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Glasgow, Edinburgh, Royal Holloway and Winchester

Hi everyone,

It has been months since I posted a thread but seem to get quite a few private messages from students, feel like the Student Room Team Mum!

I wanted to address Missy's request for information as she wanted my opinion or Glasgow/ Edinburgh of which I just read the thread of which has been closed and seemed to have gone out of control.

Lisa originally considered Glasgow U along with Edinburgh U and with consideration towards her international baccaluareate exams and missing a point needed on the Physics 2, hardest exam produced by IBO, for her it was a blessing in disguise as she no longer wanted the larger city life being only 18 as she had once thought. U of Glasgow is a world class city, sadly there is a darker underside there, it is more like New York in that regard with stabbings and not safe through Kelvin Park and near campus in the evenings. A friend of mine, her husband went there two months ago on buisness and thought it was very nice and had changed since he was there years ago. The university has a wonderful reputation but you must look over your shoulder of which worried me as this process continued. With U of Edinburgh, another great college, it has its fair share of issues and is known as the Aids capitol of Europe with the issue to drugs, again, a lovely city but with a dark side.

As the process went on, Lisa was released and could have pursued her other four choices and found several others that were smaller and in safer areas. She applied and made nearly all of them with not as demanding perfect scores needed. There were about another ten to consider and when it came down to it, I encouraged her to find a smaller and much safer campus being so far from California. She considered the choices and Royal Holloway was one possibility but I will tell you it is 95 percent females there, few males of which was a determining factor. We visited the campus last year and main building is beautiful, although out in the middle of no where and you must taxi to train station to even get to London and takes over an hour or so. The staff is lovely there but you are so isolated there and cut off from other U of London locations. She decided upon U of Winchester, formely King Alfreds Winchester and is excited as can be!!! They are the friendliest and in a safe area with ten minute walk to town and and small high street and close by trains of direct line to London every half hour. Airport close by to other EU countries, Euro train to Paris and close to sea. The area was featured in Da Vinci code movie.

We are taking a ten day trip there for Fresher's Faire and this ended up being a blessing in disguise. It may not be the top prestigious uni, excellent for her degree, Psychology with Ballet and can go onto Cambridge or Oxford for post graduated degree.

I know she will love it there and I feel this was the best choice of all!

Go Wintonians!!!

Ta Ta.

Lisa's Mum :dancing:

Reply 40

PepsiMax3

Oh my god! Lisa's mum are you unhappy with my comments???? I just wondered as you have quoted my posts in your latest posts saying that you cannot believe some of the comments on here.

I cannot believe some of the comments on here either but i thought mine were nice and helpful. I'm sorry if you have taken them the wrong way. Did anyone else think my comments were out of line??? I'll remove them if that is the case.

Reply 41

PepsiMax3

I'm beginning to wonder if the 95% female thing that Lisa's mum is talking about is for the actual course and not the university. If this is the case I would maybe believe it but isn't it true of all universities that more females than male study psychology. Sorry not trying to be sexist or anything.

Reply 42

amie

14

Oh my God. I cannot believe this is still going on.

Royal Holloway >>>>> Winchester.

In fact, most British universities >>>>>> Winchester.

I live about half an hour from Winchester in a town remarkably similar. Trust me, it gets boring if you're 18/19/20. And it's not that close to London. Nor a beach. And Southampton's not all it's cracked up to be (if it's cracked up to be anything at all).

Whatever, I honestly hope she enjoys it but there are so many places she could have gone to that would have been so much better. C'est la vie.

I was taught to tell the truth, regardless of whether it's nice or not. You asked for advice so we've given it truthfully as current UK students. It's just a shame you wouldn't listen, Lisa's loss :frown:

Reply 43

pingu_the_penguin

Lisa's Mum

There are loads of international students going to U of Winchester, in fact Lisa is there for orientation next week, one day for US students and the other for all the EU students. Look at the comment I posted about all the research from guides we purchased and Lisa is not interested in going on a SR as obviously there are some rude mindless chat line geeks on the other end! Smart girl! I am not on here, my research is finished and have had some wonderful conversations with those that continue to PM me, but all of you need to be much nicer and didn't your mother ever tell you "if you don't have something nice to day, don't say it" as you come across as being rather brash, for lack of a better word. Get a life!

