Choosing an Oxford College

Mansfield is a good choice. It has 2 new blocks (1 almost brand new) with titchy rooms but en-suite, these blocks have the most rooms so you are likely to get put in there for your 1st year, although there are a couple of other small old blocks which have one bathroom between two but large rooms, and there is one crap old block with a few small rooms that only have sinks and have a high ratio of rooms to bathrooms - but you would be very unlucky in statistical terms to wind up there! Its a small college, I doubt many of the other bigger colleges especially the old ones would give you a better chance of having an en suite. :smile:

Reply 461

coldfish

12

The other alternative is to just get over sharing a bathroom, which would allow you to choose colleges based on other criteria...
Basically, the newer the better with regard to en suite.

Reply 462

pendragon

13

Mansfield is an attractive college as well though, it has a nice lawn and the main buildings look quite old (I think it looks much older than LMH, the 1st girls college, even though they were built around the same time) - have a look.

Reply 463

Gnoes

How am I suppose to choose a college if I am not planning to do an open application? Seniors (or anyone), how did you choose your college? I'm planning to read Economics in Cambridge, have a few colleges in my mind , but still couldnt tell which to choose as I'm not really clear about what are offered by the colleges. I'm afraid my reasons for choosing a particular college will turn out to sound silly when I am asked to justify my reasons during interview. Advice, please?

Reply 464

parkerpen

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85158

If you try googling or searchin tsr you would be able to know that they don't care why you choose a particular college and are unlikely to ask about it at interview and that the colleges are more the same than they are different

Reply 465

Gnoes

parkerpen

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85158

If you try googling or searchin tsr you would be able to know that they don't care why you choose a particular college and are unlikely to ask about it at interview and that the colleges are more the same than they are different

Hey. Thanks for helping. Which college are you in? How is it like to be there? I would like to hear more from current students as I'm afraid I cant visit to the colleges and have a look at them..

Reply 466

NickkO

Oh, I know what you feel like; being from abroad (I'm from the Netherlands, though that's quite a bit closer to the UK than Malaysia :eek:

), applying to a university you might never have seen in real life before (maybe once). I read the entire Cam website to satisfy my curiousity, and forums like this one really do help of giving you an image of the university and the colleges. Though many people, as well as the university itself, strongly recommend that you visit the place at least once before applying. I am doing so myself the 5th and 6th of July.

Reply 467

Chewwy

17

why would they care about your reasons for choosing a particular college?

Reply 468

parkerpen

There are a large number of threads on the colleges. Its worth rreading those as it will give you the information you need rather than it being repeated here. I chose my college without ever visiting cambridge, your position is hardly unique so dont worry

Reply 469

ukebert

13

They are not actually allowed to ask "why this college", because they would then discriminate against open applications.

Look at the individual college prospecti, and the alternative ones. Look at the websites of all of them as well. Browse the community pages, see whats going on there. Look on wikipedia, or the TSR wiki. If possible, go and stroll round on an open day.

Reply 470

Phil.Murray

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ukebert

Look at the individual college prospecti

Isn't it prospectuses? :p:

Reply 471

Posh Portia Kabine

phil_m88

Isn't it prospectuses? :p:

Heh, yeah... People in this forum that put "i" on the end of the plural version, you'd think they were like clever or something? :biggrin:

Reply 472

ukebert

13

Sorry

It comes from the latin 'prospectus', whose plural is (I assume) prospecti. However, as with many latin words like stadium (technically plural is stadia) the plural has been anglicised, and I believe accepted by the dictionary makers.

Actually I'm fairly sure that one of the typical "add an i to it" words you don't add an i to, cause it is some case or other that I never got to in Latin.

Or something like that :p: