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Anyone still waiting to hear from Durham?

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PortusCale · 11/02/2019 11:11

Just wondered if anyone else is waiting to hear from Durham for an offer for 2019 entry?

See that offer holder day bookings are now open and I understand college allocation has begun.

DS still waiting here, DS application went through in November.....does this mean a rejection will likely be on its way?

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SunshineTheMonkey · 03/04/2019 12:52

Just wanted to reassure anyone looking at Exeter, my DS graduates this year after choosing it over Durham and Bristol and has had an absolute ball.

He couldn't have wished to meet a nicer bunch of people and said he's genuinely loved everything about it.

Best of luck to those still waiting/choosing.

MariaNovella · 03/04/2019 12:57

That’s great, Sunshine.

I know a girl who arrived at Exeter with a history of very severe MH problems and has (slowly) got better there.

ZandathePanda · 03/04/2019 13:13

Maria sorry if that was unclear. He killed himself decades later but his mental health was helped by sharing a room in that period of his life.

Has everyone heard from Durham now?

MariaNovella · 03/04/2019 13:18

Oh OK. Makes more sense.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 03/04/2019 13:29

Coleoptera - he may be better off contacting Colleges office rather than Admissions. They are two totally separate teams.

goodbyestranger · 03/04/2019 13:35

Bastards he can't contact a college until he's allocated one unless you mean he rings round every one which I suspect would annoy them hugely at this very busy time.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 03/04/2019 13:45

No, but he can contact Colleges Office which is the central service that deals with ALL college allocations.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 03/04/2019 13:47

www.dur.ac.uk/colleges.se.office/

goodbyestranger · 03/04/2019 14:01

I was assuming that that was the office DT2 rang ie college admissions. I think there's a real risk of pissing them off if you hassle them for no objectively compelling reason.

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ZandathePanda · 03/04/2019 20:22

Coleoptera if your Ds is ok with this, get him to take a few photos on his phone of the universities. Anything that will enable him to discuss stuff with you later and jog his memory. He’s going to be shattered at the weekend!

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goodbyestranger · 03/04/2019 21:48

Yes quite - that's a full on three days. I hope the weather doesn't dampen his spirits.

goodbyestranger · 03/04/2019 21:54

Zanda I asked DS4 to take a few photos of Durham for me for old times' sake when he visited and got a delightful collection featuring commercial rubbish bins, a queue in Greggs, pot holes, an abandoned mattress and a bucket for sick artfully propped horizontally in a student's tilting window.

ZandathePanda · 03/04/2019 22:11

Grin I sent my mum a picture of the reinforced door I was very proud of (not in Durham) as everyone on our street got burgled so much that I decided that, as the room of most resistance, I was less likely to suffer from opportunists. It worked. My mum was horrified. As a mum I can see her point now!!

OKBobble · 03/04/2019 22:12

Goodbye - Grin that's hysterical and the sort of thing my DS3 would do

TapasForTwo · 03/04/2019 22:29

I don't think offer holder days offer the same opportunities to socialise the way Oxbridge interviews do. DD found that most students had parents in tow. Luckily she managed to team up with another girl on her own and they spent the day together, and even went with her for a wander round town afterwards (this wasn't in Durham though, but I imagine that offer holder days are fairly similar at other universities).

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 04/04/2019 07:27

The current ones for Durham aren't the proper offer holders days though, are they? Aren't they just two hour tours? So not really time to get a proper feel for place or people I wouldn't have thought?

MarchingFrogs · 04/04/2019 07:45

No, the ones they are doing this week and the week of the 22nd are for offer holders and based on a particular college, but just 'administratively', so to speak, not specific to that college.

(I've found it easy to get chatting to other people on campus tours, but then, I'm a grown-up, was brought up to speak to people rather than not and find it quite easy to strike up conversation anyway).

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PortusCale · 04/04/2019 08:00

The offer holder day my DD went to in Durham was an overnight stay and there were definitely no parents there. In fact the majority of students who travelled by train were on their own although I’m sure some would have been driven there by parents but they weren’t attending as such.

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Tinseltrauma · 04/04/2019 09:43

Portuscale It was the same for my DS - overnight stay, no parents in sight. He went on the train, loads of socialising, he loved it! A couple of his school friends went up independently with their parents as they didn't fancy the offer holders day, each to their own I suppose.

Bowchicawowow · 04/04/2019 09:44

I have posted on another thread but this one is more active.

Can anyone advise on what to expect from a Cambridge masterclass?

TIA

MariaNovella · 04/04/2019 09:49

A lecture (or two). One of our DCs did a Cambridge masterclass a few years ago. It was nothing spectacular but he’d already attended university lectures at other universities with friends amd family.

Bowchicawowow · 04/04/2019 09:54

Thanks Maria DS hasn't been to any other university lectures before so he may find it a bit more interesting.

MariaNovella · 04/04/2019 10:21

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a good thing to do and I am planning for our next DC to do Cambridge masterclasses.