Excuse me, but if the reason you are calling people 'geeks' is because they use this site than that applies equally to you. Look, people are giving advise and all you do is be rude to them. perhaps it is you who needs to get a life. And when 'lisa' goes to winchester and has nothing to do due to the boring area and everyone else is out enjoying themselves in good areas, who will be the geek then?

stop coming on this site you creep me out.

Reply 44

mermania

16

PepsiMax3

I'm beginning to wonder if the 95% female thing that Lisa's mum is talking about is for the actual course and not the university. If this is the case I would maybe believe it but isn't it true of all universities that more females than male study psychology. Sorry not trying to be sexist or anything.

true! And, of course.....ballet.

Reply 45

shady lane

16

She's a TROLL

Reply 46

HannahZ

4

Very few people on TSR are deliberately rude. But they are honest and truthful in their opinions. Just because their comments conflict with your decisions, do not take it as rudeness. They are actually trying to be helpful by offering the truth as they see it. Most people would like to see Lisa have the best university experience possible. If Winchester is the answer to what she wants, then we all hope she will be very happy there. Not many UK students would make the same decision but then maybe that's why they have so many overseas students.

Reply 47

Kew

16

Lisa's Mum

The guardian, 2007, just read; mainly girls and gay guys, in black and white and statistics in one of other two mentioned books, Lisa is used to gay guys with ballet all her life, not a problem, just thinks Winchester is a nicer area and gorgeous gray stone Grade 2 listed buildings. Award winning performing arts and even the student village area. Excellent for social sciences in addition and the friendliest people. As far as travel, she plans to work part time and will go to Paris and other countries while there.

It's black and white that your statistics about Royal Holloway are downright incorrect. How many times do I have to say, in no way whatsoever is the male/female ratio 5/95%! Did you even bother to read the post I made earlier about RHUL? Practically everything you've said on this thread about RHUL has been wrong.

Incidently, I'd be very surprised if the Guardian provided any kind of statistics (let alone accurate ones) about the sexual orientation of RHUL students. Can you point me to any evidence backing up your claim?

Royal Holloway is better than Winchester in every respect academically. It has a far superior Psychology department, for a start.

Reply 48

PepsiMax3

I'm pretty sure from what i read in the Sunday times uni guide that social sciences are new courses to Winchester sp how can they be rated excellent. I could be wrong though but its late and I can't be bothered to look anymore, especially as everything seems to be falling on deaf ears. :frown:

Reply 49

PepsiMax3

Saying that i couldn't be bothered, i'm back, lol.

Just looking at league tables for psychology

Guardian:
Royal Holloway - 8th
Winchester - 80th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Times - they only show top 20 for psychology

1 Cambridge
2 Oxford
3 Univ Coll London
4 Bristol
5 St Andrews
6 Nottingham
7 Bath
8 York
9 Cardiff
10 Durham
11 Newcastle
12 Royal Holloway
13 Sheffield
14 Exeter
15 Warwick
16 Surrey
17 Southampton
18= Sussex
18= Glasgow
20 Reading

If Lisa seriously wants to be a pychologist and has the grades to get into any of these i seriously would.

I've looked at dance too in the times (I take it ballet comes under that). No mention of Winchester but Royal Holloway is 3rd!!!!!!!!!

1 Warwick
2 Bristol
3 Royal Holloway
4 Glasgow
5 Surrey
6 Lancaster
7 East Anglia
8 Kent
9 Bournemouth
10 Manchester
11 Loughborough
12 Goldsmiths Coll
13 Essex
14 Birmingham
15= UWIC, Cardiff
15= Exeter
17 Queen Marg Coll
18 Queens, Belfast
19 Reading
20 Nottingham Trent

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Royal Holloway and Winchester

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