University of Cambridge in general Reviews

I have to say I entirely agree with the talk about students having to take everything that comes to them. As students we're supposed to be extremely grateful and happy for the astounding opportunity to study here, and also supposed to think that it's extremely hard. This means college stuff - academic and administrative - get away ...  Read the complete review

I applied to the University of Cambridge this year for admission in 2009. I also endured the dreaded Interview process, and have been to look around a couple of times. I am not studying at the University, and I want to stress that this review is the opinion of a third party, and discusses the superficial aspects to Cambridge, as seen by a ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this from an entirely different angle as I happened to work for the University which probably have different views from some the previous reviews. Having come from working in a completely different sector, I am fortunate enough to get a job with the university due to my relocation. Although the post is more of a junior position, I ...  Read the complete review

I really do believe that there aren't good or bad universities but rather the right or wrong university for you. I loved my MFL course at Newnham (yes, all girls, I know - I've heard every joke) and I wouldn't change it for the world. I had fun, learnt loads, met people, had fantastic experiences and came out with a good degree. But you have to ...  Read the complete review

I've loved my 3 years to date at Cambridge, but opinios are polarised for, as I see it, the following reasons. A number of people do not put enough thought into applying to Oxbridge -- assuming that it is a question of whether or not they are capable, not whether or not it is a place they want to go to. I think this is wrong on two ...  Read the complete review

Having read some of the other reports on my university, I could not resist seizing the chance to scream at the top of my voice "IT'S WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT!" This is a decision I have come to having completed two years on my English BA course. And I think it is quite possibly the right attitude to have. The workload is heavy, ...  Read the complete review

There are two main factors that set Cambridge apart from most other universities -- the college system, and the supervisions (tutorials). When you apply to Cambridge, you must apply to a specific college. Life in Cambridge revolves around the colleges. They provide your home (some colleges offer accomodation for your entire degree), your ...  Read the complete review

I've done a year now at Cambridge as an English student, although you'd better forget that as you read this! I think it's fair to say that judging Cambridge university in general is very hard. Ignore whatever you get told-which college you go to willmake or break your time here. The opportunities are amazing; the student theatre scene ...  Read the complete review

Being a successful applicant to Cambridge, I think it's only fair that I spill a few secrets about the interview process for the benefit of others. I'm not a current undergraduate; my interviews were last December, so I haven't secured my place yet. I'm actually in the middle of the exams that should determine whether or not I make ...  Read the complete review

Cambridge isn't full of the sort of stereo-typed students that people make out. Yes there are people like that around, but you get some at all universities. And yes maybe Cambridge has more than some others, but that doesn't mean you have to socialise with them. There are plenty of 'normal' people there as well. The collegiate ...  Read the complete review

in November 1998 I attended an interview at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. Being the first person from my family to go to uni and a rare Oxbridge applicant from my college I was naturally rather nervous. Indeed I believe this rather than lack of academic ability contributed to my rather inauspicious interview performance. I tried too hard ...  Read the complete review

Cambridge - top of every league table, best funding around, but what is it really like to study there? For me - it was fantastic. I studied Natural Sciences, specialising in Psychology in my third year. This course is the only one in the country with the flexibility for a maths/chemistry/physics 'A' level student to end up doing ...  Read the complete review

Cambridge is a strange place to be at university. If youre deciding whether to apply or take up a place there this can be a difficult decision to make. My recommendation is that you try to see the lifestyle first hand, there are schemes that allow potential students to visit for a few days. Though how true a picture this will give you im ...  Read the complete review

The main thing I thought about Canbridge after about the first term was that it was like nowhere else on earth and it really does take some getting used to. It's no exaggeration that you can walk round the city centre on any night of the week and eventually you'll spot someone in a gown or a bow tie and dinner jacket. After the first ...  Read the complete review

I came up to Cambridge like most of the poor sods there do, having spent all of my years at school being groomed by parents and teachers for Oxbridge. When I finally got my grades and went up after a few years travelling, I think my family and teachers were actually more pleased than I was. Given a second chance, there's no way on ...  Read the complete review

I have to agree with the others that it's not this magical place it's cracked up to be at school. I went to an independent school and was reasonably heavily pressured to apply. It is a good University, but so are most of them. I did Natural Science and was thoroughly offput by the course (mostly due to the fact that it's twice as much ...  Read the complete review

This was one of my first ever dooyoo ops and written when dooyoo was a different place! I'm reviewing (slowly because there are so many!) my old ops, almost all of which were well below the current VU level on dooyoo, and attempting to remedy that! To begin with, a brief explanation of the Cambridge "system". Cambridge, fo ...  Read the complete review