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Chemistry Research, Durham University
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Does anyone know the chances of getting your first choice accomdation at Cuth's?

I want to be on the Bailey sooo badly!!!!!
Chemistry Research, Durham University
Durham University
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amyalisa
Does anyone know the chances of getting your first choice accomdation at Cuth's?

I want to be on the Bailey sooo badly!!!!!


Id say your chances are fairly good, if not then Parsons Field is still really nice. Ive been over there a few times and its not as remote as I thought before I came, the rooms are really nice too.
THRASHx
Id say your chances are fairly good, if not then Parsons Field is still really nice. Ive been over there a few times and its not as remote as I thought before I came, the rooms are really nice too.



thanks! god i hope i get bailey though starting to wish i picked a different college just so i could be sure of what my accom would be lol! oh well we'll see x
Hiya, I'm sorry if this has already been asked... but couldn't possible read all 143 pages! On my AES it says it is with the department now... (I'm applying for hist) if it says it goes to the college then how do the college decide if they want you or not? Do they get your grades/personal statement too etc? I've applied for university college by the way! Thankss :smile:
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Original post by misostars
Hiya, I'm sorry if this has already been asked... but couldn't possible read all 143 pages! On my AES it says it is with the department now... (I'm applying for hist) if it says it goes to the college then how do the college decide if they want you or not? Do they get your grades/personal statement too etc? I've applied for university college by the way! Thankss :smile:


I have no real insight into the college's selection process, but I'd guess that the biggest factor is balancing the numbers of people to prevent having too many of any single subject. I have no idea if they look at grades or personal statement, but it's quite possible.
hello everyone, I am thinking of applying to Durham for postgrad on Classics, but I would like to know some things about the uni and the city. I've heard it's a relatively small city, but just how small are we talking about? Does it have nice coffee shops (massive coffee adict), sufficient markets etc? As for the uni, my main concern is the libraries. I would like to know if you think they are well equipped. Any other information about the uni would be nice.
Also do you know at which campus is the classics department?
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Original post by Xristina
hello everyone, I am thinking of applying to Durham for postgrad on Classics, but I would like to know some things about the uni and the city. I've heard it's a relatively small city, but just how small are we talking about? Does it have nice coffee shops (massive coffee adict), sufficient markets etc? As for the uni, my main concern is the libraries. I would like to know if you think they are well equipped. Any other information about the uni would be nice.
Also do you know at which campus is the classics department?


Durham is not short of coffee shops, as far as I know. The town centre is full of them.

What is 'sufficient' markets? There is an indoor market open most days, outdoor market weekly I think, and the occasional farmers' market.

The libraries are, as far as I know, well equipped. I don't know much about the classics library, but I've never heard it complained about.

If you want to see Durham city as you would see it, come and visit. Nobody else can tell you what you will think of it.
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Original post by Xristina

Original post by Xristina
hello everyone, I am thinking of applying to Durham for postgrad on Classics, but I would like to know some things about the uni and the city. I've heard it's a relatively small city, but just how small are we talking about? Does it have nice coffee shops (massive coffee adict), sufficient markets etc? As for the uni, my main concern is the libraries. I would like to know if you think they are well equipped. Any other information about the uni would be nice.
Also do you know at which campus is the classics department?


everything that the above post says, plus classics is in Durham city. The department is on the bailey. It has plenty of coffee shops, so you'll be spoilt for choice. There's not a huge amount of shopping to do, but there's a Tesco metro in the market square, and a few shops around, and if you really want a massive shopping splurge you can always head over to Newcastle.
I agree with the advice about coming to visit though. That is the only way you can know what it's really like.
I live in Greece so visiting is not really an option I'm afraid. My main concern is the library. I don't overly mind the shopping, after all that's not why I'm coming. I really like Durham's feel, it seems so nice. My other option is UCL or King's, a London uni basically, and even though I really prefer Durham by the looks of it, as a student of the uni of London I get access to all the libraries and the senate house library which is massive. So I'm abit torn.
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anyone know the chances of sharing a room at Grey College ?


on my coridoor of 24 people there are 3 shared rooms, so 1/4. but i dont know what its like in the other blocks, but thats oswald
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anyone know the chances of sharing a room at Grey College ?


