Eve Bennett breaks down Oxford Colleges (Best and 'Worst') - University and Everything in Between 

@Braden Caden haha 😂

God bless you.

Completely agree! Everyone does love their own college, gotta say though Oxford and York are both Collegiate and the attitude in York is that there are distinct differences and opinions on the types of people, quality of rooms, events, parties, controversies that go on at each different college! Knowing it might be similiar at Oxford was the reason for looking at each college individually with Eve

Couldn't agree more, the colleges also have far more similarities than differences. You can't go wrong!

That is very interesting thank you for sharing!😊

A guy from where I live designed the coronation oath.

That’s cool! I’m just finding it funny that there was a school near me where I grew up called Balliol College (now closed) that was a bad boys school 😂

Ya actually I read articles cause I wanna go there and I saw that and it blew my mind I’m glad they don’t do that anymore

its still really hard to get into though💀

Absolutely! I will try my best to line up another guest from Oxford to take me through it! So glad you enjoyed the content :)

@@universityandeverythinginb4670 Thank you!

Really appreciate it!

Thank you so much! That has made my day!

what would you say about LMH?

which undergraduate college would you recommend?

@@cherielovesyou111 no particular recommendation from me. I’m not ducking the question, it’s just that so much depends on what you want. My point was mainly that this video should not be taken as a good source of impartial data.

Yes

Absolutely! I will try my best to sort something out! Glad you enjoy this one though :)

There is another factor : unless I'm mistaken, in a previous era, Jesus College had 'closed' (i.e. the applicant pool was restricted to a specific group) entrance scholarships and exhibitions, which were for Welshmen only (it was an all-male college at the time). Hence the age-old notion that Jesus is Welsh. Similar arrangements are found in the histories of many, if not most, colleges in Oxford and Cambridge : New College Oxford and Winchester College (a 'public school') were founded together - the latter feeding pupils to the former. Subsequently, a similar founding arrangement linked Eton and King's, Cambidge - the king being Henry VI.

@@ffibnogab7644 wow I didn’t know that - cool!

Good Morning - presumably, you are associated with Jesus and might, therefore, be interested in some breakfast reading : oxoniensia.org/volumes/1998/allen.pdf

That is great history! Perhaps this is something to include in a new video, going into the history of different universities/colleges?

A fine idea, ​ @University and Everything in Between - and it's certainly not all about noblemen in doublet-and-hose, prancing about Oxbridge .. For example, there's the inspiring - and, arguably more relatable - story of how the industrial revolution led to the 'let's build it here' establishment of institutions such as Manchester University and Imperial College, London. It can, on occasion, be forgotten how these institutions embodied a sense of optimism about the future and were a source of civic pride. This optimism was infectious - as can be seen in the 'we can do that too' foundation of Keble College - a grand edifice built of very modern-looking (for the time) brick. And the audacious demolition and replacement of Balliol's Broad Street frontage. The man who designed that, Alfred Waterhouse, was prolific and, later, contracted to build all of Girton College, Cambridge - Britain's first residential university institution for women. Waterhouse's son - and his son in turn - also added to Girton's buildings. And following that progressive historical thread a very small way indeed, we arrive at the beginnings of Eve Bennett's home-and-hearth, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Brasenose, Merton, And Magdalen and traditionally the law colleges :)

Im at Magdalen and there are a lot of other subjects but it’s known for other subjects too (eg classics).. for graduate study it’s recently started accepting more subjects so there’s a shift there!

I have got something in the works, stick around to catch it over the new year!

I don't do chemistry myself but general advice for applying to Oxford is learn as much about your subject as you can - the tutors will care much more about how you answer questions in your interviews than extracurriculars you've done or other skills you write about in your personal statement. Since chemistry (I believe) doesn't have an entrance test, there's a high interview rate so your best bet is to focus on preparing for that. Hope this makes sense!

Depends what you’re looking for! Try looking at the fellows for the subject on the college websites and their interests :) beyond that, think about what location, accommodation, student support etc :)

I would have thought that was the most important consideration.

Uni is what you make of it and you will defo find people who are your crowd! Do you start next year?

@@universityandeverythinginb4670 yep starting next years just had my interviews for oxford and im not sure they went very well, but we shall see, the content is pretty good by the way.

Don’t worry about it. Just be a good person and most people will like you and if they don’t, fuck em and find ones you click with. I use to get on with people at school and I used to hate the guts of others. It is what is in the end.

yo did you end up getting in

@@MiniIand i didn't but took a gap year and reapplied, and i got in for this year.

Absolutely! I am racking up quite a list of ones I missed! Ah ha

I'm a fresher at Johns this year!! It's honestly so lovely and so well positioned central in the city :)

Im working on a part 2 hopefully!😊

Where, by kind permission of Her Majesty the Queen, they keep their clocks on Oxford Local Time as opposed to Greenwich Mean Time? Meaning that you can turn up five minutes late but still be on time for a lecture or a tutorial?

Good luck. It is a great college. I accidentally applied to Christ Church in 1999 and got in.

What are you planning to study? If you are going for PPE, thirteen British PM's have attended Christ Church.

Love the summer courses at Christchurch.

Is this Eve being controversial? I didn't notice it whilst editing

@@universityandeverythinginb4670 maybe😂 Either that, or I've missed something....seeing from the other comments, probably the former

@@adithyaavadhani I believe one of the colleges we talked about has a history of and perhaps still has a culture of male drinking clubs (I am only going off what I remember from the chat with Eve) but yeah, this chat was from a while back and she could have criticised it for being 'toxic' however I think just take it with a pinch of salt

Glance at any college's Alternative Prospectus and you will see the word 'friendly'. By contrast, this film seems to offer certain colleges the amusing Oxford equivalent of a one-star Tripadvisor review, which suggests that some friendlies are friendlier than others and other friendlies are, actually, not friendly at all. So who is right ? I would suggest that modern every-day perceptions of a given college, are informed by : firstly, what comes to us from the past, such as the Welshness of Jesus College. Secondly, the public perception of notable alumni in wider society and, thirdly, if less obviously, how that college might appear in the 'day-to-day' , to tourists and to those 'on business' there. To consider that third factor : colleges are, formally, closed organisations of finite membership. This can lead to a place being discussed in hushed and reverent tones, dismissed as a bastion of something yukky or simply not acknowledged at all - out of sight, out of mind. Every college has its friends, its enemies and those who mis-pronounce its name.

Watch the film “The Riot Club” :)

Suggestions for the next one? I have lined up another RU-vidr from Oxford so will include these!

Corpus Christi

Not true.

@@jamesfrance57 it is true! They admit 2 Examination Fellows per year, 4-6 Post Doc Fellows every other year, and 4 Senior Research Fellows every other year.

@@Grace-ot3xf So not two then.

@@jamesfrance57 I think the original comment was just referring to Examination Fellows! It is only 2 every other year.

@@Grace-ot3xf Well, Grace, that is quite different. I read only 'All Souls only admits 2 people a year'. My comment refers to that.

Ha ha she is just giving her perception of the colleges, and by the sounds of it at Oxford there are quite a lot! But I am planning to speak to more oxford students to get a wider look into their experience, not just one person

@@universityandeverythinginb4670 if you want to interview an ex-Hertford student I’d be more than happy to help!

You’re so pressed lmao

“Barely speaks english” do you think you have to have a posh accent to speak English properly lmao

@@Daniel_Moran posh accents, as you put it, and speaking English well are not the same.

@@jamesfrance57 how is eve not speaking English well?