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Has anyone got a rough idea of the percentage of private school students and state school students go to Lancaster?
Is it fairly even or are there more private?
Is it fairly even or are there more private?
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Although I don't go there (will do in Sept) I think it is actually minimal - below 10% at least. If there are people from private schol there aren't any rah-ry cliques. In fact it is quite a northern university in my opinion, I'm form berkshire so love the mixture of accents - my friends at exeter and bristol don't have anywhere near as much diversity.
Although I don't go there (will do in Sept) I think it is actually minimal - below 10% at least. If there are people from private schol there aren't any rah-ry cliques. In fact it is quite a northern university in my opinion, I'm form berkshire so love the mixture of accents - my friends at exeter and bristol don't have anywhere near as much diversity.
Do you know, I was there for three years and I have no idea where people went to school. It really doesn't matter at Lancaster, no-one cares where you come from or what your background is. I did find out over time that a lot of my friends were privately educated, that may be down to the circles I moved in and the societies I joined. But it did not matter in the least. Certainly I never met any Rah's, and no-one ever looked down on me because I came from a very down-market state comprehensive.
I've met quite a lot of people who are private school education alongside many who are not. No one really minds what school you went to and the only "rah" type people I know [all 3 of them lol] actually went to state schools.
I think the newspaper 'reviews' of the university tend to stress that they reach their state school intake targets but not so much the 'class' based targets, with the working classes being slightly under represented. [Of course, class is a very difficult thing to define etc etc.]
In other words, don't worry about it.
I think the newspaper 'reviews' of the university tend to stress that they reach their state school intake targets but not so much the 'class' based targets, with the working classes being slightly under represented. [Of course, class is a very difficult thing to define etc etc.]
In other words, don't worry about it.
Thanks guys, I come from private school and people can be fairly judgemental about it, so would be slightly concerned going somewhere where I was totally outnumbered and people had the stereotypical veiw of private school students.
I'm privately (boarding) educated... no one cares. There aren't enougb of us here for people to have negative views of us for longer than about 30 seconds.
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Thanks guys, I come from private school and people can be fairly judgemental about it, so would be slightly concerned going somewhere where I was totally outnumbered and people had the stereotypical veiw of private school students.
Then don't tell anyone? It's not an issue unless you make it one.
Most of us 'sane' people don't differentiate or care of this trivial attribute, and I'm sure most of the students at Lancaster are the same.
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