In my corridor there are... i think it's 22 people, and 1 shared room, so about 1/10 (although that's hollingside- it doesn't have many people so there's a smaller chance you'd be living here)
Original post by misostars
Hiya, I'm sorry if this has already been asked... but couldn't possible read all 143 pages! On my AES it says it is with the department now... (I'm applying for hist) if it says it goes to the college then how do the college decide if they want you or not? Do they get your grades/personal statement too etc? I've applied for university college by the way! Thankss :smile:


The first thing to say is that once the department have made their decision, that will be communicated to UCAS and you will discover whether you're getting an offer from the University. If you're successful, the full application, including personal statement, reference, grades etc, will be passed to the College for consideration. The College will use the information available to them to decide to either take you or pass the application to another College. Either way, you should discover which College you're with no more than three weeks after getting your UCAS offer, if you're successful in gettng into Durham that is. Good luck.
Hi, sorry if it's already been asked. Does Collingwood still have a 'homey' feel to the accommodation, though it's so large? Does everybody on the corridor know each other?
For that matter, is Hatfield better in that respect?
A question for mechanical engineering/Mechatronics & Robotics students :
What is the pace of the lectures like?
Does Further Maths put you at a high advantage?
What sort of things do you make in your last year/group projects?
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The first thing to say is that once the department have made their decision, that will be communicated to UCAS and you will discover whether you're getting an offer from the University. If you're successful, the full application, including personal statement, reference, grades etc, will be passed to the College for consideration. The College will use the information available to them to decide to either take you or pass the application to another College. Either way, you should discover which College you're with no more than three weeks after getting your UCAS offer, if you're successful in gettng into Durham that is. Good luck.


Unless this a new thing this year, that's wrong. You don't get your offer through UCAS until both the department has accepted you and you have been fitted into a college. It's however safe to say that if your application has been passed to a college by the department then they have decided to make you an offer which you will then receive a few weeks later.
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Original post by maybeshescrazy
Unless this a new thing this year, that's wrong. You don't get your offer through UCAS until both the department has accepted you and you have been fitted into a college. It's however safe to say that if your application has been passed to a college by the department then they have decided to make you an offer which you will then receive a few weeks later.


It's a new thing this year. You can trust what astro says as fact. He knows about these things.
Impressive. Now I'm just annoyed it didn't start last year.
any politics students care to tell where lectures happen ? Im considering Hilde Bede but then its the opposite side of town from the politics department, but i heard someone saying that most of the politics lectures are in at "riverside" which is much closer to Bide ?

How long would the walk be anyway ? From Bede to Politics dept ? 30 mins ?
You'll probably have most lectures at Elvet Riverside which is around 10 mins from Hild Bede, otherwise you may have some at the science site which is around 20 mins away.
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any politics students care to tell where lectures happen ? Im considering Hilde Bede but then its the opposite side of town from the politics department, but i heard someone saying that most of the politics lectures are in at "riverside" which is much closer to Bide ?

How long would the walk be anyway ? From Bede to Politics dept ? 30 mins ?


what purple-girl said.

Also it's hild bede with no e in Hild, just for reference :smile:

You'll probably have a few tutorials in the Politics dept which is 25-30mins walk, some could be in Elvet Riverside though.
If you go on www.dur.ac.uk/faculty.handbook you can look up the modules you'll be studying.
Each module will say (bottom of the pdf) how many contact hours there are - eg. 1 lecture per week + 2 tutorials a term.

You take 6 modules a year, so if that was the case then you'd be going to Elvet riverside or the science site 6 times a week (note that the lectures could be 9am then 11am so you'd probably stay there in the library or something, so wouldn't be walking there and back 6 times a week!) and then going to Elvet Riverside or Politics dept for seminars twice a week.

Last year the politics students had 3 days off a week (plus weekends)!

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