Firm & Insurance Choices

I assume most decisions have now been handed out by universities though I, for one, am still waiting on one.

Which universities are you thinking about putting as your firm and insurance choices?

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Reply 1

Renae_nae

im still waiting for two :s-smilie:

Bristol and Kings

depending on what they offer me these will probably be my choices

FIRM: UCL - AAA
INSURANCE: York - AAB

Reply 2

*River

If I get LSE, then it'll be my firm and I probably won't have an insurance unless Edinburgh give me an offer! (At the moment I only have offers from Warwick and York, and an Oxford rejection).

Reply 3

arabellaweir

I think I'll probs pick York as my firm and Leeds as my insurance. :>

Reply 4

Lucia.

I don't know. I'm waiting on four Unis. :frown:

Reply 5

Jerby

Cambridge as my firm and probably Warwick as insurance. However, that's pretty surpurfluous as all my offers are AAB (actually, can I even do that?!)

Reply 6

-CBee-

Probably (and this is very tentative):
Firm - York (AAB, A in History)
Insurance - Hull (300 UCAS Points)

But if I don't like Hull when I see it in a couple of weeks, then my insurance will either be Leicester or Edinburgh.

Reply 7

sol89

If I had to decide now it would be:

FIRM = Lancaster (ABB)
INSURANCE = Leicester (BBB) or Reading (BBB)

But this is by no means my final decision, it could change completely yet. :biggrin:

Reply 8

Soul Rebel

yo you had similar choices to me, i applied to southampton cardiff and lancaster among others.

im off to lancaster in september, cannot wait.

Reply 9

donvito

Firm:Bristol (AAA)
Insurance:Leeds (AAB)

Reply 10

amzable

Firm: Durham (AAA)
Insurance: Exeter (BBB) although if Warwick get back to me, it will be Warwick!

Reply 11

arabellaweir

Am I silly to turn down Bristol in favour of York? I'm pretty sure I want to put York as my firm choice but maybe I should be picking Bristol instead...? :redface:

Reply 12

NickiM

Firm - Definitely, definitely: Durham (AAA)
Insurance - Torn between York and Warwick (AAB)

Reply 13

amzable

Firm: Durham (AAA)
Insurance: Exeter (BBB) although if Warwick get back to me, it will be Warwick!

Just got rejected from warwick so looks like my insurance choice is exeter. C'est la vie

Reply 14

NickiM

Sorry to hear that Amzable

Reply 15

KerriT

Nicki, Miles Taylor and John Cooper say York (two of my lecturers). Anyway, Durham is your firm so I'm assuming that you like old places and York is brilliant in that respect, Warwick isn't. Warwick/York is one of the most common choices people have to make. I'm off to Edinburgh for the weekend, have fun deciding everyone.

Reply 16

NickiM

I went to York on Wednesday...and I love it. But then Warwick is still really good. Argh. I'm going there on the 7th March...so hopefully that'll help.

Reply 17

Tomber

York has, in my opinion, a far better course than Warwick's, but then again I am a medievalist. There's an excellent centre for medieval studies at York and a good archaeology department too which always helps to make things interesting. Warwick will be good for early modern, Peter Marshall is there I think. I believe they also have a centre for the History of Medicine, but I'm not too sure on that.

I never really looked at either of them seriously though, so I don’t really know the ins and outs of the courses. York was too close to home, I know it very well, and I find the campus a little spread out for my taste. Warwick don't do my area and it’s in Coventry.

If it was me, from the universties mentioned here (aside from Leics); Edinburgh would get my vote every day of the week, even over Durham, it's a superb university. I'm thinking about looking at post grad courses there actually.

Reply 18

AndyTay

Firm - Bristol (AAB)

Not setting an insurance.

Reply 19

NickiM

Tomber

Well, I liked the look of the York course. But I don't know what I want to do - always did modern at school, not really looked at early stuff.

Hehe, well, I see you're at Leicester (?) - that's too close for me hehe. It's my nearest city!