Official Durham Applicants Thread 2011

Hi, I'm Grey too (for history) I don't see many other Grey people on here so I thought I'd say hi Open days are 22nd/23rd March and you can stay in the college the night before if you want. Do you think you'll go?

Hi No, me neither. I got the letter today, I'm going for the 22nd , hopefully staying over the night before.

Update on Biomed Offers:

From what I can tell the following have had offers and colleges allocated:

Stevo:
Wailinza (yes)
MessyRoom
RadioHawk
Mooniibuggy (no) - insurance

John Snow:
GreyFox
Kristinalovesu
SeasickSteve

Be great to see how many others there are that have had offers and colleges allocated??

I've also just booked to go to the open day on the 16th March. Who else is going - stick a yes next to your name?

I applied back in October and I haven't heard anything yet

For all those who have received offers, when your AES updated, were you sent an email or did you find out by constantly checking your AES?

I'm driving myself crazy checking my AES all the time!

I applied back in October and I haven't heard anything yet

For all those who have received offers, when your AES updated, were you sent an email or did you find out by constantly checking your AES?

I'm driving myself crazy checking my AES all the time!

Checking unfortunately!

Don't drive yourself crazy! According to noodlzz AES updates around midnight everyday so just check around then or in the morning.

I've got an offer for History at Grey And I'm going on the 21st/22nd, how about you?

I applied back in October and I haven't heard anything yet

For all those who have received offers, when your AES updated, were you sent an email or did you find out by constantly checking your AES?

I'm driving myself crazy checking my AES all the time!

Hey! I'm going on the 22nd... I'd have liked to stay over on the 21st but I'm at work unfortunately. One thing I'm confused about... it says that tours start from 2pm for people who haven't stayed over the night before, but my Law open day finishes at 4pm?! No idea if I just turn up at like 4pm... :/

And does anyone know if we're allowed to bring guests to the departmental open days?

Not sure what you'd do then, maybe email the college and ask if you can have a tour after the open day.. I'm sure they'd give you one And I don't think guests can come to the actual department stuff but I think there's a talk for parents if that helps?

I might email them after they've replied me with their confirmation email Ah, I'm dead nervous about going by myself! All my other open day offers have asked me to bring guests! :/

I've got an offer for History at Grey And I'm going on the 21st/22nd, how about you?



Hi, I'm Grey too (for history) I don't see many other Grey people on here so I thought I'd say hi Open days are 22nd/23rd March and you can stay in the college the night before if you want. Do you think you'll go?

To be honest so am I... I might be going up from London (where I live) with a friend but she's a different college and department.. I know it'll be really good, I just hope everyone's nice and I'm not rubbish at meeting people

Aw... at least I'm local I suppose, I'm from Newcastle so it's not that far for me People will be nice I suppose, everyone's in the same boat after all!
I'm just dead nervous in case everyone knows each other and I'm gonna like AHHHHH!

Im grey too, feeling slightly nervous about the open day/ night haha :s

Snap, provided they have space Might see you there then... Seeing as you've got an offer from Cambridge (I remmber you from the Cambridge threat ) will you have Durham as your insurance or somewhere else?

I'm 90% Durham for my insurance. Yep may well do.. any idea what we do on this open day?

Ah.. just seen your posts about this to other people. I'm gonna be 18 as well, but not sure on the clubbing front. Exciting though

Apparently there is hardly a clubbing scene in Durham anyway? I suspect everyone will just go to pubs instead.

No, I haven't. The offer came through just last night. Today they sent me an e-mail saying it'd take about three weeks until I hear from my college. I don't know whether it'll be via e-mail, otherwise it might even take a little longer as letters from the UK usually take about a week to reach me.
I know my memory is awful, what was your college again? And what's your first choice at the moment?

You can be rejected after your app gets to a college, but it doesn't seem to happen too frequently.

AES says this about it: '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 and is committed to ensuring that departments and colleges do not make too many offers. Occasionally, a department may inadvertently make a few too many offers, as our monitoring systems are updated on a daily basis rather than in real-time. 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 and an unsuccessful decision will be recorded at UCAS.'