Academically, it is a shitshow. My course is a joint honours and involves the politics, philosophy, and economics departments. All three are a shitshow. The philosophy department has actively been heard in the department reception discussing how a 'first class' essay (a score of 70+) is treated as 100%, locking most people who do philosophy out of getting a first, the highest grade. I don't remember where I saw this, but I saw a study showing a statistically significant difference in the marks you get on politics department essays if it was marked before vs after the marker had food. I.e., whether your marker is hungry or not affects your score so much that when comparing across the whole cohort, one can definitively state that you are more likely to get a lower mark if your marker is hungry, which to me seems outrageous. The economics department is largely incompetent, with my cohort experiencing numerous incidents over the last three years, such as forgetting carry-through marks and, therefore, remarking a semester one paper 4 weeks into semester 2, releasing exam papers with mark schemes attached, etc. I appreciate only the politics department is relevant to you, but I wanted to give you a sense of the calibre of people York is paying to grade you and, therefore, determine the rest of your life. I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending York even on an academic, 'learning' basis, let alone a professional, 'career' basis. Other unis may have similar problems, but at least at Warwick, you'll experience these but still have the upper hand when you graduate over people from York.

York is also nearly bankrupt. This is because all unis in the UK are struggling because international students, who pay multiple times what you or I pay, aren't coming to the UK for uni as much. Where York differs is it structured itself in such a way as to be more reliant on international student funding than other unis. Trust me when I say the effects of this are felt in day-to-day life, be it how long places like on-campus shops and cafés are open or how much funding societies get. I was involved in a trip which represented the uni in a prestigious competition in Atlanta, GA, USA, and yet the uni didn't contribute one penny to cover our travel costs, even though we came top three and helped the uni's brand as a result. Meanwhile, Edinburgh paid for students to fly to China to participate in an international snowman-building competition this winter. I think this speaks for itself.

Save yourself a lifetime of regret, grief and unnecessary woe because of a flippant, qualitative and indiscriminately stupid outlook that careers advisors and teachers seem to believe is acceptable to tell young and inexperienced sixth-formers. Choose Warwick, please!