The Durham College Allocation Thread (for 2015 entry)

And does anyone know if Durham Cathedral is part of a college or open to everyone?

Thanks for your help! Hopefully I'm nearing the end of my questions...about general life on campus, are students allowed onto other colleges? For instance if I chose St. Cuthbert's, would I be allowed to use the bar in castle or go to the celebrations held in castle, or are the facilities and activities strictly for those in that college.

Sorry if these are silly questions, we don't really have the college system in the US so it's very new to me.

And does anyone know if Durham Cathedral is part of a college or open to everyone?

Hi. Generally you can use the facilities of other colleges as a guest, if the event is not restricted to that college. So typically you could attend formal dinners at another college but someone would have to invite you. Typically the college bars are open to all every night but on the odd occasion they might be restricted to members of that college.

Thank you, that's super helpful. Can I assume that you were in St. Cuthbert? I am thinking of putting that as my first choice. Do they do a lot of activities as a college? Would you recommend it?

Chad's rules!

Chad's rules!

Definitely, it was absolutely amazing! Did you go to the open day?

Very pleased,too as CUTH's was the college I applied for
We still have time to decide, for the moment I am mostly considering catered for the first year(lazy girl).In this case Bailey should be the best solution.

I went to Durham a few months ago and fell in love with it! I do think I will be on Parsons field though, I like cooking for myself How is the revision going?

Hello! So I was allocated to Van Mildert a little over a month ago. I was extremely disappointed. It was not one of my selections, And the more I research it, the facilities look extremely shabby and the only activities they have revolve around arts and music which I'm not interested in at all. I've tried to be positive, people say you learn to love your college, but I am taking this whole year out in loans and will never have an opportunity like this again and really wanted to make the most of it. In the last month I've seen many people getting into saint aidens or st cuths and I wonder if there's ANYTHING I can do. Do the other colleges have any kind of waiting list? Was there a reason I wasnt selected?