Christ's College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

It is possible but those are generally the most expensive rooms and most will probably be taken by scholars. Not many freshers will get one.

I'm not sure exactly how it works for Freshers but from what i can tell, you fill in the rent bands and then you'll randomly be allocated a room based on what you put down. These are the ones which haven't been taken by a scholar. I think some people doing the same subject may sometimes be placed near each other though that could well be coincidence. Most freshers will be near each other in staircases (so we had a lot of freshers in Z, W, Y and New Court but none were in 2nd court or 1st court). Chances are, you'll be in one of those blocks. The room you get will be decent so don't worry

2nd year and 3rd year is different. In 1st year, in Lent term, everyone in the year is placed in a ballot and drawn out randomly. You can ballot with up to 2 others so you'll be drawn out together if you do that. Then you go down the list and pick rooms, with groups of 10 - 20 being allowed to pick on certain days (so for example, 30th Jan - 2nd February, People 1 - 20 pick. Then 3rd February - 7th February, people 21 - 32 would pick). The very last group don't get given rooms till August. The college picks out the available rooms: at least half the year will have to live in College houses in 2nd year but all 3rd years live in college. However, as it's a scholars' ballot, anyone who gets a 1st may pick a scholars' room and that's why the last group don't find out until August. The ballot's reversed for 3rd year (so the person at the top originally has to take the last room in 3rd year)

Haha, I don't have a place just yet! I'm trying to work out which college to apply to, and currently Christ's and Emmanuel are at the top of my list.

Thank you very much!

Oh, lol, in that case sorry for what must be an overly-complicated answer Can i take this oppurtunity to recommend Christ's anyway? Everyone else is far less into over-explaining than me

!!! Is it true that the matriculation offer is being phased out, and that only 10 were offered by Christ's this year? Alas, the prospects of such an offer were really driving my efforts to work this holiday, ridiculous as that may be...

!!! Is it true that the matriculation offer is being phased out, and that only 10 were offered by Christ's this year? Alas, the prospects of such an offer were really driving my efforts to work this holiday, ridiculous as that may be...

Even then, making the offer is easy enough, getting it is the hard bit.

That's what everyone on the Internet says, and it does seem like everyone who gets an offer already has one foot in the door. But when I told my Career's adviser what my offer was she more or less advised me to view Cambridge as a far-away dream and expect to go to my second choice XD.

I'd view it as something you can take a shot at, and that's it. One of the reasons I think I got my offer was that I horribly screwed up my first interview and was thus calmer during the next two, as in the intervening period I'd already come to terms with the fact that I wasn't going to be getting in, so I might as well relax and enjoy the other two interviews.

Good luck!

Another thing is the personal statement - from my experience the best thing to do is to focus on the subject, not how you're a member of the sixth form committee or what you've done outside your studies etc (unless its related to the course in question). Yes add 1 or 2 lines at the end how you enjoy sport and/or music, but be careful not to go on. Also its important not to come across as big-headed or arrogant in your personal statement.

Hope this helps