Peterhouse -The real deal?

I'd be quite interested to know what the real deal with Peterhouse is. Here are some questions I have and I'd like to hear the truth about the college rather than the myths.

1)One hears of its tag as the 'gay college' but is it in reality more than anywhere else at Cambridge?
2)It comes towards the bottom of the Tomkins table but is that really an issue when it comes to its reputation?
3)Do people automatically assume that if you are at Peterhouse then you must have been pooled there like they often do with the girls' colleges?
4) How rich is the college?
5) Does it excell at anything ie like Catz is the best sports college etc?
6) Is it snobby or excessively right-wing. By excessively I mean the breeding ground for the Young Conservatives
7) What is the accomodation like?
8) Is it a party college?

Thanks!!

I'd be quite interested to know what the real deal with Peterhouse is. Here are some questions I have and I'd like to hear the truth about the college rather than the myths.

8) Is it a party college?

Thanks!!

1)One hears of its tag as the 'gay college' but is it in reality more than anywhere else at Cambridge? Not really sure - apparently the first Fresher couple to materialise was gay, but I don't think there's necessarily a higher proportion of gay people than anywhere else. It's rumours about the fellows mainly...
2)It comes towards the bottom of the Tomkins table but is that really an issue when it comes to its reputation? If you want a college that's academically fantastic, then it's not the one, but nobody automatically looks down on it for that, whereas they do for e.g. Christ's (where we all know they're all workaholics )
3)Do people automatically assume that if you are at Peterhouse then you must have been pooled there like they often do with the girls' colleges? No
4) How rich is the college? Not sure; it's a lot smaller than any of the others but I don't think it's cripplingly in debt or anything
5) Does it excell at anything ie like Catz is the best sports college etc? Not that I'm aware of. And I think John's would have something to say about Catz being best at sport
6) Is it snobby or excessively right-wing. By excessively I mean the breeding ground for the Young Conservatives The people I know there aren't snobby at all. Apparently there are quite a lot of rather right wing senior fellows, and there could be in the students as well, but the medics I know (and random others I've met) seem normal enough
7) What is the accomodation like? No idea - haven't actually been there, but I haven't heard too many huge complaints
8) Is it a party college? Ummm, from what I gather, not really. The bar was apparently pretty dead at the start of the year, but one of my friends organised a "first year social committee" or something like that, to make the Freshers come out of their rooms and do something. It think that livened it up a bit, and they certainly sound like they have fun, but that may be somewhat patchy

Note, I'm not at Peterhouse, I haven't actually been there (although I'm hopefully going to formal next week), I'm just friends with their medics, and we do practicals together and talk lots. So all this is 2nd hand information and isn't guaranteed to be true. However, the people I know there seem happy enough, are hungover a lot of the time and are generally alright people. I'm happy at Clare, but I'm sure I wouldn't kill myself if I was there.

1) Its called the gay college because alot of the fellows are gay (fact) and i think there are quite a few people who famously came out there. As for now I'm none to sure.

5) Catz is certainly the best college for sport. LLet's face it, as far as Johns goes the onus is on throwing enough people at a sport to try and win. And failing.

Probably true, but being from Clare (also crap at sport) I don't care about college sports that much.

I'd be quite interested to know what the real deal with Peterhouse is. Here are some questions I have and I'd like to hear the truth about the college rather than the myths.

When I asked by undergrad thesis supervisor for advice about college selection (he was at Emma himself), his one-word summary of Peterhouse was 'creepy, especially at nights' (I know this is four words). It probably wasn't a particularly considered opinion, but it bears repeating, I suppose.

Has anyone read Porterhouse blue or any of the other Thomas Sharpe books? Apparantely Porterhouse is meant to be based on Peterhouse.

Peterhouse is the best bloody college there, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!!

Apparently (don't quote me on this) people think it's Peterhouse cos of the obvious similarity in the names. However, Sharpe was actually at Pembroke, so it's likely that's the main basis of it.

Lola, Peterhouse's gay reputation is worse than the reality. If you like the place, go there.

heres knowledge for you - porterhouse blue was written by the Corpus Head porter.
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That sounds rather terrifying. Is it 'creepy' because of the age of the college or as an earlier poster put it the 'being gangraped by a bunch of old tories' aspect of it. Anyway I'm a girl so thankfully that probably wont apply to me. You people have really put me off going to Peterhouse. Thanks a bunch!