Bristol University Accommodation Info (please post all questions here!)

Oh I had an unconditional offer as i'm on a gap year so that might be why? Don't worry i'm sure you'll get one :]

Yep, they even give you a form about the first drama production of the year to send back if you want to get involved. Exciting stuff!

Yeah it's because he's overseas, I know an overseas student who had an offer from durdham and didn't meet her offer...so she won't be going. I think it's to garuntee places for overseas students, which is a bit silly in some cases because a person from the highlands would find it just as hard to not have anywhere to stay in bristol as someone paying overseas fees(or northern ireland, or one of the small islands...)

But then again you have to consider that it is likely anyone paying £12,000 a year to the university is considered someone for whom their preferences are a priority. Plus they ad to the 'global community balance' in halls.

I'm hoping that seen as I am a 'technically' state schooled welsh drama student with a disability that there won't be many of us and i'll get into richmond on the 'diversity' policy

May I ask how did she meet her offer ?

Have you got an accommodation offer yet? Where do you want to end up?

I got it 4 days ago via email then they sent me a pack to with an acceptance form to fill in.

Yeah, of course I do a-levels, however as I'm an overseas student, I may get a bigger chance of receiving an accomodation otherwise I have no place to live .

Don't worry, your accomodation issue date will be on 31st August, I think you will be hearing from them soon !

hehe insainet! Dont worry im sure youll be fine. As for the rest of you wonderful people worrying about halls i have done some calculations and have worked out it cant actually go too badly at all! From looking at which halls were oversubscribed i figured out which ones those unlucky enough to miss out on their preferences will be left with as possibilities: uni hall (which as already discussed is actually orite), elmgrove park (also quite lovely i found some images on flikr and it seems nice) northwell house (like a small hall spacious rooms good location relatively modern) or queens road which has been refurbished this summer (and if rt is anything to go by bristol dont cut corners when refurbishing) its also opposite the su which is pretty awesome! For catered its churchill or hb and neither are too bad. I think a few people (like me) were worried theyd be stuck in somewhere like woodland road which certainly isnt most peoples cups of tea, but thats on the oversubscribed list anyways so you wont be there unless you want to be. All this has perked me up a bit so i thought id share. Sorry about the paragraph im on my phone and cant figure out the key to start a new paragraph.

Applied to Wills and Hiatt Baker.

As long as I don't have to live in my own home (it's 25 miles from the uni) I don't care!

How come you're in Nottingham then - or are you staying with people before you go to uni?

Or am I taking everything far too literally ?

I'm 181 miles according to Google Maps. Gotta have that buffer zone or else I'd go insane.

I've been staying here for 2 years to study A-levels :s. Unfortunately the university still want my qualification to prove them how potential my English is

I wish I were you

The only way I would have gone elsewhere is if it were Oxbridge or Ivy league, or I had a girlfriend going to another (good) uni. I'm not rich enough to say no to Bristol's bursaries!

Yeah how come Bristol gives bursaries to locals? Southampton does the same, and I've never been able to understand the reason for it. Probably very good reason though, and it's certainly nice!

It's to do with widening participation. Basically lots of students (supposedly) don't go to university because they are poor and scared off by the debt. As a result of this the government urged the universities to supply bursaries to poor local students (or at least I believe they did) and all this money appeared. The drawback is that normall students have to stay at home if they get it due to pressure on uni accom - luckily for me I get to stay in halls because although I live in a BS postcode - I don't live in the Bristol area.

Oh how I love my postcode!

I hate your postcode... damn you!!
I don't qualify for bursaries.
Or much student loan, at all. I get the bare minimum.
Yet my mum and stepdad (yeah, stepdad, no money from real dad) can't afford to put anything towards me going to Uni.
ARGH it winds me up! This government is so corrupt But that's another argument

The, erm, enter key?

I received an email from Manor Hall & Sinclair House yesterday saying I have a place. I have to fill out a reply form and write about myself so they know where to put me/who to put me with. Fingers crossed I get a room in Manor!

Goldney don't ask you to do that.... argh! I'm wondering if I would prefer Manor now

I'd rather be put with who I'd get on with than just lumped in a flat with any randoms... *sigh*

I regret my choice, ahhhhhhhhh.......

hehe insainet! Dont worry im sure youll be fine.

As for the rest of you wonderful people worrying about halls i have done some calculations and have worked out by process of elimination that it cant actually go too badly at all!

From looking at which halls were oversubscribed i figured out which ones those unlucky enough to miss out on their preferences will be left with as possibilities:
uni hall which as already discussed is actually orite
elmgrove park also quite lovely i found some images on flikr and it seems nice
northwell house like a small hall spacious rooms good location relatively modern
115 Queens road which has been refurbished this summer (and if rt is anything to go by bristol dont cut corners when refurbishing) its also opposite the su which is pretty awesome!

For catered its churchill or hb and neither are too bad.

I think a few people (like me) were worried theyd be stuck in somewhere like woodland road which certainly isnt most peoples cups of tea, but thats on the oversubscribed list anyways so you wont be there unless you want to be.

All this has perked me up a bit so i thought id share