What's Durham Uni like?

oh right!!! does anyone in here go to private school?

Has anyone been there or know anyone who has? I heard Collingwood is a great college to live in. Which others are good? Is Durham a nice place? I want to study BA Geography there btw

Durham is so so so so so so so so so cool! Cuths is the best college (society) by far!!!!!!!!!!!!

Errm...Im from a "voluntarily-Aided school", so i dont really know whether that counts as private or not Its a grammar school but it aint posh

Oh well you got two of those right.

which two?

i didn't much like collingwood when i went there. it seemed a bit stuck up and its bar was full of really rude people. they were really mean to the friend i was visiting because she didn't go to their college, really really mean. and we drank in many of the college bars, and that was the only one where anyone was crap. i've applied to grey - it seems friendly and nice and they have a cheese society.

OK I specify, what does he mean with "extension of the public school system"?

Weeell, it has a rather large proportion of students from public school. Public School in the UK refers independent schools, these are fee based, and are actually quite exclusive, i.e. Eton, Harrow, Winchester and the like. Now, as only 1/5 or less (or thereabouts) of students from each of these schools actually make it into Oxbridge, the system needs to accommodate the rest of them.

This is were Durham steps in. It even provides a collegiate system, which on paper seems rather like Oxbridge, even though there are some notable differences, which arise out of the disparity in funding between Oxbridge and Durham. It keeps them happy, and at times they even start to think they're AT Oxford, suppose the collegiate system has this effect.

Hmm whats all that meant to mean? That Durham is just a lower-down version of Oxbridge? That aint what Durham's about. Its a good uni, and thats why the people who were unsucessful with their Oxbridge applications decide to go there. And its collegiate system, its only there because its one of the oldest universities in the UK, and thats how traditional unis were, and not because it is to make people think its AT Oxford as you say.

Yours is a state school.

St Cuth's is a college.

Collingwood's the best!

J.

I Beg to disagree... Hatfield is clearly the best, and those that claim to hate it, are only secretly jealous

You know what guys? That everybody finds a different college to be the best really calms me down! I really thought (think) I made the wrong choice but looking at the fanatism here... None of them can be too bad!! Only stupid here does not seem to be anybody who made the same choice as me

What college are you going to and what subject you studyin?

I applied for physics and chose St. Chads College (I was in quite a rush because of the deadline...).

woohoo! im doing physics too, but im going to van mildert. i know someone going to st chad's tho, v. religious apparently

But anyway I have to get in first ;-) How possible is it actually to change college?