anxious, Durham is my first choice and I would love an offer!

I did. AAAA wasn't enough though, and I didn't want to settle for my insurance...

Good luck this time.🍀

I'm hoping so too. One of my friends received an offer for Philosophy while at her Oxford interview, and my friend also went for interview there and received her offer for Philosphy last week!

So would I!!

I know the feeling - my friend received her Law offer in December and I've been waiting for almost 4 months to hear something back! I haven't heard anything from Edinburgh or St Andrews either so I'm wondering what's up :/

Its called the middle class squeeze!!! Paid for an education but not born to a Lord. Worked hard, inherited or borrowed enough to send you lovely children to a nice school. To find out a state grammar school would have given you a distinct advantage!!

Congratulations !!!!

Durham isn't even that good anyway. They get masses of Oxbridge rejects because London is perceived as too expensive and crowded with international students, hence why much stronger universities like Imperial, LSE, UCL, KCL lose out.

Durham only give places to 40% private school students, and 60% state or grammar school. That means you can get rejected even if you exceed their entry requirements. Edinburgh, Bristol, and other top universities do the same. Nottingham does this for Veterinary Science.