I've namechanged for this so I can be completely candid without having it all linked to my usual name, but you might recognise some of the details and that's fine :)
DD has offers from Bristol and Newcastle to do MFL - French, Spanish and German. She's doing French and Spanish A levels, predicted A* in both (just got great marks in her mocks), and German will be ab initio.
She's gone through the details of many courses at many universities, and likes the (almost identical) structure of the courses at B and N. She wants to be in a city, not an out of town campus. Newcastle is at least 4 times as far away as Bristol - Bristol is "pop home for an afternoon if you need to", Newcastle is either a very expensive or very slow journey. Newcastle is a lot cheaper to live in.
Bristol offer is AAB, Newcastle offer is ABB, going to unconditional if she firms them. Plus they will give her 1K if she hits her original offer and 2K if she gets AAA (which she is very much planning to!). Looks like there are about 250 people in each year across the range of MFLs at Bristol, about 130 at Newcastle. Newcastle have possibly a wider range of university links for the year abroad.
Bristol has a certain reputation that Newcastle doesn't seem to - when she talks to people about her choice, the general reaction is "oh well, Bristol then". But in fact looking at league tables and the REF, Newcastle actually beats Bristol in most respects.
Her heart says Newcastle - she really liked it there. But she liked Bristol too (more than she expected to given how strongly she had felt about Newcastle!) and she is wondering whether her head should be saying Bristol, mostly based on that reputation, I think!
Any further insight to help break the stalemate would be gratefully received
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BristolvsNewcastle · 12/02/2016 21:37
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