Durham taking their time

I sent my application off about 10 weeks ago, and still haven’t heard back from Durham, who said they aim to reply within 6-8 weeks. I appreciate they are very busy and probably closed for Christmas now, but I was wondering if this is the same with anyone else? I applied for history by the way

I sent my application off about 10 weeks ago, and still haven’t heard back from Durham, who said they aim to reply within 6-8 weeks. I appreciate they are very busy and probably closed for Christmas now, but I was wondering if this is the same with anyone else? I applied for history by the way

I sent my application off about 10 weeks ago, and still haven’t heard back from Durham, who said they aim to reply within 6-8 weeks. I appreciate they are very busy and probably closed for Christmas now, but I was wondering if this is the same with anyone else? I applied for history by the way

I sent my application off about 10 weeks ago, and still haven’t heard back from Durham, who said they aim to reply within 6-8 weeks. I appreciate they are very busy and probably closed for Christmas now, but I was wondering if this is the same with anyone else? I applied for history by the way

I sent my UCAS application for computer science in mid-December and got an offer 3 or 4 days after applying. Durham was the first to reply for me so I'm sorry to hear they haven't given you an update. How is it now though?

I've been waiting for 16 weeks now and still no news. I applied on September 27th. Most of the Durham offers last year at my school came in around April (and everyone got in). The weird thing is that it's my last decision. I thought it would be Imperial that would take their time because very few people got offers last year in December and the bulk of them came out in late Feb/March, but I got my offer in December and so did loads of other people for CS and other departments.

I'm international so that might be a factor. Also, you apply way early, maybe they know you're applying for oxford so they're sort of waiting to see whether you're withdrawing from them or not? Well since you got into imperial, if I were you I would assume it's a guranteed offer from them so you can just start planning from now

I'm international so that might be a factor. Also, you apply way early, maybe they know you're applying for oxford so they're sort of waiting to see whether you're withdrawing from them or not? Well since you got into imperial, if I were you I would assume it's a guranteed offer from them so you can just start planning from now

I hope so. I really need an insurance choice!

Yeah I have a friend who is classed as international as well and he's still waiting too so I guess so but he applied on the same day as me (We applied to the same places but he applied to Bath and I applied to Edinburgh).

Even if I did get into Cambridge, I probably would still insure with Durham because my other places have higher requirements and I have to sit the STEP for Imperial which is a huge risk for an insurance choice. I got rejected from Cambridge so it's not like I have a choice. Also, call this controversial but I would probably go for Imperial if I got into Cambridge and Imperial purely because I like the greater focus on practical applications. The Cambridge course is far too theoretical and the workload you have leaves you with no time to gain extra skills to prepare for industry. The languages you learn at university are more or less never used in industry so you gotta pick up other skills along the way. Cambridge is far more interested in producing researchers than getting people into industry. Also, internship opportunities are far greater at Imperial than Cambridge and Oxford (but Oxford is better than Cambridge for internship opportunities and the companies that pick you up for these internships).

Had our school record with Oxford not been as atrocious as it is, I would have applied to Oxford but I went for Cambridge in the end.

you don't want to make the other universities your insurance?

Well, my other two are Manchester and Edinburgh both with 3 A* offers. Edinburgh say minimum entry is AAB but I got hit with the top end of their offer requirements.

3A*??? how and why, that's very wild, yeah I would insure Durham too. Thankfully both my offers aren't as outrageous