Original post by ZorgIt was pretty good, I can't remember all of it off the top of my head but I do remember being pleasantly surprised. There were aspects of the uni I still left unsure about but I did feel it was a nice place to study and that the faculty were really quite supportive. The students all seemed to rave about it, more than most open day students even. I'm really going because it started as 3rd/4th on my personal ranking, but now sits on a solid 2nd. I want to just make sure it is what I imagine it to be and also use it to motivate myself for interviews.
Could you not arrive the night before if you really wanted to attend those talks?
The accommodation, finance and university talks are much of a muchness. They're just there to sell the university to you in a completely unabashed manner. You could very well miss those out and it be of no real significance, I suppose it does settle one down for the morning though.
I've little to no interest in the accommodation tours, unless I hear from the current students that a large majority do live in student accommodation. Even in the event of such, I know a large part of the year choose housemates at the meet and greet, after offers are handed out, and find houses together. I'm quite certain I don't want to be back in halls again.
I am slightly interested in the sports village tour, to see the facilities if nothing else. Not hugely important as if it doesn't meet my needs there will be gyms elsewhere in Swansea I'm sure.
The rest of the morning seems to be tours of the campus and stands from careers, study abroad and SU. All of which you could just do yourself; wander around the campus and/or field questions to the relevant departments via email.
The bit I would say you'd almost certainly want to be there for is the departmental programme, not only because it is a complete mystery as to what they are planning to do, but it's also the perfect opportunity to field questions to the admissions tutors and Dean/professors directly if they are present as they were last time.