Official Durham Applicants Thread 2011

Same here

Thanks



Haha, thanks :] yeah they seem to be a rare breed on this forum. Ah the methody-bashing :P what school are you at? St Johns, and yourself?

Let's hope you get it, 'twould be good to have another St. John's lawyer!
(I waited about a week after my AES updated to "received by a college" for an offer on UCAS, and then AES said St Johns the other day, about a week after that. Just awaiting the letter now...)

Thanks yeah i know there's not a lot of st johners on here, probably due to the size but still (: Congrats on your offer! A couple of my friends got offers for law at durham last month but aren't even taking them as they're swanning of to Oxbridge, had a strong desire to just hack into their track and steal their offers so heres hoping i won't have to stoop to such desperate levels :P

Quite. I applied to Oxford too, and was interviewed but didn't get in. There are probably certain advantages to Durham: for instance, I reckon the idea of my entire degree being down to 10 three-hour exams in the final year not too peasant a prospect. That being said, if the Oxbridge itch still hasn't worn off, there's always post-grad. And, I should have thought you'll get your first-choice college this early in the process. Where else are you applying, btw?

Anyone offers for PPE? Or know when they start to come out?

Oh no!!!
Do you mind if I ask what your predicted grades, AS grades etc are?

Cheers!

p.s. Congratulations btw

I would also like to know this .

I got an offer from Durham for PPE three months ago

Anybody non-international heard from Durham for History, yet? I think I may have just got the shock of my life/given up hope having just looked at the Entry Standards for Durham for History, according to The Times' Good University Guide 2011 (which, coincidentally, places Durham second for History, above Oxford for the second year running). It's an average of the UCAS Tariff scores of the A and AS levels of first year students there - and the average for Durham is 510.

Haha, thanks :] yeah they seem to be a rare breed on this forum. Ah the methody-bashing :P what school are you at? St Johns, and yourself?

Anybody non-international heard from Durham for History, yet? I think I may have just got the shock of my life/given up hope having just looked at the Entry Standards for Durham for History, according to The Times' Good University Guide 2011 (which, coincidentally, places Durham second for History, above Oxford for the second year running). It's an average of the UCAS Tariff scores of the A and AS levels of first year students there - and the average for Durham is 510. To put that in perspective - if you got 3 A*s at A-level and an A at AS level (according to my use of the UCAS tariff table which I really, really hope is incorrect), you would be left with "just" 480 tariff points. Less than the average at Durham? So if you got 4 A*s at A-level, you would exceed the average standard by a fair amount, but seeing as this is an average, it would seem that many people do reach that standard. 4 A's at A-level would leave you with 480 points - again, short of the Durham average. I'm not saying that Durham do these calculations and look at their average to work out who to give offers to (it seems unlikely, but then again, it is possible - we know so little about their applications system), so I just hope that this high average is a symptom of the high calibre of student that Durham gives offers to for History, and is not a conscious effort by the department to only give offers to the applicants who have done the most A-levels.

Quite paranoid, as you can tell. And I do not quite reach 510... so at least now a rejection would be far more expected and therefore painless! Headed to Bristol, by the looks of things.

At least I now have practice in over-analysing statistics, this could definitely come in useful during my History degree. Cannot wait.

omg finally!!! just checked my AES and I've gotten my college. lol took about a month after my offer came through.
I chose and got Hatfield so so happy! I would've been fine anywhere but I'm just glad I know.

What were you GCSE's and predicted grades like?

I got all A's at AS, 13 A*s at GCSE and a 'B' in General Studies! General Studies makes me want to cry.