The Big 'Which Cambridge College?' Thread

Much as I hate to jump on the which college bandwagon, I'm going to!

I want to study Law, and am really not sure which college to apply to. Having looked through the prospectus/alternative prospectus, I decided I quite liked the look of Magdalene, Caius, Jesus and Sidney. Any opinions on these colleges for law, or recommendation for any other colleges?

Whyyyy though, where did it come from?
Heh I applied for natural sciences

Well I'm reading Law at Magd. so I'm biased..
But the first major difference between those colleges is size. Magdalene and Sidney are both on the smaller side in terms of undergraduates [~340], and Caius and Jesus are bigger [400+]. Do you have any preferences about that?

Law is very good all over, I suppose it depends on what you're after and where you think your interests may lie..?

Sports rivalries, academic rivalries, silly old events, the members of college maybe and 'old boy' rivalries (back in very different times when access schemes were probably not such a big thing) then it just kept on getting passed down and stuck I guess.

NatSci ey? Should really have applied for maths! good luck with your application nonetheless

I would have thought your last question should be answered by you and not other people.

Have you had a look at the Tompkins table, it's by all accounts as useful for making decisions like this as all other league tables are, but you might find some use for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_Table

I fancied applying to St John's (cambridge) for maths but have been told by countless people it is relatively anti-state school, is this true?

I fancied applying to St John's (cambridge) for maths but have been told by countless people it is relatively anti-state school, is this true?

Don't worry about stereotypes. Only St Johns' stereotype is true: you are much better at Oxford then Johns

Sign on, sign on, with hope in your hearts
But you'll never be at John's

You'll never be at John's

The fact that St John's has stolen my club's beloved anthem to fuel its rivalry with the rest of the University only makes me hate them even more .

There's very little difference, as said. However, I applied to Trinity and ended up at Queens' (after the summer pool - I narrowly missed my offer, despite getting AAAA), and was pleasantly surprised to find that Queens' had a couple niceties for their computer scientists. (e.g. A sort of talk/dinner series thing.)

how did you narrowly miss your offer? did you have to get a in all modules?

I took the Scottish exam system. My offer was approximately equivalent to AAA (explicitly excluding the computing grade) with two of those at 90% or above, plus a STEP grade. I had a panic attack during my maths exam and so substantially underperformed there.

I then did atrociously in STEP (although I'm not as convinced that counts as underperformance).