Changing course once you get to Durham.

Sorry to post in the current students thread, i thought I would get a better response and I might be a Durham student soon anyway. I have an offer in clearing from Durham but it isn't quite the right course for me. I was just wondering if it would be possible to change courses once I am at Durham? Would I have to have the A-level grades to meet the offer of that course?

If not, how about after the first year if I have done really well in my courses?

Thanks

Anyone? Or do you really take offence to me posting here?

Sorry to post in the current students thread, i thought I would get a better response and I might be a Durham student soon anyway. I have an offer in clearing from Durham but it isn't quite the right course for me. I was just wondering if it would be possible to change courses once I am at Durham? Would I have to have the A-level grades to meet the offer of that course?

If not, how about after the first year if I have done really well in my courses?

Thanks

What course to and from?

I have an offer for Biological Anthropology at the Queens Campus which isn't really where I want to be. I would like to change to a business or social sciences course. My dream was English but I know there is no chance of getting onto that course with my grades and how competitve it is at Durham.

You may be able to change after your 1st year though. Someone I know has just changed from business accounting and finance at stockton to combined social sciences in durham city after their 1st year. =]

So, once you arrive at Durham you want to change to another course on the other campus? After you've arrived? No chance.
You might get onto one of the stockton business courses though.

Thanks for the reply. Wow that would be amazing if I could do that, is he on TSR?!

I'd be highly surprised if you got into Combined Social Sciences. They have a no transfer policy now, which is nothing to do with them - some people much higher up banned them from letting people transfer in because too many people were doing it every year and it became, guess what, an "admin issue". I guess if people want to do it, they need extra special circumstances.

To be fair though, even if changing courses is a possibility, changing campus does not sound as straightforward...Is there anything at Stockton you fancy? Maybe Psychology or something, which is apparently quite social sciency at Queens.

I have an offer for Biological Anthropology at the Queens Campus which isn't really where I want to be. I would like to change to a business or social sciences course. My dream was English but I know there is no chance of getting onto that course with my grades and how competitve it is at Durham.

She's a girl. Lol.

Don't think she's on tsr but she is on facebook if u pm me your fb address i can suggest u as a friend? (if that's allowed?)

I think its possilbe , I think you do need to have met the requirements though in GCSE and A-level so I have been informed.

Ah that could be a problem. I might re-sit some exams as an external candidate when I get to Stockton at a college there as I only need to do a bit here and there to get AAA.

I'd be highly surprised if you got into Combined Social Sciences. They have a no transfer policy now, which is nothing to do with them - some people much higher up banned them from letting people transfer in because too many people were doing it every year and it became, guess what, an "admin issue". I guess if people want to do it, they need extra special circumstances.

To be fair though, even if changing courses is a possibility, changing campus does not sound as straightforward...Is there anything at Stockton you fancy? Maybe Psychology or something, which is apparently quite social sciency at Queens.

Why don't you ask Durham University ? Email them or something. They will tell you from the horses mouth.