St John's College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

Yes. Every postgraduate at John's has access to £500 to use for conference travel, books, research, or whatever you wish. All you need to do is fill out a form, have your supervisor sign it, return it to the Finance Office and they will reimburse you your expenses up to £500. I think this amount may actually be more for PhD students, or is renewed each year.

Thanks for your reply. It's good to hear that John's give some sort of financial help for conferences.
Do you know if John's provides on-site accommodation for postgrads? Also, do you have any idea about the rooms at Corfield Court? I've tried searching online but couldn't find info and pictures of the rooms there.

Some photos of the Corfield Court rooms. The room photographed belongs to a friend of mine, and the other photo is a view from another room in Corfield.

Thanks so much for the pictures! It looks so nice. Actually I'm still waiting to hear about college placement. I hope I can get St John's. Fingers crossed. Can you choose what type of accommodation you want?

I got an offer for MML starting 2014 in the post this morning!!! ^_^

How are the facilities (gym, cafe, etc) at Corfield Court? Will the cleaners come and clean our rooms?

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Can somebody advise on which rooms are available to freshers? Is it still mainly un-renovated Cripps staircases and North Court? Also, how much can one expect to pay in rent for the different rooms? Are the small N Court rooms significantly cheaper?

I can't remember the figures off the top of my head, but if you're a offer holder for this year they sent us a March update with info about room availability, cost and selection recently. It basically said "none of this will happen for a few months yet" so I promptly forgot about it.

Can somebody advise on which rooms are available to freshers? Is it still mainly un-renovated Cripps staircases and North Court? Also, how much can one expect to pay in rent for the different rooms? Are the small N Court rooms significantly cheaper?

The refurbished staircases G/H and from next year F/E are available to freshers in Cripps. Next year staircases A-D are being refurbished so no go there. Cripps rooms cost between £1200-£1350 a term.

You also get the choice of rooms in Chapel Court and North Court, which are usually sets shared with one other person (you have your own room but share a kitchen and bathroom). These cost between £800-£1100. They are nicely furnished and warm, and better value than the Cripps rooms. However your setmate could be a complete dick, or worse a mathmo so choose wisely.

I'd personally advise going for Cripps rooms, and they have just been refurbished, are very nice indeed with awesome communal kitchen areas.
They are also closer to the backs, the gym, the squash courts and music practice rooms etc. On the other hand New Court/ Chapel court are close to the town and the supermarket. There are very few social benefits either way so don't worry about that.

If you're really unlucky and end up at the bottom of the (random) ballot you might have to live in a house outside of college, but this has it positives as well.

Thanks for the post. I'll have a better idea nearer the time but right now I like the idea of a room in a set, as you don't have to share facilities with as many people. Just out of interest, what's so bad about mathmos?

The stereotype is they don't get out much. Or like loud noise. Or undertake normal social interaction with other humans. Think Howard from Fresh Meat.

thankyou. How do i contact the offer holders?

I see.

Are any of the rooms for freshers in Cripps ensuites or even sets? Also, hypothetically speaking, if I were to come first in the ballot, what would be the absolute best room I could pick in College?


Try here maybe? https://www.facebook.com/groups/213596392058311/

I think they're renovating cripps, the tour guide said on the open day, so by the time current year 12s go, they should all be ensuite (that's what I understood anyway)


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Ah, thanks for the info. After STEP I'm not hopeful about going to Cambridge, but hopefully if I do the rooms will indeed be nice.

Also if the tour guide said that for year 12s, then that means the current year 13s will probably either be staying in the refurbished parts or elsewhere.

What course are you applying for? I wanna apply to engineering and I didn take FM so I might have to do STEP ;( even tho my school offers FM ... I'm such an idiot.

Was STEP really hard? How did u revise and for how long?


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