Caius college

Sorry to jump in on this forum with my first post - it's getting to crunch time with picking my college (going for a choral scholarship).
I'm keen on the idea of going to Gonville and Caius', but am just slightly concerned by what I read in The Times Good University Guide:
The college has something of a Home Counties or public school reputation especially for its 'It' girls, society high-fliers.
Being a male from a state school in Yorkshire, am I likely to find it hard to fit in? Do people at the college tend to lead very lavish lifestyles?

Thanks for any advice.

Sorry to jump in on this forum with my first post - it's getting to crunch time with picking my college (going for a choral scholarship).
I'm keen on the idea of going to Gonville and Caius', but am just slightly concerned by what I read in The Times Good University Guide:
The college has something of a Home Counties or public school reputation especially for its 'It' girls, society high-fliers.
Being a male from a state school in Yorkshire, am I likely to find it hard to fit in? Do people at the college tend to lead very lavish lifestyles?

Thanks for any advice.

Sorry to jump in on this forum with my first post - it's getting to crunch time with picking my college (going for a choral scholarship).
I'm keen on the idea of going to Gonville and Caius', but am just slightly concerned by what I read in The Times Good University Guide:
The college has something of a Home Counties or public school reputation especially for its 'It' girls, society high-fliers.
Being a male from a state school in Yorkshire, am I likely to find it hard to fit in? Do people at the college tend to lead very lavish lifestyles?

Thanks for any advice.

Sorry to jump in on this forum with my first post - it's getting to crunch time with picking my college (going for a choral scholarship).
I'm keen on the idea of going to Gonville and Caius', but am just slightly concerned by what I read in The Times Good University Guide:
The college has something of a Home Counties or public school reputation especially for its 'It' girls, society high-fliers.
Being a male from a state school in Yorkshire, am I likely to find it hard to fit in? Do people at the college tend to lead very lavish lifestyles?

Thanks for any advice.

Sorry to jump in on this forum with my first post - it's getting to crunch time with picking my college (going for a choral scholarship).
I'm keen on the idea of going to Gonville and Caius', but am just slightly concerned by what I read in The Times Good University Guide:
The college has something of a Home Counties or public school reputation especially for its 'It' girls, society high-fliers.
Being a male from a state school in Yorkshire, am I likely to find it hard to fit in? Do people at the college tend to lead very lavish lifestyles?

Thanks for any advice.

great college, wouldn't go anywhere else. people are really nice, nobody really bothers whether you were from a state or a public school - to be honest, i think most of my friends are public school or internationals (never bothered asking, and they certainly don't behave like the stereotype), but nobody cares, we all mix and have fun.

there are some people that fit the description, but they generally tend to gravitate towards each other and leave the rest alone, so the rest of the 90% of the college can get on with socializing. 'sides, with 160 a year, or thereabouts, there's more than enough people for you to find your niche.

(also, in my limited personal experience, these people are also not really that bad, they are just more comfortable with others of their "own kind". if you bother to reach out and befriend them, most of them are actually really nice people, if somewhat odd-behaving and sounding )

oh, and lavish lifestyles is up to you - but many of us are running near subsistence level, some slightly below and depending on the good graces of bank overdraft officials. so don't worry about being labelled a miser...

oh, and one of the more sociable and popular girls in my year happens to have been state schooled and proud of the fact, so, nope, state schooling doesn't matter. AT ALL. personality does (she's sociable, duh).

final thing - does your insertion of the word "male" have any significance?


P.S. - i'm a huge proponent of following your "gut feelings" when choosing colleges: if you like it, it's probably right for you. so go for it, and don't let other dissuade you.

I thought you went to Caius

And if the bowling place is near Homerton, you'd be just as well going to London Jk

Sorry foolfarian

Wouldn't you like to be an "It" boy then AIRP? Besides there are also societies and your course for socialising

Nah - foolfarian was at Corpus.

Some of my friends made a trip to the bowling alley, only to find it was closed. They weren't best pleased. I might make it down there when I get back though, nothing better to do in my first week apart from a couple of PfP visits (J, is PfP B any better than the first?)

You know you're obsessed with Cambridge once you start giving advice to potential applicants before you've even applied yourself!

Lets face it, pfp is a wank concept. Some unis do the whole integrated clinical experience, whereas cambridge does this stupid token effort which isn't at all useful, and is totally crap. And no, it doesn't get better. PfPB is nearly on par with PfpA (tho about 10x more depressing), pfpC is as bad (depending on what you choose) and pfpD is the only half useful one, and can be good (in my case where i had a lovely 30 year old teacher) or wank (in the case of people who had 16 year old scrubber).
ne'er mind ey
J

I know; nearly everyone got more patient contact in their work experience before coming there than in those measly two GP visits. I had to go on my home visit on my own because they had to find me an extra slot thanks to missing the first with glandular fever, got to walk out on my own into the middle of the delightful council estates to find this old man's house. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, but 2 sessions over a whole year is hardly a life-changing experience. At least with the visits at the start of term I can get my essay written before Freshers' week (I hope) as I'll have nothing better to do, what with nobody being around.

What did you see for your B & C?

Lets face it, pfp is a wank concept. Some unis do the whole integrated clinical experience, whereas cambridge does this stupid token effort which isn't at all useful, and is totally crap. And no, it doesn't get better. PfPB is nearly on par with PfpA (tho about 10x more depressing), pfpC is as bad (depending on what you choose) and pfpD is the only half useful one, and can be good (in my case where i had a lovely 30 year old teacher) or wank (in the case of people who had 16 year old scrubber).
ne'er mind ey
J

Please.....'wank' is not to be used in these contexts.

Nonsense; 'wank concept' is one of the best phrases I've heard this week.