Your life. Your work. The way you think.

What you are about to read could change everything.

Lucy Cavendish College is a radical place within the University of Cambridge.

It is one of the least mentioned, least effusive, least famous of all the Cambridge colleges but it is responsible for propelling hundreds of the most immensely talented, driven and interesting people on the planet.

All of them are women.

Lucy Cavendish College is the only mature women’s college at Cambridge. It is one of the newest colleges, too.

You would not believe the transformations that take place unless you had seen them for yourself.

Unless the transformation had happened to you.

“Every time I hear people say they don’t like change, there are 300 women I’d like them to meet.”Janet Todd President

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world, whether recognised or not. Not only that, they are often high achievers who have excelled in personal situations that would give more than sufficient excuse not to.

Colleges with mixed-sex teenage student populations cannot do this nearly so well. This college does not have an axe to grind against men nor is it a separatist haven. It simply provides a better way of treating mature women, we believe.

At Lucy Cavendish College, your life plan will never be judged. You will never be discouraged from doing something that you feel determined to achieve. You can change anything you want if you have a mind to.

For those women who decide that their aspirations simply have to be met, Lucy Cavendish College is there to feed the hunger for change that builds on their experience of life.

In the months and years ahead, this modestly-sized college will serve as a kindof intellectual and social base-camp whereyour aspirations will be protected and encouraged. A special place where you will feel, albeit temporarily, that you are immune from the negativity and lack of ambition that may pervade the outside world.

Sharing this space with other like-minded women will demonstrate that you are part of a sizable community of high achievers who have had a huge impact on the

Huge ambitions, visionary plans and imaginative outlooks: all accommodated at Lucy Cavendish College.

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Lucy Cavendish College website:www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

Information about the President: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/ the-president.php

Contact address for admissions office: lcc-admissions@lists.cam.ac.uk

Phone number for admissions office: 01223 330 280

Graduate applications are made via the Board of Graduate studies:www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud

Information about undergraduate tuition fees: www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/finance/tuition.html

Information on Women’s Word: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages//posts/womens-word150.php

The University of Cambridge has thirty-one colleges, each operating in what is known as a collegiate system.

You belong to a particular college but you attend lectures in University departments in your given subject with students from other colleges who are studying the same thing. Each subject will have faculty and lecture facilities.

Your everyday life will revolve around your college - in this case, Lucy Cavendish College.

You will mix with all kinds of women, aged between 21 and 60. 20% of our students are over forty. In other words, you will be amongst women who have much more experience of life than at other colleges.

Your fellow students will come from all over the world and the split between under and postgraduate is about fifty-fifty.

Most of our 150 undergraduates and a good proportion of our postgraduates live onsite, which is a very brief walk from the centre of Cambridge and literally across the road from other colleges.

Being a student at Lucy Cavendish College is unlike being a student anywhere else.So, what is it like?

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LocationAlmost everything you need is in walking distance. Here is a link showing a map and the location of the college in relation to important University facilities: www.cam.ac.uk/map

AccommodationWe have rooms onsite or nearby for all undergraduates who need them - family accommodation is limited. Student rooms are either ensuite, or with a bathroom shared with another student, or in small groups or flats with shared facilities. Ground floor rooms are especially designed for disabled students and communal buildings have lifts.

FeesUndergraduate fees at Cambridge consistof the University fee and the College fee. You will be liable for the College fee if youare an Overseas student, if you are a Home student undertaking a second undergrad-uate degree or if you are an EU student undertaking a second UK undergraduate degree (i.e. you have already received UK funding for a first degree). There is a range of help available for home and overseas students.

AdmissionsYou can undertake a wider range of preparation than students applying to standard age colleges - Access and Open University courses, for example – although A levels are still considered the best preparation for some subjects. Unless you are already engaged in academic work or have achieved appropriate qualifications in the last two years you will need to plan a further programme. Some Access courses

are better than others, and it is advisable to choose a course which requires you to write plenty of essays and sit exams, as Cambridge is both essay- and exam-oriented. Our academic conditions are typically the equivalent of A*AA at A level.

Undergraduates who have undertaken a first degree elsewhere can apply to study for a second BA as an Affiliated student. The Affiliated degree is taken in two years rather than three. The Cambridge BA becomes an MA after a period of 3 years.

We are always very happy to give advice. Contact our Admissions Office at any time during the year or go online and download a registration form for our Open Days and Taster Days where you can meet Directors of Studies and the Admissions Tutor and discuss your application.

