Christs or Peterhouse for English?

Hi! I’m an A-level student planning to apply for English at Cambridge in December. I do English Literature, Sociology and History (predicted A*A*A*) and an EPQ. I don't go to a private school.
In terms of colleges, I’m stuck between Christ’s and Peterhouse. I’m not too picky, as I figure no matter where I go I'll still be doing the subject I love if I get in, so it's not that big of a deal. From what I can tell, both are about the size I want (not too large), pretty, central and not rated too lowly academically.
Initially I was aiming at Peterhouse- I liked how old it was, the size and my favourite comedian went there. However, I read it has a reputation of being conservative and cliquey, having a private-school feel/student body (the state/private school split is worse than Christ’s) and possibly being a bit of a boys club (though this doesn't seem to be reflected in the statistics) all things I want to avoid.
However, I also heard it has a vibrant queer community, which seems very appealing, especially given queer literature is one of the genres I find most interesting, and would probably touch on this in my personal statement.
Recently, I attended a visit day at Christ’s: I really liked it, as the staff were incredibly friendly and inclusive. I hadn’t considered it before visiting, but now I’m debating applying there instead of Peterhouse- I like the way they describe the English course slightly more on the website (though only marginally), and think I would enjoy their very academic approach. They seemed friendlier than Peterhouse, which I liked.
However, I am concerned that any impressions I made on the taster day will carry through to my application- I am someone who tends to overthink social interactions and although nothing went wrong on the day, Im finding it difficult from stressing that something I said will have in some way affected how they saw me. Is this a completely useless train of thought, or will a possible positive/negative impression on the admissions team affect my application in any way?
Finally, from the practical perspective I find difficult to avoid Peterhouse’s application success rate for applicants is significantly higher- 41% compared to 29% for Christs. Whilst I am aware the pooling system is designed to prevent bias here and Christs does add more applicant to the pool to compensate for this, a part of me thinks that as the English course seems wonderful for both and I like attributes of both colleges that I should take the ‘safer’ option as a more prudent choice and apply to Peterhouse.
My question is, therefore, if anyone has any advice on this or has any personal experience with wither? Additionally, is the English course for either of them known to be distinct or sub-optimal in a way I haven’t mentioned/found out about yet?
I’m aware this might seem like too much detail/thought but I enjoy thinking decisions through to the last detail and often find writing down my worries helps me think them through! I’d love some honest advice if anyone has any to offer.
Thanks so so much for any help and have a lovely day/night!

No knowledge of christs (or english) but my lad is at peterhouse and it seems fine/hes happy. It used to have a right wing reputation (hes not), but cant say hes noticed anything particular and little about being particularly queer or ... A boys club, perhaps a bit, as it only admitted women in the mid eighties - they had a small exhibition in the library last year celebrating it.

Am v familiar with a lot of Cambridge!
First thing is Christ's is a bit bigger than Peterhouse - Christ's admits around 120 per year and Peterhouse c.80, so it's much smaller (the smallest college?). English cohort size is comparable though. Also idk what rep Christ's supposedly has but the last several years at least 75% of it's UK intake are from state schools, which is above the university average. Tbh though don't let that be important - they're not your enemy and will often become friends! Numbers are typical reflective of applications received rather than any kind of bias.
As for taster day genuinely do not worry at all. It's a long time between now and applying to faces/names are easily forgotten in that time and in any case, won't have any bearing on an application - they simply want the best students and if that's you, great! Even more so if it's the admissions team, whilst they process applications they have no say on your being admitted to the college - that's for the academics and admissions tutors.
Lastly, Christ's does really well academically even within the Cambridge context - you'd be well supported certainly! And in terms of 'success' in app rates don't look into it too deeply. Numbers don't mean too much because numbers doesn't equal quality applications... A college could get 50 for 4 places and 40-45 of them could be unrealistic. But you wouldn't be able to tell that purely from seeing 4/50 success! So ye, get your head out of the stats game and think about what feels most like home, where you see yourself being happy.
The only other thing I'd say is the Christ's team often gets good comments here/other forums about support in applying so definitely see how much info/guidance/support each college provides around the application process as it's the admissions team (not the academics) who will be looking after you through it.
Hope this helps )

This was really helpful and reassuring, thanks so much!!

Oh also one last thing on queer: it's Cambridge, and a university, and those two things together make being queer in Cambridge a pretty positive time in my own experience! You might like to get in touch with JCR (college student committee) reps for e.g. LGBTQ+ officers, which they will all have.

Hi! I’m an A-level student planning to apply for English at Cambridge in December. I do English Literature, Sociology and History (predicted A*A*A*) and an EPQ. I don't go to a private school.
In terms of colleges, I’m stuck between Christ’s and Peterhouse. I’m not too picky, as I figure no matter where I go I'll still be doing the subject I love if I get in, so it's not that big of a deal. From what I can tell, both are about the size I want (not too large), pretty, central and not rated too lowly academically.
Initially I was aiming at Peterhouse- I liked how old it was, the size and my favourite comedian went there. However, I read it has a reputation of being conservative and cliquey, having a private-school feel/student body (the state/private school split is worse than Christ’s) and possibly being a bit of a boys club (though this doesn't seem to be reflected in the statistics) all things I want to avoid.
However, I also heard it has a vibrant queer community, which seems very appealing, especially given queer literature is one of the genres I find most interesting, and would probably touch on this in my personal statement.
Recently, I attended a visit day at Christ’s: I really liked it, as the staff were incredibly friendly and inclusive. I hadn’t considered it before visiting, but now I’m debating applying there instead of Peterhouse- I like the way they describe the English course slightly more on the website (though only marginally), and think I would enjoy their very academic approach. They seemed friendlier than Peterhouse, which I liked.
However, I am concerned that any impressions I made on the taster day will carry through to my application- I am someone who tends to overthink social interactions and although nothing went wrong on the day, Im finding it difficult from stressing that something I said will have in some way affected how they saw me. Is this a completely useless train of thought, or will a possible positive/negative impression on the admissions team affect my application in any way?
Finally, from the practical perspective I find difficult to avoid Peterhouse’s application success rate for applicants is significantly higher- 41% compared to 29% for Christs. Whilst I am aware the pooling system is designed to prevent bias here and Christs does add more applicant to the pool to compensate for this, a part of me thinks that as the English course seems wonderful for both and I like attributes of both colleges that I should take the ‘safer’ option as a more prudent choice and apply to Peterhouse.
My question is, therefore, if anyone has any advice on this or has any personal experience with wither? Additionally, is the English course for either of them known to be distinct or sub-optimal in a way I haven’t mentioned/found out about yet?
I’m aware this might seem like too much detail/thought but I enjoy thinking decisions through to the last detail and often find writing down my worries helps me think them through! I’d love some honest advice if anyone has any to offer.
Thanks so so much for any help and have a lovely day/night!