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Top 5 popular/unpopular colleges

In your opinion what are the top five popular colleges and the top 5 unpopular colleges; in terms of undergraduate admissions?

e.g.

Top 5 popular:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

top 5 unpopular:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

sorry for the vague question, I'm just interested to know which colleges are favoured by applicants and which colleges are disfavoured when applying.

thanks to everybody that replies!

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Reply 1

Luxun3

1. Firstly one should not care about what college is popular and what college is not when applying, but about what college he likes best.

2. Regarding getting in or not it does not matter what college you choose, as you will get in if you're good enough....that's what the winter pool is for.

3. If you're only interested in application stats just go to www.cam.ac.uk and have a look at the stats yourself...

Reply 2

rnshan

Top 5 - the ones you like
last 5 - the ones you do not like.
Nothing more to it.

I would like the college that will accept me. :biggrin:

Reply 3

Speedbird2008

The OP is not asking for anything other than the most popular colleges.

Not on the ones he may (not) like...

Reply 4

7589200

1. Trinity
2. Johns
3. Emma
4. Clare
5. Kings

1. Lucy Cavendish
2. New Hall
3. Newnham
4. Wolfson
5. St Edmunds

Reply 5

im so academic

Vazzyb

1. Trinity
2. Johns
3. Emma
4. Clare
5. Kings

1. Lucy Cavendish
2. New Hall
3. Newnham
4. Wolfson
5. St Edmunds

Thank you for your opinion!

Reply 6

Ad-Alta

1, 4 and 5 of the latter are rather pointless seeing as they're mature colleges anyway, and hence the number of people doing a full three year undergrad. are going to be in the single digits :rolleyes:

You might as well add Hughes, Darwin and Clare Hall seeing as the last two are graduate only and therefore no undergraduates can even apply!

Reply 7

im so academic

Can anyone give me the top 5 popular/unpopular colleges that accept undergraduates?

Reply 8

rnshan

I was expecting this :smile:

Reply 9

cleverer_than_you

1. Girton
2. Churchill
3. Girton again
4. Balliol
5. Jordan

1. St Johns
2. St Eds
3. St Catz
4. St Pancras
5. Santa Claus

Reply 10

Jigglypuff

I would say...

Trinity, Johns, King's, Clare, Emma.

Girton, Homerton, Fitzwilliam, Churchill, New Hall/Murray Edwards

Reply 11

7589200

Yah I think its pretty obviously
Trinity, Johns, King's, Clare, Emma.

then if we went on...

Caius, Christs :smile:

But remember that things vary for different subjects...For example Medicine,

Johns have some of the worst records in the first year... (at least this year) - 2 firsts from about 18 people :|

Reply 12

llys

Depends on the subject I guess. Trinity seems to be very popular but says (on its website) that its undersubscribed for English, Law, Archeology and Anthropology, etc..

Reply 13

epitome

Groan.

Oh, and Ad-Alta means "1, 4 & 5" -- New Hall/Murray Edwards is NOT a mature students' only college. :smile:

Reply 14

Ad-Alta

epitome

Oh, and Ad-Alta means "1, 4 & 5" -- New Hall/Murray Edwards is NOT a mature students' only college. :smile:

Oops yes, my bad.
Edited. :smile:

Reply 15

im so academic

llys

Depends on the subject I guess. Trinity seems to be very popular but says (on its website) that its undersubscribed for English, Law, Archeology and Anthropology, etc..

OK, top 5 popular/unpopular colleges for economics?

Reply 16

Scipio90

http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/statistics/

Judging by the amount of time you have to make pointless threads, you'll have time to go through all that to get the information you want.

Reply 17

7589200

don't worry im so academic, ignore him, ive made loads of threads like this in the past - it all helps

i even remember making a 'best medical school in london' post in the medical school section... now, most of the students on there either love their london medical school so much theyd never admit anything else was better or believe that the whole concept of a 'best' medical school doesn't exist...(which is insane...but so many medical students preach this endlessly for some unknown reason).

Reply 18

bazzasballs

I'd say...

Most Popular
1. Trinity
2. John's
3. Kings
4. Clare
5. Emma

Unpopular [excluding Grad colleges]
1. New Hall
2. Girton
3. Newnham
4. Homerton
5. Robinson

Reply 19