Why is King's hated so much on TSR?

Next year, I will go past that and laugh frequently, to feed my own ego.

It kind of looks like a seedy solicitor's office.

Thats what I was thinking. I would say KCL is quite clearly ahead of Nottingham so I don't know why Nottingham students feel they can say anything negative towards KCL :s

I've always thought of KCL as a very good University. Not as strong as UCL but not to far away! Durham is better than KCL but again the difference is minimal. I doubt there is anything in it realistically between KCL/Durham just Durham might have the slight upper hand academically. Durham is an established Top 10 University where KCL is more of a Top 15.

Must of all got rejected!

King's is really underrated academically. I would say that the course I applied for is on a par with similar ones at Oxbridge.

Yeah, I don't know why King's is so hated. It also has a reputation as a bit of a party uni. When my English teacher heard that I was applying, she made a point of telling me that her brother went there and that no one seemed to do much work.

Says the person who officially hates Nottingham. Again the conjecture of 'KCL is quite clearly ahead of Nottingham' which out evidence is utter tripe.

Oh i know one reason Nottingham students can diss Kings - its easy to get into (it has always had very average entry standards). I dont know one person at Nottingham that got rejected by Kings for anything, and i mean everything. Oh here's another - it averagly ranks better. Stop me because i could go on all night and the reaosn why Notts is better than Kings has been done to death by many people.

Trust me every Nottingham student thinks it is better than Kings - if they thought Kings was better then they would have gone there - i doubt all Kings students think the same.

Says the person who officially hates Nottingham. Again the conjecture of 'KCL is quite clearly ahead of Nottingham' which out evidence is utter tripe.

Oh i know one reason Nottingham students can diss Kings - its easy to get into (it has always had very average entry standards). I dont know one person at Nottingham that got rejected by Kings for anything, and i mean everything. Oh here's another - it averagly ranks better. Stop me because i could go on all night and the reaosn why Notts is better than Kings has been done to death by many people.

Trust me every Nottingham student thinks it is better than Kings - if they thought Kings was better then they would have gone there - i doubt all Kings students think the same.

Kings isnt hated, its just that Wollsmoth gave it a bad name by calling it a G6 university and all that malarky. In all honesty, its a solid university, probably around the 13-15 mark in most people opinions. Nevertheless, there are some Kings students on here who like to think it is top ten, when it has averaged a ranking of 15th over the years in all the respective league table. Also, as someone said above, its never been as 'selective' as some other universities that rank just ahead of it, so gets a hit of stick for that, and a few years ago it used to rank a lot worse than it does now (17-20) mark. Still, it is always a good choice as it sounds quite good to the layman on the street, especially for certain subjects

People just find it a bit lame at how it tries to cling on to the coat tales of the G6 universities

What the hell is G6 anyway? I've never heard of that.

It was created last summer by a now banned member (a troll) to descibe the G5 plus KCL. So he spent all of late summer trolling the forums with "G6" talk and how he was going to to study economics at KCL (even though they don't offer it).

Someone who's probably best forgotten and left as a memory. There is a real G6, but that's not really relevant (and refers to colleges, not universities)

Why would he have done that when King's doesn't even have econ?

It was created last summer by a now banned member (a troll) to descibe the G5 plus KCL. So he spent all of late summer trolling the forums with "G6" talk and how he was going to to study economics at KCL (even though they don't offer it).

Someone who's probably best forgotten and left as a memory. There is a real G6, but that's not really relevant (and refers to colleges, not universities)

I don't hate Nottingham at all. You along with Broadsword just paint a very biased and misguided interpretation of Nottingham uni. And have a bad habit of slamming any other university in a 'X VS Nottingham' thread on here with unjustified 'facts' which you make up on the spot. Oh an just for the record Kings is actually slightly more competitive than Nottingham by a very tiny margin(real world they are practically the same).

The entry tariff for Kings is 406, and for Nottingham it is 403 which is identical to Sheffield/Birmingham. I know for subjects like Law Kings is up there with the best of them as well as Nottingham, and has a solid international reputation as a leading University of London college. King's also performed better in the latest RAE exercise, and scored higher teaching scores in the last QAA tests. I can't see any evidence to suggest why Nottingham is better but again they are extremely close.

Way to sell out the 'smoth...pretending like you had no feelings for him!

I wasn't aware KCL was hated on TSR, I thought it was held in high regard actually. Then again does it really matter? We all know it's a great university, so why should someone else's personal opinion change that?

I know. But it's just annoying when it gets compared to Cardiff or Royal Holloway by people from unis that aren't really better than king's.

Both those unis are great too...I don't see why a KCLer should be offended by being compared to RHUL or Cardiff...

Both those unis are great too...I don't see why a KCLer should be offended by being compared to RHUL or Cardiff...