Am I crazy?

I'm sure you have made what was for you a rational decision. Its just not one that many others have made. You have chosen to prioritise a party atmosphere university where the students will have achieved less at A2 and where your chances of a first will be correspondingly higher. You have turned down four universities which are more prestigious, look more impressive on a CV and so have better career prospects. You have turned down the opportunity to have some of the best teaching at any university in the country but where you will have to work very intensively for a university where you will have around 10 hours a week of lectures, workshops and film watching a week.

I'm sure you have made what was for you a rational decision. Its just not one that many others have made. You have chosen to prioritise a party atmosphere university where the students will have achieved less at A2 and where your chances of a first will be correspondingly higher. You have turned down four universities which are more prestigious, look more impressive on a CV and so have better career prospects. You have turned down the opportunity to have some of the best teaching at any university in the country but where you will have to work very intensively for a university where you will have around 10 hours a week of lectures, workshops and film watching a week.

You may regret it later but unless you get A*A*A and decide to take a Gap Year you now have to make the best of it.

Going to Newcastle isn't a "party atmosphere" - it's a top university which, albeit having a good social seance, has an academic atmosphere. It isn't exactly much of a difference in achievement at A2. I wouldn't say Edinburgh is a lot more prestigious, it's roughly comparable; especially for what I want to do. Newcastle, as a university, has fantastic career prospects with a particularly high graduate employment rate. What makes you think the teaching is that much different? Your ignorance is actually humorous because you think it makes you sound smart but, in reality, you just sound pathetic and sneering which is never attractive. I found the "film watching" particularly annoying. You treat Newcastle as if it isn't a top university when it very clearly is or I would have never had chosen it.

Going to Newcastle isn't a "party atmosphere" - it's a top university which, albeit having a good social seance, has an academic atmosphere. It isn't exactly much of a difference in achievement at A2. I wouldn't say Edinburgh is a lot more prestigious, it's roughly comparable; especially for what I want to do. Newcastle, as a university, has fantastic career prospects with a particularly high graduate employment rate. What makes you think the teaching is that much different? Your ignorance is actually humorous because you think it makes you sound smart but, in reality, you just sound pathetic and sneering which is never attractive. I found the "film watching" particularly annoying. You treat Newcastle as if it isn't a top university when it very clearly is or I would have never had chosen it.

You have undoubtedly made an error in judgment by choosing an inferior university as Colmans so delicately pointed out. The calibre of students at Cambridge far exceeds that of their Newcastle counterparts. You chose an easy ride because you are not as ambitious as others. Good luck with your future.

Absolute rubbish! I didn't "chose an easy ride" and if you think Newcastle can justifiably be regarded as such then you seriously need to rethinking your understanding of universities. Nor did I chose it because I'm less ambitious. I decided on Newcastle because, shock horror, I actually preferred it to Cambridge and would rather spend 3 years of my life there. Obviously Cambridge is in a different league but there's not much between Newcastle and the other universities I got offers from. Oh and, just for the record, if I had firmed Cambridge then I'd be going because I got grades that far exceeded their offer.

And what grades were those?

P.S. For an English student, you have appalling grammar. You can't seem to differentiate between "choose" and "chose"...

I think you'll find there's a difference between having appalling grammar and making a typo on TSR where I don't check the grammar of my posts.

Why should I tell you my grades? If I did firm Cambridge then my grades would have surpassed the offer by a good bit, that's all you need to know about them.