Official Durham Applicants Thread 2011

I'm sure you'll stay in the castle at least one year. After writing my last post I actually read that only 300 (give or take) University College members live on campus each year. Statistically, this means you're almost guaranteed to reside in the keep (assuming you live in every year).

For me, it came down to University, Hatfield, and Chad's. They're all quite similar, but with their own positives and negatives. John's was never really an option as I doubt I'd get along with a bunch of Christians. I mean, if they were moderate then it probably wouldn't matter, but I didn't want to take the chance of rooming with a fundie.

As for turning against me, bring it. You don't know the power of the dark side!

SAMEEEE! Did you go to the 2 day open day last term? thought it was pretty good then

Also applying to do maths at:
Christ's College Cambridge
Warwick
Bath
Bristol

I've got very similar choices to you Only real difference is that I'm applying for physics

Maths > Physics lol JK.
Which is your first choice? Mine's Warwick and I would love to have either Bath or Notts as my insurance.

Doing M1 retake, M2 and M3, and M3 is nearly killing me. There's bits of M2 I don't understand as I had to self teach it as well but I'm hoping that I'll get it all done in time!
Really? I find core so much easier than mechanics! It's just too wordy for me!

So if you get allocated a college you basically have an offer?

If you mean on Track then yes but for the Durham AES...

The acknowledgement e-mail says:
"Please note that occasionally some applications are unsuccessful despite being sent to a college as the University is restricted in the number of home offers it can make. These applications are recalled within the University and, even though the AES may have shown that an application has been passed to a college for consideration, the University will not be in a position to make an offer."

So unless the offer is on Track, I wouldn't trust it 100% - there's a whole thread about the questionable reliability of AES

Hope that helps

Thanks! So how do we know we've been assigned a college on track or does it only come on if you get made an offer?

Good luck for Physchology! Sounds interesting

The AES status changes when the application has been forwarded to a college e.g. mine says: Received by Department; Not yet received by a college
But as before, this isn't too reliable in terms of your application status!

In Track, it will only show that a college has been allocated once Durham has made an offer and will show up in the Campus Code section (choices; then either the university column under Durham Uni OR choices; choice details; third down (campus))
ATM mine states T for Trevelyan but I think that if I'm accepted by a different college, this will change to the code for whichever college I'm offered a place with. Once Durham makes an offer, the College write to you directly.

And thanks I'd best not get too carried away about Psych...interesting isn't the word! I'd describe it more like a Class A drug, especially Cognitive psych It can become quite obsessive! lol Which college are you applying for?

I'm at Castle if anyone has any questions.

I applied to.....


.....UNIVERSITY

LMAO as if I even have a chance of getting in. I just put it down and hope for the best. I don't really care that much about college as long as I get in at Durham

Are there no geographers online? As you guessed i am...hopefully ill get onto the human course.

Fingers crossed!

iv heard m3 is hard, but i would rather do that than fp3
ye, self teaching must be pretty hard, though when my teacher is doing an example on the board, i try to do it myself before he does and it usually works
ye some bits confuse me like the centre of mass, why do some methods work and some dont? stuff like that
do u do fp3?

Joke's on me then seeing as I'm doing FP3 and M3. Yay. I do love pure Maths though and am quite enjoying FP2 even though bits of it are quite hard without C3 and C4!