Talk:University of Aberdeen
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[edit] Number of applicants???
"this year" the number of applicants are equal to the number of students at the school? how is that over subscribed? harvard is getting 20,000+ applicants for less then 2,000 spots. and what year is that refering to???
[edit] King's College original name
My source for the assertion that King's College was originally known as St. Mary's College is the University's own "Aberdeen - an ancient university", as published within many editions of the undergraduate prospectus - I have 1994 and 1995 copies to hand for verification. I don't see the claim repeated on their website but have no reason to doubt it. However, I can find no evidence of the first date at which the name King's College was used, and it would be better to have this for the article. Anybody? Kierant 22:40, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Latin names
What's the idea behind adding made-up Latin names to UK universities including this one? The motto is widely used at the university, but the name appears to have been "translated" by somebody filling in such names for various places. This isn't actually wrong, but it seems misleading - what other articles, apart from those on species, carry Latin translations?
[edit] Ancient universities of Scotland
Why has the infobox for the ancient universities of Scotland been deleted? Benson85 20:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually, students were not even authorized to speak anything but Latin in the early years of the University. Hypotyposis 02:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scottish Parliament
In May 2002 the Church of Scotland required its building back from the Parliament during the General Assembly; the Parliament met at King's for the duration. I think that's significant enough to add to this article, perhaps at the end of the first paragraph of the "buildings" section which discusses King's. But I'd like to see others' opinions before adding it. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 15:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 22:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
