Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge

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	Lucy Cavendish
	Established:	1965
	University:	University of Cambridge
	Address:	Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge CB3 0BU
	Telephone:	+44 1223 332190
	Website:	http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/
	Student Union/JCR website:	http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/students/student-union.php
	Admittance:	mature female undergraduates and female postgraduates

Undergraduate Student Statistics

• Total Undergraduates in 2007-8 = 104 (0 men + 104 women)
• Total Undergraduates in 2006-7 = 114 (0 men + 114 women)
• Students admitted to their current course in Oct 07: 41 (0 men + 41 women)
• Students admitted to their current course in Oct 06: 39 (0 men + 39 women)

Source: The Reporter Special Issue: Student Numbers 07-08

Lucy Cavendish Application Statistics See College applications and admissions statistics

Lucy Cavendish Application Statistics per subject See Appplication Statistics

100% of Lucy Cavendish acceptances in 2007 and 75% in 2006 were from students with a state school background (source).

Location

Located in the north-west of Cambridge, not far from the Backs, the stretch of the river Cam which runs through the back of a number of the most famous Cambridge colleges. Nearest colleges: St Edmunds, New Hall, Churchill, Fitzwilliam, Girton's Wolfson Court.

• 0.6 miles from the University Library.
• 0.78 miles from the Sidgwick site (Classics, English, MML, Law, History, Theology, Economics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).
• 0.86 miles from the West Cambridge site with the Cavendish physics laboratory and the Computer Laboratory.
• 1.29 miles for the Engineering department on Trumpington Street.
• 1.49 miles from the Chemistry department on Lensfield Road.
• 2.23 miles from the railway station.

(All distances measured on gmaps pedometer)

Women only?

It really is totally different to going to an all girls school, the comparison just isn't there. The women's colleges are only (mostly) single sex in terms of the domestic accommodation ie where you (usually) sleep. All your lectures and free time are completely mixed, societies, clubs, additional lectures etc are all mixed. You function in a mixed world, you just go home to clean bathrooms!

Accommodation

There are six accomodation blocks on-site:

• 2 converted victorian houses called Barrmore (image) and Strathaird House (image)
• 4 new, purpose-built blocks called De Brye (image), Warburton hall (image), Bertram and Oldham Hall (image)

There are also a number of college-owned houses including two on Chesterton Road called Lyttleton Colony.

Social Spaces

Library and Computing

Academic Performance

Lucy Cavendish's ranking in the Tompkins Table (which ranks colleges by their Tripos exam results): 28th (2008), 24th (2007), 26th (2006), 27th (2005), 26th (2004), 26th (2003).

Atmosphere

There is no high table at Lucy Cavendish so students, staff and fellows all eat together.

Facilities

• Canteen and dining hall
• Cafe style student bar and conservatory
• 24/7 Library with some 20,000 books and a photocopier.
• Large common room (Paul Paget Room, Oldham Hall) with wide-screen TV + video, newspapers, vending machines and coffee-making facilities
• A second common room
• Music and meditation pavillion with piano
• Gym with tradmill, exercise bike, rowing machine, cross trainer, weights and multi-gym equipment.
• 2 laundry rooms

Links

• Lucy Cavendish undergraduate prospectus entry
• Look up Lucy Cavendish in the Cam Uni Students' Union Alternative Prospectus
• Lucy Cavendish graduate prospectus entry
• Lucy Cavendish Graduate Union Alternative Prospectus entry
• Lucy Cavendish Wikipedia entry
• Youtube clip - The Bald Soprano Part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7
• Youtube clip - Lucy Cavendish as a conference venue