The Big &#x27;Which Cambridge College?&#x27; Thread

Original post by dancingrabbit

Hi! I've narrowed down my choices to 3 colleges, Churchill, St John's and Trinity Hall. I'm a really friendly Irish student who loves dancing and playing volleyball and I want to study Physics if that's at all relevant. Any advice would be very much appreciated!

I can't help you with the best college for Irish dancing and volleyballing physicists - but I've repped you anyway for a great question! :smile:

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Original post by dancingrabbit

Hi! I've narrowed down my choices to 3 colleges, Churchill, St John's and Trinity Hall. I'm a really friendly Irish student who loves dancing and playing volleyball and I want to study Physics if that's at all relevant. Any advice would be very much appreciated!

There's no real difference in 'friendliness' between colleges (all colleges have a mix of all sorts of people, as any any real life environment would have. :wink:

), but John's is a very large college and Trinity Hall is one of the smallest, while Churchill had the highest ratio of Science students, so that's one thing you may need to think about.
Volleyball is not a major sport at Cambridge and there're quite a few colleges that don't have their own volleyball club or don't have their own facility even they have a club. Also, some clubs only exist when they get enough players to form a team. If you want to play for a college team, maybe it'd be better to contact those colleges and ask their VB club exist. There's the university team (Blues) for both men and women, too, so if you want to play for them, a choice of college won't matter. :wink:

No idea about dancing.... :tongue:

. What sort of dancing are you interested? I know several colleges have ballroom dancing society but not sure if any of those three colleges have theirs or if they have a society of another type of dancing. But there's a few university dancing clubs/societies, so I'm sure you can enjoy it with them.

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dancingrabbit

I'm an Irish dancer and I want to stay competing if I can😊 I know there's a university Irish dancing society but I guess I was just wondering is there any particular college that would have a greater percentage of sportspeople is all, or if that in any way makes a difference. Thank you so much!

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Original post by dancingrabbit

I'm an Irish dancer and I want to stay competing if I can😊 I know there's a university Irish dancing society but I guess I was just wondering is there any particular college that would have a greater percentage of sportspeople is all, or if that in any way makes a difference. Thank you so much!

Well, that's quite niche.... :tongue:

I think it'd be better much to assume you'll be involved in the university society for dancing front rather trying to decide a choice of college on that basis. It's actually very nice to join an university club/society as it's a great opportunity to meet and mingle with people from other colleges. :wink:

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Original post by dancingrabbit

I'm an Irish dancer and I want to stay competing if I can😊 I know there's a university Irish dancing society but I guess I was just wondering is there any particular college that would have a greater percentage of sportspeople is all, or if that in any way makes a difference. Thank you so much!

For volleyball at uni level see page 136
http://issuu.com/camunisport/docs/full_yearbook_for_website_2015?e=8212170/13112582

And on 164 you can see Churchill, Tit Hall and John's all have uni-level players.

Also the main site here
http://cuvc.org/about.php

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Original post by jneill

For volleyball at uni level see page 136
http://issuu.com/camunisport/docs/full_yearbook_for_website_2015?e=8212170/13112582

And on 164 you can see Churchill, Tit Hall and John's all have uni-level players.

Also the main site here
http://cuvc.org/about.php

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Just happened to have one Blue in one year doesn't tell you anything about how a college is like in the sport.....

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Original post by vincrows

Just happened to have one Blue in one year doesn't tell you anything about how a college is like in the sport.....

I didn't say it did - it shows show that all 3 colleges she was considering did have VB players at uni level last year. :wink:

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Original post by jneill

I didn't say it did - it shows show that all 3 colleges she was considering did have VB players at uni level last year. :wink:

Not very useful info to choose a college anyway. :wink:

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dancingrabbit

Original post by vincrows

Just happened to have one Blue in one year doesn't tell you anything about how a college is like in the sport.....

Original post by jneill

I didn't say it did - it shows show that all 3 colleges she was considering did have VB players at uni level last year. :wink:

Original post by vincrows

Not very useful info to choose a college anyway. :wink:

I misspoke in my last post, I meant to ask which college was generally more supportive to students who want to continue playing sport at a high level alongside their studies. Thanks for the advice! :smile:

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Original post by dancingrabbit

I misspoke in my last post, I meant to ask which college was generally more supportive to students who want to continue playing sport at a high level alongside their studies. Thanks for the advice! :smile:

Any of them... :smile:

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Ch98

Hi, was wondering if you think christ's has a good atmosphere?

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Ch98

i am between queens', christ's, trinity and clare, what do you recommend (i like sport and not from UK if it may help)

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Original post by Ch98

Hi, was wondering if you think christ's has a good atmosphere?

There isn't any college at Cambridge that doesn't claim they have a great atmosphere. And none of them is lying. :wink:

so, yes, Christ's does have a good atmosphere as any other colleges. :wink:

Original post by Ch98

i am between queens', christ's, trinity and clare, what do you recommend (i like sport and not from UK if it may help)

All of those colleges have strength in some sports one way or another (just as any other medium/large-size colleges). Any sports in particulate you're interested in?
As for 'international student'-things, it's rumoured Trinity has a large number of students from China (esp. Mathmos) as they've been at the top of Tompkins Tables for years, have strong reputation in mathematics and are famous, though not sure if that'd be positive or negative for you. But they do get lots of tourists in the courts as they're very popular with them. (So is Queens to some extent because of its pretty Tudor buildings, but not as much as Trinity)

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