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Student in the Laboratory, Lancaster University
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Reply 1
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erm... not completly sure what you are asking...
you apply to the uni, then select which colledge you which to be in..


and hopefully you get it...
Student in the Laboratory, Lancaster University
Lancaster University
Lancaster
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As mentioned, the process is:

- Apply to Lancaster Uni for the course of your choice.
- If you get an offer and accept it, you are invited to apply for colleges.
- You apply for two colleges, and your corresponding accommodation choices.
- They allocate you a place [college preferences are not guaranteed].

In other words, no you have to specify a college when applying for accommodation but you are not guaranteed a place in that college. :smile:
Reply 3
Have you applied to Lancaster yet? If not, all applications are "open" because you apply to the university, not a college (different from Oxbridge and Durham in that way.)
When you have accepted an offer, you then HAVE TO choose two colleges that you would like to be allocated to. These are just preferences, you could in theory be placed in any one of the 8 undergrad colleges.
You would not lose your place if your 1st or 2nd choice colleges were full.
Reply 4
When applying to Oxbridge im pretty sure you can leave it open if youre not sure which one to choose, other than that im not really sure :s-smilie:
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When applying to Oxbridge im pretty sure you can leave it open if youre not sure which one to choose, other than that im not really sure :s-smilie:

I'm pretty sure with Oxbridge it works differently in that you don't apply directly to the University but to individual College's instead, and that they deal with your admissions on a Collegiate basis. While Lancaster University is considered a Collegiate University this is only true for welfare and housing, your academic studies are not conducted on a Collegiate basis, and therefore when you apply to Lancaster University you do just that, you apply to the University.

You get the opportunity to give your two College preferences at a later date, once you get your A-Level results you will then get placed into a College. So as mentioned before if you put popular Colleges like Furness and Lonsdale as your choices you'll just get placed elsewhere instead rather than getting rejecting.