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Source: The Reporter Special Issue: Student Numbers 07-08 Queens' Application Statistics See College applications and admissions statistics Queens' Application Statistics per subject See Appplication Statistics 54% of Queens' acceptances in 2007 and 56% in 2006 were from state school students (source). LocationThe Porters' Lodge is on Silver Street, though there are two other entrances on Queens' Lane. The river (with people punting) runs through college: the famous Mathematical Bridge connects the older part of the college, closer to the town centre and informally referred to as 'The Dark Side', to its newer buildings. The college is tucked out of the way of the busy King's Parade (the street which at some point is shared by many of the colleges) but still very central and a brilliant location for arts students particularly. We're opposite the Anchor pub and Nadia's cake shop on Silver Street.
(All distances measured on gmaps pedometer) College MapAccommodationQueens' provides accommodation for three years of your undergraduate degree. The big advantage with Queens' is that you'll probably get to live on site for all three years - a lot of colleges put you in houses away from the main site after your first year. A great advantage of this on-site accommodation is that it means that Queens' has a very strong sense of community and integration through all three years, and one of the reasons why it is a very social college. If you're doing a four year course you to live out in the final year. The college does own some self-catered accomodation off-site, or you can house-share. First year:
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The Queens' room ballot is random and has no relation to Tripos results. Languages students on their year abroad are placed in the pool with the year below them. Second years are sorted first and given the chance to choose their third-year rooms, then first years have the pick of the rest. (The first-year ballot is slightly more technical, being effected by sharing preferences, but remains essentially random.) Freshers' rooms are assigned from what is left according to vague preferences listed on some form or other. The nicest rooms in Old Court and Walnut Tree Court are always taken by lucky third years, the rest of whom tend to occupy the Erasmus building or nicer Dockett and Friar's rooms; most people share sets in Fisher for their second year, and the first years end up in Cripps, or the worse rooms of Dockett and Friar's. See the Queens' Accommodation Site which has reviews of many of the individual rooms. Social SpacesLibrary and ComputingQueens' boasts that it has the only free laser printer in Cambridge. You have to provide your own paper. The library, housed in the old chapel, is a wonderful place to work. English and MML collections are particualrly strong. Three or four dead fellows are still buried in the crypt. The alarm goes off all the time though, and the clock strikes for five minutes solid at 5.35pm on Sundays, which makes the whole building shake as well as being extremely loud. Academic PerformanceQueens' ranking in the Tompkins Table (which ranks colleges by their Tripos exam results): 16th (2008), 11th (2007), 14th (2006), 8th (2005), 8th (2004), 5th (2003), 5th (2002), 5th (2001), 5th (2000). SportRugby Pretty good, they got to the final of (but I can't remember if they won or not) the second tear of cuppers (I think it's called the plate) They generally seem a nice bunch and they go on tour and stuff, and they're nice to their girls which is nice. (written July 2009) AtmosphereConsidering its size Queens' does have an amazingly close community. OK, it's nothing compared to the (frankly quite scary) close-knitness that places like Corpus achieve, but in a way I'm quite glad of that. There's always a person who you want to get to know better, and enough people that you can avoid the people you don't want to know. Facilities
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