Disadvantages of York Uni?

York is the most hygienic city in Britain, which is a plus.

I didn't like most of the 1960s architecture including the accommodation- apart from Central Hall it's not especially monumental. Parts of the York campus are pretty - e.g. the lake, Heslington Hall and the more modern buildings such as the Computer Science building. The campus is effectively dead and very boring on a weekend. I would strongly recommend that you visit anywhere that you intend to study at before applying.

York City itself is beautiful. If you want to eat out at restaurants and go to the many, many pubs (it's easy to believe that there might be 1 for each day of the year) the city is a very excellent place for that. There are many, many more options for that there than at, for example, Durham.

But the campus and the city may as well be on different planets from each other.

For Maths, York only rates 33rd according to The Guardian (15th according to The Times).

I also went to Leicester University, which ranks approximately level with York these days in the legaue tables but Leicester ranks a lot more highly for Mathematics. (6th in the Guardian and 5th in The Times).

I'd strongly consider Leicester if it isn't too late.

I'll assume that you had considered Warwick (which I haven't visited) as well - it's another 60s generation campus like York but it may have a very different feel .

This, I can answer!
I'm from Warwickshire, and I'm loving it up here. The distance into town isn't so bad, it's easy to get to the train station and there are good rails links to the West Midlands, especially Birmingham. There's a couple of trains a day that go direct to my town - I love not having to change - so that's convenient. The distance home might be more than you might be comfortable with - it's 3/4 hours in the car for me - but if you don't mind being further away, it's fine.
Whereabouts in the West Midlands do you hail from?

York is the most hygienic city in Britain, which is a plus.

I read this on msn! Bristol is the most unhygenic!

Back to the whole "York is **** for nightlife" debate. :/

It's how you make it. If you've got a good bunch of friends around you you can have an amazing time in York.

Loads of bars do triples for singles mixers which is an absolute bargain, and most nights there are cheap drinks offers on. £1.40 pints etc. True the clubs aren't the greatest in the world, but **** me are they a laugh. Everybody who goes there know they're ****, and that's what funny. Everyone takes the piss of out Ziggys because of how sweaty it is

£2.50 bus return is expensive. Share a taxi with 5 people on the way back and you're paying £1-£2 each. Overall pricing for York, it's fairly cheap, Mr £Wich the pound sandwich is amazing, and some of the tearooms do epic breakfast's.

In conclusion - Amazing!

Well I am someone who lives between Hull and York all my life and I can tell you Hull is a bag of **** compared to York.

It's not an ideal distance into town. but i guess if it were it couldn't really be a campus uni, which i think is a big advantage, having everything in the uni quite close by. and it's such a nice campus to be at - you've got the lake, the ducks/geese/swans, trees, squirrels, even bunnies

one problem i have is that on campus the only supermarket type shop is Costcutter - which is laughably expensive. The co-op is about 15/20 minutes away, which can be quite fatiguing with a lot of shopping bags.

With your reputation point, I don't think reputation always corresponds to how good an educational experience you'll get. York is in the top ten for student satisfaction, and i can say i've been very impressed with the teaching and resources I've got so far. Bristol, as far as I've gathered, could do a lot better in terms of student satisfaction. I just mean that there are more important things than reputation that an applicant should prioritize.

. The co-op is about 15/20 minutes away, which can be quite fatiguing with a lot of shop

Ok thanks a lot.

Sure there are more important things, but reputation also go's a long way! It's arguable that somehwhere like Warwick is as good as Oxford for Maths, but most would consider a degree from Oxford far more impressive.
If you call Oxford Cambridge the first tier, then Durham, Bristol, Warwick, Imperial the second tier, it sounds like York is high up in the third tier.

but I think I'm having a better time here than if I went to Warwick to be honest

There's a co-op? Where's that?

Sure there are more important things, but reputation also go's a long way! It's arguable that somehwhere like Warwick is as good as Oxford for Maths, but most would consider a degree from Oxford far more impressive.
If you call Oxford Cambridge the first tier, then Durham, Bristol, Warwick, Imperial the second tier, it sounds like York is high up in the third tier.

There's a co-op? Where's that?

Sounds about right
York makes a good insurance choice with that offer - it was mine, with Warwick first choice, but I think I'm having a better time here than if I went to Warwick to be honest

Because of your epic next door neighbours

If you walk down University Road, in the west direction, and keep going, then eventually u get to this cross junction bit with a pizza hut there, then you turn right there (down Hull road), and keep going, and then on the right is the co op. it's big by co op standards, about the size of a Lidl.

Ah good. I would have applied to Warwick but it's far too close to where i live! So what kind of time did you get your offer? What were your As's/predicted grades?
cheers

Only real annoyance I've found so far is shopping. The cost-cutter on campus doesn't have alot of choice and is expensive (though really useful to have for bread/milk etc., and when you realise you have absolutely nothing to eat). The co-op isn't too much of a walk, but again pretty small. Morrisons is quite a long walk (but huge and fairly cheap), atleast when you have a weeks worth of shopping - Walking there is easy enough (I'd guess 25mins or so, never properly timed it), but my arms feel like they're going to fall off walking back. As far as I know there's no bus that goes close from campus, either.

I'm not really a fan of clubbing so I'll leave that for other people to argue over

Only real annoyance I've found so far is shopping. The cost-cutter on campus doesn't have alot of choice and is expensive (though really useful to have for bread/milk etc., and when you realise you have absolutely nothing to eat). The co-op isn't too much of a walk, but again pretty small. Morrisons is quite a long walk (but huge and fairly cheap), atleast when you have a weeks worth of shopping - Walking there is easy enough (I'd guess 25mins or so, never properly timed it), but my arms feel like they're going to fall off walking back. As far as I know there's no bus that goes close from campus, either.

Only real annoyance I've found so far is shopping. The cost-cutter on campus doesn't have alot of choice and is expensive (though really useful to have for bread/milk etc., and when you realise you have absolutely nothing to eat). The co-op isn't too much of a walk, but again pretty small. Morrisons is quite a long walk (but huge and fairly cheap), atleast when you have a weeks worth of shopping - Walking there is easy enough (I'd guess 25mins or so, never properly timed it), but my arms feel like they're going to fall off walking back. As far as I know there's no bus that goes close from campus, either.

I'm not really a fan of clubbing so I'll leave that for other people to argue over