Which College?????????

I would suggest the alternative prospectus, but those figures are out of date now.

Actually, the AP has just been republished (and is now available online) so the stats in there should be correct as of the 03/04 academic year.

I am going to apply to cam this year for med. I was just wondering which sort of college i should be applying as i am adament i will make a closed application after people's advice. I was thinking of Trinity or Kings but only coz they r right in centre of town and are quite large but i know that's a stupid reason. I would preferably like a mixed college and one that accepts a greater percentage of students from state schools.

Please help me make up my mind guys and gals!!!!!!!

Oooh, really? Where? The old one was looking rather out of date.

I am going to apply to cam this year for med. I was just wondering which sort of college i should be applying as i am adament i will make a closed application after people's advice. I was thinking of Trinity or Kings but only coz they r right in centre of town and are quite large but i know that's a stupid reason. I would preferably like a mixed college and one that accepts a greater percentage of students from state schools.

Please help me make up my mind guys and gals!!!!!!!

Hopefully if i get in . I presume you have taken a gap year then?

Yes, I applied for entry in 2005. Regretting that now though...I am extremely jealous of all the people who are buggering off to uni now .

what are you doing in your gap year?

if you want a colege that encourages state school applications, kings would be good. my careers teacher told us all to steer clear of trinity as not only is the applicant: place ratio reeeally bad, there's a lot of private school applicants as well

Adil, Caius college takes the most medics and is also seen as the hardest college to get into for medicine, although I'm not in a position to know whether that is fact or fallacy. It's also very central, although you may have to spend your second year further out, as I understand it.

Oooh, you're back! Hello

Caius is very hard to get into - it has the most places (25) but is über-competitive (as is everywhere, but even more so). A "friend" of mine applied the same year as I did, with similar GCSEs to me and an extra A at AS, and got rejected. He did mess up the MVAT, but I was surprised (not to say disappointed) that he didn't even get pooled.

On the other hand, they do get very good results - but they're not in the everyone-passing-everything club (so far, only Clare and Churchill are )

The weird thing is that Caius often has some of the best medics in the year, if not THE best, but it also has people from the whole spectrum, even people who fail their exams (granted, very few!).

Last year, it was Christs' who had the best results, with 80% firsts (average across the university: 20%). I can never make up my mind about what makes Caius (or Christs last year) medics so successful. Is it better students? Better supervisors? Or maybe a "work, work, work" atmosphere? Am I just thinking about this too much?

Perhaps they've found that arming the supervisors with whips, or handing out food based on performance...is having an effect!? cos, I get the general impression that they work hard!

Hi Helenia! Been back for about a week now, but haven't been frequenting the UKL boards.

Last year, it was Christs' who had the best results, with 80% firsts (average across the university: 20%). I can never make up my mind about what makes Caius (or Christs last year) medics so successful. Is it better students? Better supervisors? Or maybe a "work, work, work" atmosphere? Am I just thinking about this too much?