Is Nottingham overly ‘rah’?

Hi all,

I’m interested in studying law at Nottingham now I’ve been rejected from Durham

However, when I looked around it surprised me how similar it was to Exeter and Durham in the sense that there seemed to be a high proportion of ‘rah’ or posh students.

There seemed to be a lot around the campus, more so than some of the other ones I looked around and wondered if I’m right about this or it’s a misconception?

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all but I’m just curious!

Hi all,

I’m interested in studying law at Nottingham now I’ve been rejected from Durham

However, when I looked around it surprised me how similar it was to Exeter and Durham in the sense that there seemed to be a high proportion of ‘rah’ or posh students.

There seemed to be a lot around the campus, more so than some of the other ones I looked around and wondered if I’m right about this or it’s a misconception?

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all but I’m just curious!

(Original post by MaiaHughes2000)


There are a lot of posh students in at the university, not the snobbish kind. A lot of them are nice, party lovers. The reason why they come across posh is because the majority went to private school or grammar. My sister goes there and there are a mix but her friends predominately are from where we live. that just because a large people who go there come from the South East/ South of England. Notts are really good at accommodation so they'll put you with people from where you're from as well as other places so you won't feel homesick.

Thank you So does your sister feel there are a lot of rahs there and does she enjoy it?

How do they know how to put you with for accommodation though so you’re with people you’d fit with?

There seemed to be a lot around the campus, more so than some of the other ones I looked around and wondered if I’m right about this or it’s a misconception?

I mean, this is why you need to take open days with a pinch of salt right. You're making this judgement based on the superficial judgement of just a handful of people who (if it was at an open day) aren't even at the uni yet!

This really shouldn't bother you as a) 'posh' students can be nice too b) if it bothers you just be friends with other people and c) all of the top unis have a decent proportion of privately educated - this is not something you get away from unless you go waaay down the league tables.

If for some reason it does really bother you though the best way is probably to look at the privately educated proportion and compare that with your other choices. A random open day is... definitely not.

Hi all,

I’m interested in studying law at Nottingham now I’ve been rejected from Durham

However, when I looked around it surprised me how similar it was to Exeter and Durham in the sense that there seemed to be a high proportion of ‘rah’ or posh students.

There seemed to be a lot around the campus, more so than some of the other ones I looked around and wondered if I’m right about this or it’s a misconception?

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all but I’m just curious!

Durham is full of actual posh kids, it shows in everything they do, they’re all fit for oxford but couldn’t curb it.

Exeter isn’t posh at all, when they say its full of oxford rejects they mean they didn’t even make it to interview, it has this fake reputation of being posh so when everyone goes there they play along with it, unless posh is another word for no personality, conservative and middle class wealthy but good at heavily exaggerating it. (These people go to university and will be poorer than their parents in the future when university is supposed to do the opposite.)

Nottingham seems great, I have friends who go there and it doesn’t seem to have a class issue. Everyone looks like they wanna have fun, the night life is huge because it has 2 unis, it has respectable courses and an excellent reputation, you will need to invest in designer vintage sportswear though.

There are other high ranking unis such as UEA or Surrey which domino have a large portion of 'posh people', just hard working people. If you want a Russel group with non posh/ a bigger mix of people go to Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle, Warwick and/or Sheffield.

Is Nottingham not particularly diverse then?

I got a very posh vibe from Exeter when I went there, almost everyone looked the same haha but it may have a little exaggerated you're right.

And that's encouraging about Nottingham - would you recommend it then?

why do u call posh people 'rah'?

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all but I’m just curious!

With these posh folk, you cannot for your life get them to stop singing Boney M's Rasputin. I don't know what it is, maybe they all are forced to listen to it as children. Naturally, the association was formed.

When did she get invited to the groups? Nearer results day?

Hi all,

I’m interested in studying law at Nottingham now I’ve been rejected from Durham

However, when I looked around it surprised me how similar it was to Exeter and Durham in the sense that there seemed to be a high proportion of ‘rah’ or posh students.

There seemed to be a lot around the campus, more so than some of the other ones I looked around and wondered if I’m right about this or it’s a misconception?

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all but I’m just curious!

not too sure actually, it seemed like all of summer but i'm not sure, it was deffo before results and it wasn't an unconditional offer.