St. John's Cambridge, comments

Congrats on your offer! I'm starting ASNC at new Hall this October too! Where are you from? St Johns is a very grand college, with a lovely chapel and the famous Bridge of Sighs, so it's popular with tourists. You should have a great time there.

Thanks, and congratulations to you too.

I'm from Denmark, but I hope you won't hold it against me I didn't really have much to go on when I chose my college, so I "picked" St John's because it seemed to have a nice range of facilities and because it had a member of the department as a fellow.

What made you choose New Hall?

Biggest college, one of the richest too.

Biggest college, one of the richest too.

Lol, yes I've heard about that song but I can't quite make out whether the animosity towards St John's has a rational basis (which would worry me) or whether it is simply that its nice to have someone to pick on (which is fine).

Congrats on getting into john's, its a great college and its supposed reputation is really just an excuse for poking fun at us - its fairly good natured. Were you interviewed for asnac by Dr. Ni-unpronouncable? (maiohnaigh - sp?!?), she's nice but despite her being our tutor (for law) we still don't know how to pronounce her name - don't suppose she told you?

Congrats on getting into john's, its a great college and its supposed reputation is really just an excuse for poking fun at us - its fairly good natured. Were you interviewed for asnac by Dr. Ni-unpronouncable? (maiohnaigh - sp?!?), she's nice but despite her being our tutor (for law) we still don't know how to pronounce her name - don't suppose she told you?

Apparently its on a deficit of 2.4 million, so its rent prices are high and they sting you for other stuff. you should check this out, im sutre you can find out. ultimately though you'll like whichever college you go to! Im sure its very nice there

Semi-rational. St. John's does have a scarily large number of Blues players, and tend to dominate sports events. Or at least they like to think they do. Apparently there is a general perception that John's people, especially the rugby team, are very much up themselves. I'm sure this isn't true for most of the students there, but that's the reputation - most of the colleges have rep of some sorts, and John's is the one we all love to hate!

Emmanuel of course!

(now youve started a debate)

so which colleges do people think best of?

Depends a lot on personal opinion, and of course, what college you're at!

As a combination of factors (location, academia, reputation etc) Clare, Emma and Pembroke are pretty popular. All the colleges have their own good points though, I guess.

PEmbroke and clare? my arse.
As far as the student population as whole goes, Emma is the top college to be at.
J