Cambridge College - Jesus or Downing NatSci (narrowing down)

Hello, I am a prospective natsci applying to Cambridge Natural Sciences (Physical). I'm wondering about the particular pros and cons of Downing and Jesus.

Both are pretty central and have a decent number of people which I like. Not too big, not too small. But I'm still stuck deciding between the two of them. Please help, thanks!

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Donut The Muskie

Original post by anulot

Hello, I am a prospective natsci applying to Cambridge Natural Sciences (Physical). I'm wondering about the particular pros and cons of Downing and Jesus.
Both are pretty central and have a decent number of people which I like. Not too big, not too small. But I'm still stuck deciding between the two of them. Please help, thanks!

I have several people I know who are going downing natsci, or at downing natsci.
Phys natsci: they took in an highly accomplished academic (think olympiads) and someone with heavy contextuals and no further maths this year. Make what you will of that.

Their chem tutor is very into theoretical chemistry, if you are into that stuff, but it does make tutorials quite a bit harder to understand if you do not like chemistry that much.

Downing is huge, when I visited it, I felt like I was visiting another uni entirely. But the food is one of the best in cams and it has the best accommodation for the price, quality and size!