University of York

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Does anyone have DC there or been there recently? Just wondering what it is like. DD has an offer for this year and was put off by reading the StudentCrowd reviews which mostly talked about the number of ducks and boring students!

This may help your DD OP.
nouse.co.uk/2019/09/25/yusu-bars-a-brief-tour-of-yorks-hottest-campus-bars

[quote Benjispruce4]This may help your DD OP.
nouse.co.uk/2019/09/25/yusu-bars-a-brief-tour-of-yorks-hottest-campus-bars[/quote]
Thanks for this. I will pass it on to DD. She really loves everything about York but still can't make her mind up (distance from home is the burning issue because of anxiety).

Yorks a lovely place and as for distance, it does not really matter too much as most of the time contact is made on facetime. Plus York makes a great place to visit at weekends half way through the term :)

DD is in her final year at York now and has really enjoyed it. The geece outnumber the students, they are told.

DD is definitely a quieter student, and doesn't really choose to go out socialising much, but it didn't stop her flatmates doing that when they wanted to. She is hoping to stay on and do her Masters.

Got a similar dilemma. My DS is just finishing post-grad there: having felt his undergrad experience was chopped into by Covid, he wasn’t ready to leave.

DD now has an offer there but feels it’s a long way from home and would be less ‘her’ place because her big brother has kind of claimed it already.

Royal Holloway is her other firm option - again not a huge party place. Nearer, but a bit less of an exciting course.

I want to tell her it doesn’t matter really. The transition to more independence, and the making of new friends, and the working out who you are - they’ll all happen wherever, but it is such a huge decision for them to make.

York is seen as more prestigious than RH though. She shouldn’t care about where her brother is. RH is quiet because lots go home at weekends. It is, of course, handy for a very big city, but it’s in a leafy suburb so there’s very little to do at all around the university.

@TizerorFizz

York is seen as more prestigious than RH though. She shouldn’t care about where her brother is. RH is quiet because lots go home at weekends. It is, of course, handy for a very big city, but it’s in a leafy suburb so there’s very little to do at all around the university.

But not everyone is completely and utterly obsessed with "prestige".

My DD left York in 2019 and loved her three years there. She sounds very like a PP's daughter; studious, quite quiet but sociable in her own way, not into nightclubs. She had a close knit group of friends there and they still meet up - she also had friends from home (Kent) at Leeds and they used to meet up there too, for nights out. I think it's a lovely place and was happy she chose to be there.

That alls kinda promising. DD is choosing college accommodation at the moms for York. Expensive! DD1 is at Durham and I thought that was high but York is on a par. She’s looking at James, Langwith and Vanbrugh and possibly Derwent.

So many typos. Sounds not kinda! At the moment not moms obviously.

My daughter is also considering York, but it being known for being ‘boring’, or in other words not everything is based around drinking, is one of the advantages.

Selfishly I am hoping she puts York down as her other choice is Aberdeen which really is far away (but the course for her is better so I am biting my tongue)

Dd is at York and loves it. She finds the night life is fine, as plenty of clubs/pubs. She’s never bored and loves how accessible everything is. She was also considering Birmingham but was glad she opted for York. She’d thoroughly recommend it!

I don’t see how a university can be boring. It’s full of young people, close to a really nice city, lots of student bars on campus and load of societies. These labels aren’t helpful as obviously the student body is constantly changing.

When I was there (many years ago) there was fun to be had but only until around 11pm, then you relied on someone hosting in their room

I'm biased. I work at the university. Love it 😊 People always mention the geese because they are a feature.

@Libertybear80 - me too!

Went to an open day. Slipped on a large pile of duck poo, landing flat on my back. Spent the rest of the day walking round covered in said duck poo.
Would not recommend.

@Hoppinggreen same anywhere. The city isn’t far!

@CitrusSunshine
Employment stats often say otherwise. University does matter and plenty of research backs that up.

@vjg13

Amongst my daughter's friends the consensus is that it is one of the more boring ones. She has a friend who is in her first year there but may transfer (not related to it being "boring" though!)

I think that says more about your DDs friends than York uni 🙄

benji dd is at Derwent and loves it

My son graduated from York a couple of years ago and loved it! I believe there's plenty of student nightlife if that's what you're looking for but probably wouldn't call York a party city!

There's a brilliant 1hr 50 minute train service from Kings X, so even though we're in Surrey, the journeys were quite manageable and I really enjoyed combining a visit to see him with seeing the rest of North Yorkshire.

Forgot to mention my son also suffered with anxiety and the pastoral care was superb at York.

All sounds promising.

My DS loved Derwent because it was very sociable on site. He did go into the city a fair bit for clubs, but enjoyed the D-Bar. There is a huge variety of accommodation within Derwent, from the brutalist grey blocks, to more modern house-style units, so worth looking quite carefully at the small print. I think DD may go east campus if she ends up picking York.

Prestige and employability vary hugely by subject, so things are not as straightforward as headline rankings and a PP suggested, and my feeling is that their own gut feel for what is right for them is worth listening to.