@PresentingPercy
If the DD isn’t happy she could perhaps transfer elsewhere. Is this an issue with where she lives? Again, one person doesn’t define a university where thousands are happy and stay there after graduating.
Yes of course one person doesn’t define a university where there are thousands of happy students which is exactly what I said in my post previously. She is simply representative of a student who don’t gel with Bristol, of which there are some just are there are some who don’t gel with LSE, Exeter, Durham, York, Cardiff, Bangor, Loughborough , every University.
There isn’t a one size fits all and different places quite obviously suit different people otherwise there wouldn’t be students who drop out of one university after a bit and go on very happily to do the same subject another year in another university very happily. Yes they are a minority and most students will be happy where they are iamoly becausevof the experience they have there.
Too late for the DD in question to switch now really as will be graduating next year and currently she can do a lot from home which has given her a break.
There’s really little need to live where you study unless you wake up late. Plenty of London students would love a 10-15 minute commute. It seems odd to reject a top class university on the misunderstanding about where all the halls are.
London students and what they want aren’t really relevant here though are they? Assumably they would then be perfectly happy doing Stoke Bishop to Clifton bus ride which must be quicker these days as was my trip to school for years and used to take considerably longer than 10 mins , more bus lanes now and not needing to travel peak time as much I guess? And little need to live near where studying skims over those who have a preference to live close to where they study , maybe they feel they will have a lifetime of commuting ahead of them and would like their time as a student to be different ?
There is a wide range of universities and a wide range of different personalities. Delighted that so many students are happy at Bristol but I think if you live in London then you have a daily experience that is very different to someone living where I live and subsequently will potentially react differently looking at different places.. I was really surprised when people were telling me their DC weren’t interested because of the accommodation, but it has happened a fair bit more than once over the years . Just looked back at a recent conversation with the mother of a DC who was is holding an Oxford offer. He wasn’t keen on Bristol as felt the accommodation was ‘sketchy’.
Bristol is a great university where the overwhelming majority of students are extremely happy to the point loads don’t leave the city when they graduate. A minority don’t like it for reasons that are valid for them. I have enough imagination personally to understand that and very much support people making choices that are the right fit them and that what seems odd to some doesn’t to others. I’m not going to mention the costs of private accommodation in Clifton either as I have said what I wanted to and I hope that what I have said will help some who may be read this now and in the future.