Hurry Up

What is WRONG with you? Are you joking? How long they take to get back to you tells you NOTHING about how organised or otherwise they are. They get thousands of applicants, many of whom have identical grades and similar personal statements. If a uni gives you an offer early, it just means you were top of the pile. If it gives you an offer late, you were closer to the bottom. It's not about being organised. Not to mention Durham's two-stage application process, whereby your application has to be approved by the department before being sent to the college and approved there. If the college doesn't have room, you'll have to be sent to another college and see if they want you. Obviously this is going to take longer than most unis' systems. Universities have until the end of March to send out offers, and they are well within their rights to wait until then.

Then again, I don't really think you should come to Durham myself.

Losing my mind.

Applied in October to meet Oxbridge deadline. Hardcore rejection from that. Want to go to Durham. People applying for same course as me (English) who have a weaker application than me (just being honest) have got in. Why haven't i heard yet?

Maybe it's because i applied to a more popular college, Collingwood?? I dunno!

Anyway, just thought id create a thread for others to vent their frustration and describe their situation. Because Durham are sooooo sloooww.

What is WRONG with you? Are you joking? How long they take to get back to you tells you NOTHING about how organised or otherwise they are.......Not to mention Durham's two-stage application process, whereby your application has to be approved by the department before being sent to the college and approved there. If the college doesn't have room, you'll have to be sent to another college and see if they want you. Obviously this is going to take longer than most unis' systems. Universities have until the end of March to send out offers, and they are well within their rights to wait until then.

Of course how long they take says something to do with their organisation. If a univeristy is able to give out offers to all its candidates quickly its allot more likely to be more efficient than one who leaves all its applicants till the end of March. I realise durham have a high amount of applicants per place but I dont think its allot higher than allot of other places and most of them have dealt with the majority of their applicants by now. Durham should should notice they have a large amount of applicants and deal with it accordingly by hiring more staff or looking at applications earlier instead of leaving them untill after the Janaury deadline.
The two stage durham porcess is important and one of the reasons people apply however they shouldn't let it become a disadvantage in their application process.

Of course how long they take says something to do with their organisation. If a univeristy is able to give out offers to all its candidates quickly its allot more likely to be more efficient than one who leaves all its applicants till the end of March. I realise durham have a high amount of applicants per place but I dont think its allot higher than allot of other places and most of them have dealt with the majority of their applicants by now. Durham should should notice they have a large amount of applicants and deal with it accordingly by hiring more staff or looking at applications earlier instead of leaving them untill after the Janaury deadline.
The two stage durham porcess is important and one of the reasons people apply however they shouldn't let it become a disadvantage in their application process.

Of course how long they take says something to do with their organisation. If a univeristy is able to give out offers to all its candidates quickly its allot more likely to be more efficient than one who leaves all its applicants till the end of March. I realise durham have a high amount of applicants per place but I dont think its allot higher than allot of other places and most of them have dealt with the majority of their applicants by now. Durham should should notice they have a large amount of applicants and deal with it accordingly by hiring more staff or looking at applications earlier instead of leaving them untill after the Janaury deadline.
The two stage durham porcess is important and one of the reasons people apply however they shouldn't let it become a disadvantage in their application process.

i swear i'm addicted to ucas now though, they should have some sort of rehab for that.

It's called making a firm acceptance

Of course how long they take says something to do with their organisation. If a univeristy is able to give out offers to all its candidates quickly its allot more likely to be more efficient than one who leaves all its applicants till the end of March. I realise durham have a high amount of applicants per place but I dont think its allot higher than allot of other places and most of them have dealt with the majority of their applicants by now. Durham should should notice they have a large amount of applicants and deal with it accordingly by hiring more staff or looking at applications earlier instead of leaving them untill after the Janaury deadline.
The two stage durham porcess is important and one of the reasons people apply however they shouldn't let it become a disadvantage in their application process.

Of course how long they take says something to do with their organisation. If a univeristy is able to give out offers to all its candidates quickly its allot more likely to be more efficient than one who leaves all its applicants till the end of March. I realise durham have a high amount of applicants per place but I dont think its allot higher than allot of other places and most of them have dealt with the majority of their applicants by now. Durham should should notice they have a large amount of applicants and deal with it accordingly by hiring more staff or looking at applications earlier instead of leaving them untill after the Janaury deadline.
The two stage durham porcess is important and one of the reasons people apply however they shouldn't let it become a disadvantage in their application process.

I actually agree. My impression of Durham is that they are slightly disorganized compared to other unis. Ofcourse this impression is only based on my personal experience and the experience some of my friends had, and may not apply to the uni as a whole..However,I had a lot of trouble with my application.
First I found that I had left out some information about which courses I wanted to study within natsci, so I sent them a mail about it,explained what i wanted to study and asked if everything was ok now. I got no reply, but some days later I got a mail where they asked me to give them the information I had sent.. well, so I sent it again(yes, to the right email address again) and asked if they could please confirm that they got it.
They didnt. so I called them. They wrote down the information and told me that everything was sorted! two days later I got a mail AGAIN asking me to send them the information if I was a serious applicant.. so I had to call again and send an email etc.
some days later I was rejected..I asked them politely for some feedback. and can you believe it? The person asked me what subjects i wanted to study within natsci!!! he said that info was missing I gave it to him and he said he would get back to me.
He did get back to me and said there had been a mistake, and that I had an offer after all well ofcourse I was pleased..but then the trouble with the college came up.. My information was sent to two colleges, and my track kept changing between the two..so i contacted one of them asking if there was a problem, and a nice lady said that my name did not exist in the UNIVERSITY database at all! Was I really an applicant?
Ok, long story.

But my point is, current students at Durham, please stop attacking people who dare mention that durham may be a bit disorganized, in some cases it could be true..

I guess I should mention that everything is sorted now and i have an offer and I like Durham and I think it will be my firm! so no hard feelings

But my point is, current students at Durham, please stop attacking people who dare mention that durham may be a bit disorganized, in some cases it could be true..

EDIT: cabeca - no, it's fine, really. We've all been there and lemme tell you: as someone who risked reapplying to Durham because they wouldn't let me defer and I wanted a gap year, and then they didn't give me an offer till late Feb when they'd given me one in November the first year, I know what it is to stress about such things. [And obsession with UCAS is perfectly normal.]