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Hi,
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
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jamierwilliams
Hi,
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Cambridge is better me thinks...Clare college!
I would advise that you decided which of the university's courses suits you best and decide Oxford or Cambridge before you begin choosing a college?
It's just that the actual course at the two institutions are often a lot more different than you would expect. I understand you want to do law, and I have been told the two courses are quite different in terms of the focus (have merely been told mind you)
It's just that the actual course at the two institutions are often a lot more different than you would expect. I understand you want to do law, and I have been told the two courses are quite different in terms of the focus (have merely been told mind you)
Clare Clare Clare Clare! (Again, not that I'm biassed or anything 
)
King's and Churchill have very high proportions of state applicants, I'm not sure what Clare's is but I think it's around average.
Subjectwise, you need to look at the courses offered at the universities as a whole rather than the individual colleges. Most teaching (lectures etc) is done on a uni level, so your college has very little to do with it. You have supervisions in college, and yes, some colleges have a couple legendarily good supervisors in certain areas (e.g. King's medics get the head of the Dissection Room for their Anatomy supervisions), but most of them are good anyway. I know a couple of the lawyers and they seem very happy.
)King's and Churchill have very high proportions of state applicants, I'm not sure what Clare's is but I think it's around average.
Subjectwise, you need to look at the courses offered at the universities as a whole rather than the individual colleges. Most teaching (lectures etc) is done on a uni level, so your college has very little to do with it. You have supervisions in college, and yes, some colleges have a couple legendarily good supervisors in certain areas (e.g. King's medics get the head of the Dissection Room for their Anatomy supervisions), but most of them are good anyway. I know a couple of the lawyers and they seem very happy.
Alex_R
The academic pressure is no greater than elsewhere
That's not what I heard, they were trying to get compscis to switch to physics last year because their marks in physics supervisions were higher than compsci ones.
I have very little in the way of academic pressure from my DoS... in fact... none. Any I have is purely self inflicted.
Alaric.
Alex_R
The typewriter isn't the nicest building but it's friendly and full of first years. Out of all the sixties monstosities it probably has the most idiosynchratic value.
The academic pressure is no greater than elsewhere
The choir's pretty poor
The academic pressure is no greater than elsewhere
The choir's pretty poor
Wtf is idiosyncratic value? (now you can see why I'm not at Christ's!)
That's not what we've heard about the academic pressure, although it could all be rumours of course, but it's fun to believe that you have sleeping bags in the library in exam term
Haven't heard your choir, so I can't comment, but ours is v good
This argument could go on for days. I did actually like Christ's but I had my reasons for not applying there (which I have posted somewhere, on a thread called something like "Nepotism at Oxbridge"). But I wouldn't really want to be anywhere other than Clare now.
why don't you try and talk to the DoS at the different colleges.
Musicboy
Musicboy
I dont know anything about the law courses unfortunately, but i feel i have to put a word in for oxford here! i'm not actually at oxford yet, but hopefully will be next year, obviously if i get the grades...
both Christ Church and st. johns are fab, i have an offer from christ church and i spent a bit of time at st. johns whilst i was in oxford for my interview as a mate applied there... the room i saw at st johns was really nice, and the gardens are gorgeous... christ church is like everyone says, big and impressive. The reputations of the colleges seem to be that st. johns is rich, so you get cheaper rent, book grants etc and that folks there work hard. The christ church reputation seems to be that it is a bit too full of rahs (have you read brideshead revisited??)... but im not too sure about that, im taking that with a pinch of salt. The thing that got me about christ church was all the tourists, but i like tourists (being a crazy one myself).
both Christ Church and st. johns are fab, i have an offer from christ church and i spent a bit of time at st. johns whilst i was in oxford for my interview as a mate applied there... the room i saw at st johns was really nice, and the gardens are gorgeous... christ church is like everyone says, big and impressive. The reputations of the colleges seem to be that st. johns is rich, so you get cheaper rent, book grants etc and that folks there work hard. The christ church reputation seems to be that it is a bit too full of rahs (have you read brideshead revisited??)... but im not too sure about that, im taking that with a pinch of salt. The thing that got me about christ church was all the tourists, but i like tourists (being a crazy one myself).
jamierwilliams
Hi,
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
I have stemmed down to three colleges for law and just can't choose on my own! It's between:
Clare College, Cambridge
St. John's, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
So, what do people think of these colleges. Pros/Cons etc
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
i heard there was 9 places for over 200 applicants for Law at St Johns........you do the maths!
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