oxford colleges for law???

Hello...

I was just wondering, in your own opinion, which is the best college to study law in oxford???

Also which college are you more likely to get en-suite rooms, beacuse i really dont want to be sharing washing facilites with loads of people...Just one of my strange things

Is any one doing law at oxford at the moment, what is it like, good points, bad points etc...

Thank you in advanced for any replies...

Jay

is Merton College reagrded as 'over-working' its law students?

Hello...

I was just wondering, in your own opinion, which is the best college to study law in oxford???

Also which college are you more likely to get en-suite rooms, beacuse i really dont want to be sharing washing facilites with loads of people...Just one of my strange things

Is any one doing law at oxford at the moment, what is it like, good points, bad points etc...

Thank you in advanced for any replies...

Jay

tagzt, what reputation does worcester have?

people from other colleges have this impression of Merton being an "academic hothouse" (particularly a certain individual from St Peters) but to be honest it is what you make it. in terms of actual workload it is no different from the workload at other colleges, the core of the reading lists are set by the university law faculty and the tutors then add on the stuff they think is most relevant...just because your tutor is from Merton does not mean they will add on more stuff than someone from another college.

however what you must realise is that each college has its own "character". at Merton it is perfectly acceptable to sit down at lunch and talk about how much work have to do or just talk about work in general. it's kind of in the atmosphere, people accept work as being the main reason why they came to university and if you tell someone you cant go out tonight because you have too much work, its understood. that does not mean that you have to work incredibly hard, it just means the environment is there for you to work hard, which means people always do well in their exams and hence merton topping the norrington table so often

at other colleges (LMH for example) the character of the college is very much geared towards going out first, then work second. if you were at LMH and told people who had too much work and couldn't go out, they would laugh at you and drag you out! (or so my mate at LMH tells me).

at the end of the day, the college you are at does not define who you are. im not an incredibly hard working person but i have found coming to Merton means i work harder than i would do at say LMH but still go out a fair bit because thats just my personality.

Seems a very fair summary. You might allso add that a college like Merton tends to attracts a higher percentage of people with a strong academic work ethic.So the culture is self sustaining. Interestingly I believe that Merton has had one of the biggest increases in applicants across many subjects over the past couple of years. Rather more than some of the supposed 'fun' colleges. I'm not sure of the significance of this but I'd guess it's one of some very interesting issues and trends buried in the unpublished college admissions stats.

oh yea i forgot to mention that, its very very true. the majority of people who apply to colleges know something about the college beforehand i.e. they might have heard its academic or laid back or good at rugby or publich school dominated. this results in the colleges maintaining these reputations because hard workers will apply to merton/christ church/st johns etc etc and good rugby players might apply to teddy hall etc etc. it would actually be a great system if the university was just more open about it in their prospectus, currently they try and tell the applicants the colleges are more alike than different. this is an absolute load of rubbish, each college has its own character and should be proud of it.