Unpopular Colleges?

my school (private) has a fund together with the other schools in the "group" that you can apply to for help with travelling to interviews etc if you are from a low income family.

a return coach ticket from bristol to cambridge with no spcial offers but a student card is about £20 - everyone is different - but if it had been £20 between me and maybe my cambridge place and i only absolutely had my own resources, no parents, nothing at all, im pretty sure Ic ould have made £20 - especially given the time you have from considering applying to cambridge to (possibly) having a pool interview. I know every penny helps when your family is really struggling but im pretty sure that in at least 6 months it wouldnt be completely and utterly impossible to scrape together twenty quid.

if it helps, king's told me there had been over 50 places for the 10ish places to read english this year. but they would only tell me this after i had replied, which wasn't terribly useful... is this an unusually large number of applicants for a course at a college or not?

What are your criteria for colleges? Big/small? Rich/poor? etc...

I don't really know, not too large or sporty. I don't really mind about rich/poor. I quite like the idea of an oldish college.

Which rules out New Hall, Homerton, Fitzwilliam, Churchill and Robinson at least

I don't really know, not too large or sporty. I don't really mind about rich/poor. I quite like the idea of an oldish college.

Naelse what college are you going to? I'm going to John's. How much Greek do you know? I could personal tutor you hehe.

I'll be going to Newnham..

I went to summer school last year to start off the greek, but i've forgotten most of it! lol I remember the alphabet, and i can still decline the nouns and pronouns. Verbs are a blurthough... I have the reading greek books, and I was planning to start going through it after exams. Thanks for your offer! I'll be bothering you with problems soon, no doubt!

To be honest I also cannot remember alot of what I learnt and I only did it to AS level. I'm banking on the fact that it will come back to me when I can be bothered to learn stuff again...I hope. This was most apparent last week when watching some trashy American program, a fraternity was called Theta Delta Zeta but it was only in 'TH D Z' form on their shirts. For the life of me I couldn't remember what Z was called. I obviously knew it was the Greek Z but had a complete mental block and couldn't remember for the life of me what it was called. God did I feel stupid when I found out. It brought home that I was actually going to have to do some work over the summer

I'll be working my socks off all summer too... are you going to bryanston?

You sound like a Clare/Emma person

This is assuming that Trinity tutors make efforts to help you get out of the pool. I understand Clare really go the extra mile to help applicants they have pooled, but how does Trinity compare?

I've heard that Emmanuel is quite good at getting their unsuccessful applicants pooled. Does anyone know if this is true?

What is st Catz like it isn't too sporty is it I really like the look of Clare too though.

You sound like a Clare/Emma person

So are Clare and Emma quite similar? I think I'm going to apply to one of them (assuming of course I get the grades I want in the summer). I really like both - Clare is lovely, and I like that it's on the river, but Emmanuel is gorgeous too. This is probably a stupid way to pick colleges, but there are som few important differences between them.