Official Durham Applicants Thread 2011

You could put this on the Durham Firmers thread too.

Mildert is one of them, according to their website.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/van-mildert.college/undergraduate/fees/

How recent was your letter?
The best thing to do is to ring up the college asap and ask what exactly the options are, how much it will cost and what financial help they have to help you.

Do you happen to know about St Chads? I checked their site but they only seem to have last years rates up.....

Fantastic :/ I have a letter dated 6th April that says "the basic charge for standard-term time accommodation, including all meals will be approx £4980 p.a. There will also be a number of rooms available for an extended letting period". So that's more than £500 difference. Not very impressed to be honest seeing as I could have had a room at Warwick (self-catered admittedly for £70 a week). Seems a bit late to be springing it on students.

Rant over. I guess I just need to contact the college to find out more. £5500 seems extortionate though, when there's no choice of accommodation within colleges price-wise.

Chad's as far as I know are the only college not to announce yet .

Fantastic :/ I have a letter dated 6th April that says "the basic charge for standard-term time accommodation, including all meals will be approx £4980 p.a. There will also be a number of rooms available for an extended letting period". So that's more than £500 difference. Not very impressed to be honest seeing as I could have had a room at Warwick (self-catered admittedly for £70 a week). Seems a bit late to be springing it on students.

Rant over. I guess I just need to contact the college to find out more. £5500 seems extortionate though, when there's no choice of accommodation within colleges price-wise.

Are you German?

Just firmed Chad's for Philosophy! Heck yeahhh xD

Firmed for NatSci at Castle! Finally!!!!!

Hi im applying to do Geology at Durham and staying at University College.
Durham is my first choice and i understand that im likley to share a room at my college.
However i am gay and although i dont have a problem sharing a room, i understand it could be an issue for someone else. I would just like to know if anyone could tell me what to do or who to talk to in advance if an issue were to arise. Id be grateful for any advice.
Thankyou for your time.

Best of luck in your exams, hopefully we'll be seeing you in October

If you are applying to University College, you are actually more likely to get a single room. Also- on your form you can request specifically to get a single room (if you have a good reason- I'd say you do, I know people with much more superficial reasons to have single rooms ). I would hope that any Castleman would be more than o.k. with your sexuality though, and we have a great welfare team here.