Only International students getting Durham offers

This doesn't make any difference whatsoever as to how likely you are to receive an offer. Unis don't run out of offers to make and give everyone equal consideration up until the Jan deadline.
Unis sometimes process different fee status students at different times. Maybe they started with the low scoring Home students and the high scoring Overseas ones. Again, this is just a matter of what order things are being looked at and does not impact how you will be assessed. Even 30 offers would be a miniscule sample for Durham, maybe they all got processed yesterday and half of them ran to Reddit and the Home decisions will start en masse shortly? International students are not snapping up all the places. That isn't how offer making works.

Hi, im Predicted: A*A*A*A* (A-levels), and got 999999999 in gcses , and go to a relatively underperforming state school.
I’ve been looking on reddit at ⁣the 2025 Durham offer holders post (as they are posting that they are getting offers coming through from Durham now) Out of the 8-15 people who’ve posted that they’ve got offers (mostly Law, some Philosophy/Theology and Physics), I went through and literally looked on every comment on each offer post, and at least one person asks-- “home or international?” under every single one. 0 home offers. All international. Singapore, Hong Kong, China, UAE, EU, one American. All of them international fees.
And before anyone says “small sample size”, it’s consistent across multiple threads now. Even the people who don’t reply to the comment have “Location: Singapore” in their profile.
The absolute shock for me, and i dont want to sound like im being weird and overreacting: i saw an international girl post yesterday that she got an unconditional for Law with a 22 LNAT. TWENTY-TWO. That’s like bottom 10–15% for Durham. Home students are being told 28+ is the “safe” score this year and people with 30-32 are still getting rejected. I am not applying for Law but still worried for the people who are.
Can someone honest-to-God explain to me how this isn’t blatant yield protection / money grabbing? Durham’s international tuition is what, £45k+ a year for Law now? They’re clearing £100k+ extra per international student over three years compared to home fees.
I’m not xenophobic, I’m just broke and British and feel like the university is laughing at us. Is this actually a thing now or am I having the world’s most paranoid meltdown? Because if it’s real I’m genuinely considering withdrawing my application and saving the inevitable rejection trauma. Anyone else (home student) still waiting with good stats and starting to feel like a joke?

u completely avoided the common bias. How on earth does one get accepted into durham with a 22 lnat. Concerning to say the least.

Hi, im Predicted: A*A*A*A* (A-levels), and got 999999999 in gcses , and go to a relatively underperforming state school.
I’ve been looking on reddit at ⁣the 2025 Durham offer holders post (as they are posting that they are getting offers coming through from Durham now) Out of the 8-15 people who’ve posted that they’ve got offers (mostly Law, some Philosophy/Theology and Physics), I went through and literally looked on every comment on each offer post, and at least one person asks-- “home or international?” under every single one. 0 home offers. All international. Singapore, Hong Kong, China, UAE, EU, one American. All of them international fees.
And before anyone says “small sample size”, it’s consistent across multiple threads now. Even the people who don’t reply to the comment have “Location: Singapore” in their profile.
The absolute shock for me, and i dont want to sound like im being weird and overreacting: i saw an international girl post yesterday that she got an unconditional for Law with a 22 LNAT. TWENTY-TWO. That’s like bottom 10–15% for Durham. Home students are being told 28+ is the “safe” score this year and people with 30-32 are still getting rejected. I am not applying for Law but still worried for the people who are.
Can someone honest-to-God explain to me how this isn’t blatant yield protection / money grabbing? Durham’s international tuition is what, £45k+ a year for Law now? They’re clearing £100k+ extra per international student over three years compared to home fees.
I’m not xenophobic, I’m just broke and British and feel like the university is laughing at us. Is this actually a thing now or am I having the world’s most paranoid meltdown? Because if it’s real I’m genuinely considering withdrawing my application and saving the inevitable rejection trauma. Anyone else (home student) still waiting with good stats and starting to feel like a joke?

Im not sure how useful this is, but I received an offer today for engineering and I'm a home student

Hi, im Predicted: A*A*A*A* (A-levels), and got 999999999 in gcses , and go to a relatively underperforming state school.
I’ve been looking on reddit at ⁣the 2025 Durham offer holders post (as they are posting that they are getting offers coming through from Durham now) Out of the 8-15 people who’ve posted that they’ve got offers (mostly Law, some Philosophy/Theology and Physics), I went through and literally looked on every comment on each offer post, and at least one person asks-- “home or international?” under every single one. 0 home offers. All international. Singapore, Hong Kong, China, UAE, EU, one American. All of them international fees.
And before anyone says “small sample size”, it’s consistent across multiple threads now. Even the people who don’t reply to the comment have “Location: Singapore” in their profile.
The absolute shock for me, and i dont want to sound like im being weird and overreacting: i saw an international girl post yesterday that she got an unconditional for Law with a 22 LNAT. TWENTY-TWO. That’s like bottom 10–15% for Durham. Home students are being told 28+ is the “safe” score this year and people with 30-32 are still getting rejected. I am not applying for Law but still worried for the people who are.
Can someone honest-to-God explain to me how this isn’t blatant yield protection / money grabbing? Durham’s international tuition is what, £45k+ a year for Law now? They’re clearing £100k+ extra per international student over three years compared to home fees.
I’m not xenophobic, I’m just broke and British and feel like the university is laughing at us. Is this actually a thing now or am I having the world’s most paranoid meltdown? Because if it’s real I’m genuinely considering withdrawing my application and saving the inevitable rejection trauma. Anyone else (home student) still waiting with good stats and starting to feel like a joke?

Hi, im Predicted: A*A*A*A* (A-levels), and got 999999999 in gcses , and go to a relatively underperforming state school.
I’ve been looking on reddit at ⁣the 2025 Durham offer holders post (as they are posting that they are getting offers coming through from Durham now) Out of the 8-15 people who’ve posted that they’ve got offers (mostly Law, some Philosophy/Theology and Physics), I went through and literally looked on every comment on each offer post, and at least one person asks-- “home or international?” under every single one. 0 home offers. All international. Singapore, Hong Kong, China, UAE, EU, one American. All of them international fees.
And before anyone says “small sample size”, it’s consistent across multiple threads now. Even the people who don’t reply to the comment have “Location: Singapore” in their profile.
The absolute shock for me, and i dont want to sound like im being weird and overreacting: i saw an international girl post yesterday that she got an unconditional for Law with a 22 LNAT. TWENTY-TWO. That’s like bottom 10–15% for Durham. Home students are being told 28+ is the “safe” score this year and people with 30-32 are still getting rejected. I am not applying for Law but still worried for the people who are.
Can someone honest-to-God explain to me how this isn’t blatant yield protection / money grabbing? Durham’s international tuition is what, £45k+ a year for Law now? They’re clearing £100k+ extra per international student over three years compared to home fees.
I’m not xenophobic, I’m just broke and British and feel like the university is laughing at us. Is this actually a thing now or am I having the world’s most paranoid meltdown? Because if it’s real I’m genuinely considering withdrawing my application and saving the inevitable rejection trauma. Anyone else (home student) still waiting with good stats and starting to feel like a joke?