[JohnKennedy]

Hey yall',

I was wondering which Durham colleges could be said to be as grand and old as Christ Church oxford or say King's Cambridge, I'm thinking of applying for economics.

Many thanks

[GHOSH-5]

university college, aka castle.

[Becca]

Well, Castle is the oldest college in Durham, with some parts of the building dating from 900AD, and it's certainly pretty grand, being a castle and looking out onto the cathedral. However, I'm not sure if you're aware that unlike Oxbridge, no teaching is done within colleges at Durham, it's all centralised, so the course you apply to has no real bearing on which college you get into - all acceptances and rejections to the university are done via the department.
Castle also has the highes applications:places ratio of all the colleges. Some years this goes as high as 23:1, but the average is something like 18:1.

[JohnKennedy]

Do you think that Durham would mind if i applied for Economics but mentioned philosophy in my PS? (I don't want to apply for PPE, i am only interested in economics and joint economics and philosophy courses)

[{City17}]

It depends how much of your personal statement is about Philosophy. If it is only a few sentences, for example, I am sure they will be fine with it.

[WokSz]

Why not mention Economic Philosophy?

[JohnKennedy]

yeah i was going to mention people like A.Sen in my ps

[arkbar]

Bloody yanks.

[generic hybrid]

Originally Posted by arkbar

Bloody yanks.

There are only about three of us doing undergrad at Durham anyway...

[arkbar]

And most of those are people educated at international schools (of the ones I've met).

[WokSz]

Out of curiousity, what made you guys choose Durham?

[generic hybrid]

Originally Posted by WokSz

Out of curiousity, what made you guys choose Durham?

I was already in the UK when I applied, and I didn't apply to any American universities, so I guess that makes my situation kind of different.

But since I'd just come to the country and didn't really know anywhere that was good, I actually just went down a list of typical offers from various English departments and researched some of the highest ones, and then basically just decided to apply to Durham because I heard Bill Bryson was the chancellor.

So I guess I'm lucky that I liked it, haha.

[WokSz]

Gotta love how you put your future into the hands of pure chance .

[generic hybrid]

Originally Posted by WokSz

Gotta love how you put your future into the hands of pure chance .

I researched them all a little bit, but really I was just figuring that out of the six at least one of them would probably be okay.

But yeah, I was not especially thorough.

[Hopping Mad Kangaroo]

Originally Posted by WokSz

Out of curiousity, what made you guys choose Durham?

I used an Ouija board

[Aula]

'cause Durham is gorgeous.

[WokSz]

It was directed towards the Americans, but good to know .

[NDGAARONDI]

I'd say St John's was the equivalent of ChCh.