You may spend less time with us but being an Affiliated studentwill not lessen the impact of Lucy Cavendish College.

The Lucy Cavendish College experience never leaves you. Which explains why so many graduates return.Continuing your education with an M.Phil. or PhD can be a personally fulfilling but immensely solitary occupation. The sheer scope and scale of your research projects can cause you to feel very detached from even the mainstream education sector. Many postgraduates regard it as a very lonely existence.

Thankfully, Lucy Cavendish College has a very active and comprehensive programme of post graduate workshops and seminars that give exceptional levels of support and engender a real feeling of

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belonging. These programmes cover anything from thesis writing, to getting published or considering ethics and acquiring skills.

There is a well-established postgraduate programme of workshops, meetings and seminars.

Every year scholarships are available for exceptional students from The Cambridge Home and EU Scholarship Scheme (CHESS).

Look at the full range of courses online.

As an Affiliated student your time at Lucy Cavendish College will be particularly demanding because you will be completing a degree at one of the top three universities in the world in one year less than other undergraduates.

Not surprisingly then, you must already have or expect to gain an Upper Second Class degree or First. Or, if you’re from the USA, a GPA of at least 3.75

This means you will need to be excep-tionally able and highly motivated but you will be helped enormously by the environment at Lucy Cavendish College. There is nowhere you could go that could possibly give you more encouragement to succeed.

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• Modern accommodation on-site. All units of accommodation have internet access and the computer room in the library provides computers and printers linked to the University Network and Internet. Multi-media facilities for video-links and language use are located in a separate sound-proofed room.

• Dining in-hall every day and with a Formal Hall once a week. Formal Hall is a Cambridge tradition where all the members of the College (Fellows, tutors, staff and students) meet together for a formal (and very good value) 3 -course meal with wine. On these occasions college gowns are worn but the atmosphere is anything but formal.

• Purpose built and well-stocked library with over 27,000 books and journals. In addition there are specialist collections including Anna Bidder’s treasure trove of children’s books, the Rogers Collection of books on China, the Brooke’s Collection, a special collection of books on the history of Christendom and a growing collection of archives including the papers of the comedian Joyce Grenfell. The library is only yards away from the University Library with over 7 million volumes.

• The College grounds are beautiful and peaceful and provide the perfect setting to walk, talk and think. Unusually, there is a music room in a pavilion in the

grounds as well as many quiet seating areas for reflection.

• The Lucy Cavendish College Student Union plays a vital and active role in college life. Apart from representing the students to the governing body, it organises many social and sporting events. The college has been particularly strong in rowing (we share a boat with Hughes Hall) and in netball. We have a highly successful College Choir, and as well as having its very own steel band, Lucy Cavendish is home to the Cambridge University Steel Pan Society (CUSPS).

• The Lucy Cavendish College Bar is housed in a purpose-built conservatory and lounge area available to the students at all times. There is also a large common room with wide-screen TV, newspapers, movies, books, and coffee-making facili-ties for students.

• Women’s Word is the annual literary festival held at the College in June that celebrates women’s creativity. Past speakers include Ali Smith, Pru Leith, Carol-Ann Duffy, Fay Weldon and Toby LItt. Future speakers include Julie Burchill, Cherie Blair, Allison Pearson and PD James.

Here are some highlights of what you will experience at Lucy Cavendish College:

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Thanks to Lucy Cavendish College, neither of these women’s lives went according to plan.

Dr Marcia Schofield, MA, MB BChir MSc

“I was getting too old to stand on stage playing keyboards in a leather miniskirt. I studied Medicine at Lucy Cavendish from 1992-97 and am now Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pain Management at the University of Cardiff and also hold NHS contract as Associate Specialist in Pain Medicine at West Suffolk Hospital, which is part of University of Cambridge Teaching Hospitals Trust.”

Lucy Cavendish CollegeLady Margaret RoadCambridgeCB3 0BU

Telephone: 01223 332 190Fax: 01223 332 178 Email: lcc-admin@lists.cam.ac.uk

Juliet Sharpe

“I chose Lucy Cavendish and no other college because of its uniqueness as the only female mature college in Cambridge. I wanted to be around peers who were also returning to or continuing education, women who were focused and wanted to also make a difference in their lives and others. I used to be a broadcast assistant. Now I lead the Lucy Cavendish Ladies of Steel.”

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