Applicants -- why do you want to study at Cambridge?

the people at cambridge all seem to be decent people.

relative to other unis of course:P

To stalk craghyrax.

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Repost of positives of Cambridge:

1. You meet other students and academics who are really passionate about the same subject as you.
2. You are constantly challenged and kept interested
3. You have a college social environment which gets you socialising with people from all subjects and provides a set of people you are familiar with so that you don't feel lost in the huge university.
4. You get really good at working efficiently - producing quality work to tight deadlines, a skill which will serve you for life.
5. You get lots of individual attention.
6. The teaching is, on the whole, excellent. Most of the departments get top scores or near in assessments and competition for jobs as academics at Oxbridge is such that those who are selected have to be something special.
7. Excellent library resources - Copyright university libraries plus college and departmental libraries. And they will order books for you if they don't already have them.
8. There are very good welfare provisions - you have access to a tutor, college nurse, welfare reps in your JCR, chaplain, free counselling by professionals at the University Counselling Service etc.
9. There's a lot of money available through bursaries of all kinds as well as travel grants, book grants, college prizes if you do well in your exams etc.
10. Your college provides everything you could need in practical terms - meals, cleaning, maintenance, fantastic computer support etc. Everything is designed so that you can get on with your work and social life and don't have to faff with getting the boiler serviced etc.
11. You get a JCR bar which is not a profit-making company so prices are low.
12. Whatever your extra-curricular interests, there will probably be a society or sports team to join or an event to get involved in and there are fantastic opportunities for trying new things and meeting people. Some of these activities can be excellent training grounds for careers e.g. editing a newspaper or getting involved in debating or university acting.
13. There's loads on - every night you could go to a different play/debate/speaker evening/comedy night/concert/party etc.
14. Opportunities to organise / go to college balls - most people are unlikely to get parties this big once they've left Oxbridge.
15. Everywhere is walkable or cyclable - it doesn't take long to get to places, all your friends are nearby and you don't spend loads of time and money on public transport.

Even the awful awful open day three years later didn't deter me, although it was so bad that all other 14 candidates opted for Oxford instead.

Not that I remember. They may have asked the teachers though.

Churchill was the one with the student guide. I can't remember the first college.