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

Can you tell me where this online form is? Bristol accomodation office website just says they will be sending it out in May.

I like the idea of the personal statement - think it's a good idea for sticking people with similar interests together and the likes

Yeah. It still says there'll be "general questions", which I assume will be about interests and anything else that will help them place you.

talespirit, does that mean you had a personal statement on the international application?

Pft, I do find it quite frustrating that they've clearly created the application process (because they've already sent links etc to international applicants) but they won't let me apply despite being shortly out of the country for 4 months.

Yeah. It still says there'll be "general questions", which I assume will be about interests and anything else that will help them place you.

talespirit, does that mean you had a personal statement on the international application?

Pft, I do find it quite frustrating that they've clearly created the application process (because they've already sent links etc to international applicants) but they won't let me apply despite being shortly out of the country for 4 months.

Can anyboy tell me if there is a particular hall with a high concentration of international students? I think I am going to put Goldney as first choice, and the Hawthorns as second. Whilst I know a fair bit about Goldney, can anybody tell me anything about the Hawthorns? Cheers

Can anyboy tell me if there is a particular hall with a high concentration of international students? I think I am going to put Goldney as first choice, and the Hawthorns as second. Whilst I know a fair bit about Goldney, can anybody tell me anything about the Hawthorns? Cheers

Because a lot of international students (obviously not all) aren't great at English and prefer to be around people who speak the same language/have similar interests. Without trying to generalise, they can be quite antisocial.

It's easily the best located accommodation right in the centre of the campus, not sure how uniforms the rooms are in size but some of them are meant to be absolutely huge. Your experience there shouldn't differ greatly from that at Goldney except for the obvious lack of grounds. Don't know a huge amount about the place though..

Statistically only 16% of the students are international (don't forget many will be post grad)...there can only be so many in a hall.....

So? That's over 1500 of the student population, or about 4-500 freshers.

say around 2000 in the 17,000 population of the whole uni...i'm sure there will be plenty of home students around for you to socialize with. Evenso, i doubt the accomodation wardens would put them all together...also Internationals are not from the same country and aside from US and Chinese population which is about 100-200....the rest are no more than 60 of a nationality at any one time in the 17,000 population....

Actually, at my school the Koreans/Japanese students prefer to hang out with the chinese even though they don't speak the same language.

It doesn't bother me, but to the person who it did bother, I would think they tend to pick en-suite accomadation (from what other university forums seem to say), so if you really don't want to be somewhere with a higher-than-normal proportion of international students don't pick en-suite.

As talespirit said, there will always be plenty of English students arround, and not all international students will ignore you!

Hi, I've read through this thread, the alt prospectus and the uni website and seriously having trouble with accomodation. I really want to live in a Hall, with an actual hall layout for social means, but the only self caterd hall seems to be manor, of which is expensive and is single sex corridors. I don't like the idea of living in flats such as in Uni Hall and the Student residences. Any reccomendations on a socialable self catered, cheapish hall would be much appreciated. Thanks x

Only the corridoors are single sex because they share bathrooms! I don't think I would want toilet seats being left constantly up, or having boys spying on me in the shower lol..

Is that the reasons they're single sex? Surely that can't be right. I mean, a lot of the halls offer shared bathrooms and I thought the majority of them had mixed corridors/flats. (Plus, I doubt you could have boys spying on you in the shower, assuming the showers have locks of some sort...although having said that, one of the unis I visited did just seem to offer a shower pretty much open to whoever walked in to the bathroom area...dear god, please say it's not like that?)