Need to decide what Uni to go to, haven't visited, honest opinions. please reply!!

It might help the quality of advice offered if you told us what you loved about Reading, which other universities you visited, and what you hated about them.

they have cod in Wales But assuming you mean cold it'll be warmer than York as it's much further south. Cardiff has pretty cheap student accommodation, is a very friendly town and has a good academic reputation generally. It's a city centre university but the first year accommodation has a campus feel.

York has a beautiful campus but is a bit away from the centre. Smaller city than Cardiff. Relatives who went there years ago are still in touch with their uni friends so obviously enjoyed it there.

Royal Holloway - has the advantage of being a London university, everyone has heard of London. However it also has the disadvantages - quite a lot of people from London who disappear off home at weekends. More expensive area to live.

Don't know the others at all.

Well I don't know about the other unis but I know someone that goes to Hertforshire and she reallyyy likes it (studies biomedical science)

Maybe take a look at the YouTube tours of Exeter, Southampton, Sussex, Loughborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Bristol? They all have similarities with what you liked about Reading. Also I can't remember whether Bath does history?

Southampton is pretty far from where? It's about an hour from London.

Definitely look at Sussex. It's in Brighton which is a fantastic town, it's got a real bohemian vibe about it. Plus it's by the seaside.

not sure about history but I loved York when I went to see it. I'd second the recommendations for Exeter and Southampton ( to be honest Southampton isn't much further than reading and royal Holloway). I know a few people at Leicester and they love it (although none take history).

University of gibraltar is really good for history xxx hahahah


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Maybe take a look at the YouTube tours of Exeter, Southampton, Sussex, Loughborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Bristol? They all have similarities with what you liked about Reading. Also I can't remember whether Bath does history?

well reading seemed so up to date. the campus was beautiful, the country itself too. not too big but still big enough not to be boring. in terms of the history department it wasn't very big, and some may think that's bad but i think it means that teachers are more likely to be involved with each student, a much more personalized relationship than huge universities like birmingham. i visited lancaster which i hated as the place was so boring and i'm slightly bias towards south cos of the weather. the university was a bit out of the way and there was construction everywhere. they also weren't as helpful there which made a difference. kent i thought was okay but the campus was too spread out and i went to one lecture and it was the most boring thing ever. birmingham similar to kent, it was such a nice university but the history teacher giving the lecture was so boring and not engaging that if i ended up there and had that teacher i'd dread going. i visited queen mary but the lady there was horrible and i was there in freshers week and it seemed so dissapointing, just wasnt for me. i attended a talk of kings collage and royal holloway, kings collage was good but i think applying is too optimistic and royal hollway was okay but it seemed as if the student talking was being forced to say the good things she said. plus it's in surrey so bit out of the way i've heard.

I'm a 2nd year student at Reading, if you got any questions, feel free to ask

i wish but exeter is such high a very competitive so i don't think i'd have much of a chance. southampton is AAB which is possible but i dunno i know a few people there that makes me not very keen on it. do you know any universities which are lower than ABB that are worse applying to? because i have none for my insurance and was thinking oxford brookes which is BBB but cos it's brookes idon't wanna sound snobby but not to sure and also employers may not think it's very good. but it's the only BBB university in england i found