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Best University freebies?

Being at heart a cheapskate, of course the quality of freebies a university offers is just as important as the course they do! So with that in mind, I'd like to find out which universities offer the best freebies, and how you claim them!

To start with a feeble few of my own, because the haul so far has not been very good, I've got so far:
Aberystwyth: A snazzy yellow free ballpoint pen, and my travel costs for the visiting day paid!
Oxford Brookes: A recycled pencil from the School of Social Sciences and Law from a general open day
Oxford University: Free boarding and food at interviews, and some college notepaper (hmm, maybe technically that wasn't free)
UCE Birmingham: Free pen sent me in unsolicted mail!

And the 'roll of shame':
Manchester: Absolutely nothing on the visiting day.

Can anyone beat that? I saw some folk with Aber umbrellas - were they free? Anyone win a free iPod or anything in a prize draw for applicants?

Reply 1

Agrippina

15

At a UCAS fair I got a pack of playing cards from Essex (I think it was), which had this wonderful picture of smiley face biscuits and party rings on each card! :biggrin:

Reply 2

ssmoose

13

Glamorgan gave me a brain, at a HE fair, like a stress ball.

Reply 3

gianthead

12

when I visited Chester, they gave a most magnificent lunch. I was expected the refresments to be limpid biscuits and a crumbly cup of tea, but although the tea was a trifle weak; the sandwichs, sausage rolls, cakes and crisps more than made up for it. :biggrin:

Didn't bother to visit any other unis.

Reply 4

Bah! Work!

at a Ucas fair i got a frisbee from one of the universities, that was pretty cool

Reply 5

jointhedots

16

Rachel

At a UCAS fair I got a pack of playing cards from Essex (I think it was), which had this wonderful picture of smiley face biscuits and party rings on each card! :biggrin:

At a UCAS fair a few years ago I got a really cool gingerbread man shaped stressball from Essex! It was so cute I kept going past again and again to collect more :biggrin:

didn't convince me to go there but still...

Reply 6

philjw

OP

13

Bah! Work!

at a Ucas fair i got a frisbee from one of the universities, that was pretty cool

Wow, a freebie frisbee! I'm looking forwards to joining the Ultimate Frisbee team at whichever uni I go to (let nobody say I didn't do any sport at university!)

Reply 7

RJA

2

gianthead

when I visited Chester, they gave a most magnificent lunch. I was expected the refresments to be limpid biscuits and a crumbly cup of tea, but although the tea was a trifle weak; the sandwichs, sausage rolls, cakes and crisps more than made up for it. :biggrin:

i second that! been 2 chester on a few one-day courses, and they do a banquet like that every time :biggrin:

Reply 8

Juno

20

Fresher's week is even better. I got Guinness bunting!

Reply 9

Agrippina

15

misslibby

At a UCAS fair a few years ago I got a really cool gingerbread man shaped stressball from Essex! It was so cute I kept going past again and again to collect more :biggrin:

didn't convince me to go there but still...

They're obviously desperate for students :p:

Reply 10

ssmoose

13

They're obviously desperate for students

Judge a university on the quality of their freebies. Or lack of quality.

Reply 11

loftx

7

Essex maths applicants get a special prize if they come on the open day and their team wins the "Essex Maths Challenge" - I won't spoil the surprise though :smile:

Reply 12

sidekick

12

Lancaster gave me a cuddly heffalump! And I was only there with my brother... :biggrin:

Oh, wait, no that was the barclays bank stall at lancaster... still though! :yy:

Reply 13

xoxo_GossipGirl

11

At the DMU open day I got a silver 15-cd case, a pen, quite posh it even had a rubber grip! And sometihng else, but im not sure what it is, you wear it round your neck, and it has a clip thing at the bottom, like what people where when they're going in a VIP area or something.

At Sheffield I got a free Itch sheffield guide, thats usually £3 and a pen.

Loughborough just gave me a pen, and it didnt even say lufbra on it! just waitrose

Reply 14

citrus_punch

In australia the uni's all give away show bags examples...
GU - included but not limited to (gu) sunnies, bottle of water (gu brandered), food tokens ie free macca's big mac, subway buy one get on free, and heaps of useless info on finding yourself.
SCU - diary, wall planner, free gym session, apple, lifesavers (mmm yum!), packets of chips, pen, hat, free coffee voucher yeah thats all i can remember rite now but i would recomened flighting all the way to the land of oz just for the free uni show bags

Reply 15

IainM

11

My friend has been given £1000 free as a bribe to go to Northumbria!

Reply 16

Juno

20

-x-buttercup-x-

At the DMU open day I got a silver 15-cd case, a pen, quite posh it even had a rubber grip! And sometihng else, but im not sure what it is, you wear it round your neck, and it has a clip thing at the bottom, like what people where when they're going in a VIP area or something.

At Sheffield I got a free Itch sheffield guide, thats usually £3 and a pen.

Loughborough just gave me a pen, and it didnt even say lufbra on it! just waitrose

That's called a "lanyard"

Reply 17

philjw

OP

13

-x-buttercup-x-

Loughborough just gave me a pen, and it didnt even say lufbra on it! just waitrose

Waitrose? I think you've been had! I could have got you one of them (just pay with a card: waitrose customers are generally middle-class retirees with half-moon glasses who can't use chip and pin, so they let you sign for card purchases. Then keep the pen the gal on the checkout gives you.)

Reply 18

zoea85

2

Aber gave me a huge Calender and I took about 5 yellow Aber pens that are still working today and Exeter had lots and lots of borbon (spelling?) biscuits on their open day and free cofee/tea ... Open days are fun especially when borbon biscuits are involved!!!

Reply 19

Kittennffc

15

Liverpool University put on a huge lunch buffet for the English Open Day, yum!

Got so many information packs and things like that from quite a few places, errrmm!

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