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Cambridge colleges ranked

Internal reputation (rated out of 10)+ Prestige (A-E)
Judged by 5 Cambridge Students from Trinity, Caius, Clare and Magdalene:

Christ's College 8B only parts of college nice
Churchill College 4.5C famous for sciences.... ugly buildings
Clare College 8B (small but pretty)
Clare Hall 1E (where is this college?)
Corpus Christi College 7B (nice.. but ..)
Darwin College 2E (...)
Downing College 7B (quite nice grounds)
Emmanuel College 10B (Academic top)
Fitzwilliam College 1E (far, ugly buildings too....)
Girton College 2D (far, nice buildings tho)
Gonville and Caius College 6.5C (some parts r v.pretty..but some other..)
Homerton College 5B/C (or 10A in education -got nobel prize winner) interesting one.. impression - new, but actually it's been around 4 200 yrs got gothic buildings + towers.
Hughes Hall 1E (not too sure, sorry if harsh)
Jesus College 7.5C (fun college)
King's College 9A (magnificent chapel, but broke)
Lucy Cavendish 1E (not sure)
Magdalene College 7.5B (small, but cute. not grand tho, unlike the oxford magdalene. sorry dan!)
New Hall 1E (womens only..the least popular cam college)
Newnham College 4B (Famous female alumni)
Pembroke College 8A (nice grounds, quite isolated tho..)
Peterhouse 2B (prestige solely because it's the oldest college, otherwise not so good)
Queens' College 8B/A (mathematical bridge, but ugly new buildings)
Robinson College 3D (new, red brick, like a polytechnic)
St Catharine's College 6B/C (cute, sweet college)
St Edmund's College 2E (don't know)
St John's College 8.5A (nice, but always compared to trinity as inferior)
Selwyn College 5C (alright, nothing special)
Sidney Sussex College 7B/C (7 coz opposite sainsbury's)
Trinity College 9A (everyone knows trinity.academic, grand + v.v.rich)
Trinity Hall 6.5B (ppl always think this is a copy of trinity, but it's not)
Wolfson College 1E (mature, invisible)

Any comments? sorry if we've been harsh to any colleges...
-ed, dan, rick, jack & liz

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Reply 1
Well, I wouldn't have put King's or John's that high on internal rep! Aside from that, yeah, I think pretty fair.
Reply 2
Helenia
Well, I wouldn't have put King's or John's that high on internal rep! Aside from that, yeah, I think pretty fair.


:smile: that was a quick reply!
Reply 3
whats wrong with kings apart from that it loves state schools? :cool:
Reply 4
yey! Everyone likes Emma. :smile:
Reply 5
TheWolf
whats wrong with kings apart from that it loves state schools? :cool:


kings is having financial probz at the moment ..
Reply 6
TheWolf
whats wrong with kings apart from that it loves state schools? :cool:


Its rep just isn't that good. Plus it's always full of tourists.
Reply 7
Well, I know this is a little off-topic but I'm going to be in Cambridge on Saturday (staying at Clare, in fact), but I'll only be there for about half day. Is there anything particularly exciting that I just HAVE to see/do while I'm there (bearing in mind that I'm used to medieval cloisters etc)? Any colleges that are especially worth looking at?
Reply 8
but this college looks damn nice :wink:
Reply 9
hildabeast
Well, I know this is a little off-topic but I'm going to be in Cambridge on Saturday (staying at Clare, in fact), but I'll only be there for about half day. Is there anything particularly exciting that I just HAVE to see/do while I'm there (bearing in mind that I'm used to medieval cloisters etc)? Any colleges that are especially worth looking at?


Trinity should be seen just for the sheer size of the place, although no doubt being an Oxonian you'll manage to be somewhat scathing anyway. :wink: Erm, I suppose you should see King's, just so you can say you have, Clare is nice but you'll see that anyway, and apart from that, whatever your friend thinks. Go to the fudge shop though!

TheWolf - King's is pretty, but it's not that special. All the old Cambridge colleges have architecture like that. The chapel is pretty spectacular, but I go past it every day and it has become a bit mundane.
hildabeast
Well, I know this is a little off-topic but I'm going to be in Cambridge on Saturday (staying at Clare, in fact), but I'll only be there for about half day. Is there anything particularly exciting that I just HAVE to see/do while I'm there (bearing in mind that I'm used to medieval cloisters etc)? Any colleges that are especially worth looking at?



Ok, two things to do:

Go to the fudge shop and get some fre samples. I highly recommend it

Meet Helenia if you are staying in her college nd both being first year meds you can compare notes.

There you are, a whole day planned out for you.

Musicboy
Reply 11
musicboy
Ok, two things to do:

Go to the fudge shop and get some fre samples. I highly recommend it

Meet Helenia if you are staying in her college nd both being first year meds you can compare notes.


Hildabeast's not a medic!
Reply 12
Why so much ranking of colleges? The most important thing about a college is almost certainly the people you'll be studying with, and there's no way of knowing about them 'till you get here.
musicboy
Ok, two things to do:

Go to the fudge shop and get some fre samples. I highly recommend it



Agreed and the ice-creams are the best too, or maybe that's just me.
happysunshine
Agreed and the ice-creams are the best too, or maybe that's just me.


Its just you, the best ice cream can be found in a village in the yorkshire dales, cant remember the name of it though. :tongue:
Reply 15
Joey_Johns
Its just you, the best ice cream can be found in a village in the yorkshire dales, cant remember the name of it though. :tongue:


Clearly you have never been to the honey ice cream shop in Tywyn, on the Welsh coast :tongue:
Joey_Johns
Its just you, the best ice cream can be found in a village in the yorkshire dales, cant remember the name of it though. :tongue:


I've heard that too about Yorkshire selling the best icecreams (don't believe it) but the best ice-cream I've ever tasted was from a fudge shop! (I think :tongue:).
Helenia
Hildabeast's not a medic!


sorry thought she was. I don't know why.

MB
Reply 18
The best fudge is from Roly's in Totnes. Icecream? I like my own home-made stuff, but Rocombe Farm (few miles down the road) is delish :smile:
blissy
The best fudge is from Roly's in Totnes. Icecream? I like my own home-made stuff, but Rocombe Farm (few miles down the road) is delish :smile:


yes rocombe farm is good but still doesn't compare to roskilly's (sp?) in cornwall.

MB