The Big 'Which Cambridge College?' Thread

Go to Queen's because that's where all the cool people apply.

The really cool people know where the apostrophe goes.

Anyway, I loved Clare and it's generally pretty good for NatSci. Queens' is a fairly fun college as well though, and both are very good from the social point of view.

that's = that is

*Queens'

Aaaahright. Didn't spot the mistake

Fwiw, as a member of a graduate college many people would struggle to name amongst the university suspects, I walk across the bridge of sighs every day on my way to the department.

It's perfectly possible to live vicariously. Just get in.

Pardon me, but this is well-established nonsense. TSR threads have exhaustively noted that none of the colleges is 'less picky' - some just have fewer high-calibre candidates applying in the first place, so they have to take, by the same admissions criteria, from the pool. It's why there is a pool.

Also, what exactly is meant by 'less established'? Fair enough, Homerton is a newbie, but Girton? So 1869 is somehow less established than who, Churchill (1958)? Fitzwilliam (1966)? Robinson (1977)? Sorry to pick holes, but if you want to sell yourself as helping people to get into oxbridge, you want to make sure your information is good.

Thanks for your comment. You're perfectly free to say what you think and so am I, isn't that the why forums exist anyway, to encourage debate?
Your reference to the fact that fewer high-calibre candidates apply to some colleges does mean that they are in fact less picky - they have less students to choose from which means less competition. It's going to be easier to stand out because there are fewer candidates from which the admissions tutor is going to have to discriminate between.

And by less established I meant by reputation in the public mind not by date. And hey, I'm just trying to help people out, just like you, so no need to be overly critical.

The ones I'm considering are:

Cat A: Trinity or St John's (I really can't pick between the two)

Cat B: Jesus, Corpus Christi, Gonville and Caius, Peterhouse, Jesus, Sidney Sussex (basically because they all seem very old and traditional).

You put down Jesus twice. That's a sign.

Also - please don't laugh - I have a serious question; I attend a tiny Scottish state school with no Oxbridge tradition at all, so I don't know who else to ask: how is Clare pronounced? Like 'Claire' or like 'Claar'? Because goodness, THAT would make a bad impression at interview if I ever got that far . . .

It's pronounced like "Claire"

(You probably could get through your interviews without mentioning the name of the college actually but that's a side-point )

Thank you very, very much!

(I probably could, but it'd be a bit frightening) I do have quite a tendency to pronounce things wrong, I didn't want this to be an extra risk.