St John's College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

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Reply 60

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Is the rent more or less the same price in the 2nd and 3rd years Stevo?

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Reply 61

Ditting Suck

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Mine's a set

Which staircase are you on?

Erm, you're going to have to help me with this chuck. Where is this information?

Stevo: well, including the KFC charge, I will be paying just under £100 w/o books, food, Internet :frown:

£170 is crazy money.

Reply 62

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Mine's on the letter that's three pages stapled together. There are subheadings like "date of arrival, "financial arrangements". It says underneath the accommodation subheading

Reply 63

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Is the rent more or less the same price in the 2nd and 3rd years Stevo?

It depends on the room you choose in the ballot (which is random, not ordered by academic performance). Most second years choose to share, so naturally it works out cheaper. In the third year you basically have your pick of the rooms in college, so you can go cheap or expensive. I'll see if I can dig up the accommodation spreadsheet and post it here.

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Ditting Suck

I've got a lot of stapled bits :confused:

What colour paper, what other stuff is on it? The only stuff I have from Johns specifically that is stapled seeems to be the accomodation invoice, but I can find no mention of the type of room I'm getting.

Reply 65

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Errr it's just white paper with black font. It starts off with

"I am writing to you as your tutor about accommodation and what you will need to do during your first few days here"

Reply 66

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Erm, you're going to have to help me with this chuck. Where is this information?

Stevo: well, including the KFC charge, I will be paying just under £100 w/o books, food, Internet :frown:

£170 is crazy money.

I know it seems expensive, but believe me, it could be a lot worse. For one thing, you should get half your money back for books, up to £150. That's better than you'll find at almost any other college (not sure what Trinity offer). You may even get a subject-specific book grant. And if you manage to get a First this year then you'll be rolling in the money next year. The meals are also pretty damn cheap compared to other colleges (and better as well), with formal hall being only £3.50 for members as well as guests. And they don't make you pay every time you use the washing machines and driers, which apparently I will have to do this year. :frown:

Reply 67

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sTe\/o

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Mine's a set

Which staircase are you on?

They actually tell you that stuff in the welcome pack? They never used to.

Reply 68

Ditting Suck

Ah, lol, got it, it didn't tip out of the envelope with everything else! :smile:

It say's my accomodation (bedsit) will be 870.51 per term, so presumably the extra I'm paying at the start is just to cover them, and will cancel out some of my other costs (food, etc.)? I'm a little less scared now :smile:

Reply 69

Ditting Suck

Oh, and it's F5, Cripps