Choosing a College

Apr 18, 2025•41 min

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Episode description

Stay tuned to hear Marcus and Siam explain everything you need to know about how choosing a college at Cambridge!

A list of topic discussions can be found below:

Trinity Hall's virtual tour:

University of Cambridge virtual tour:

00:00 Introductions

02:00 What are colleges? And how do they affect the social life at Cambridge?

08:45 What are Open Days?

09:40 What are virtual tours? (Link to Trinity Hall’s virtual tour can be found below)

11:30 What are the main differences between the colleges?

12:30 Do you have to choose a college when you apply to Cambridge?

14:15 How do the colleges/university assess the applications?

18:30 Are supervisions centralised?

21:30 Will you have time for a social life at Cambridge?

22:10 How Marcus was pooled during his application

26:00 How Siam chose his college

28:20 What college Marcus would choose if he was applying now

30:25 What college Siam would choose if he was applying now

35:00 Marcus’ application journey

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