"The best thing about Christ's is the friendly, supportive and unpretentious atmosphere."
Sophie (Human, Social and Political Sciences)
A very warm welcome and congratulations to students who have received an offer from Christ's after applying to a different Cambridge College.
This page has some introductory information to 'catch you up' before you read the rest of our section for Christ's offer holders. We really hope that you will like Christ's - we are a very friendly and diverse community, we're medium-sized (we have about 420 undergraduates in total - so not too big, not too small), we're central, we have some very pretty buildings and gardens, we have students studying all of the Cambridge courses except for Veterinary Medicine, and last but not least, we have two College cats.
Introductions first!
There are three of us in the Undergraduate Admissions Office who will be helping you if you have queries as an offer holder. Our names are Kristy, Fran, and Ellie. Please call us by our first names!
The way we tend to organise things at Christ's is to have everything on our website. So along with your offer letter (once you receive it), this offer holders section should be your main source of information between now and starting your course, and we will update it periodically as appropriate. Do take some time in the next week or so to have a look at the information in this section so that you know what's in it - you'll see that there are quite a lot of sub-pages about the various things offer holders need to do or be aware of.
In particular:
The 'current points' box and the dates and deadlines page are particularly useful for alerting you to things over the year.
There's an offer holders' questions page where we put answers to common or particularly good questions that we've received from offer holders. If possible, please always check that your question isn't already answered on that page before writing to us.
Getting to know Christ's
We realise that you may not know much about Christ's at this stage, but don't worry - there's lots of info on our website that will help you to get to know the College. We recommend reading the relevant subject page in particular, and you'll find lots of little details and personal experience in the student profiles. Amongst these, you'll find quite a few students who also got their places through the Winter Pool so have been in exactly the same situation - see:
Sophie (Modern and Medieval Languages), Ana-Maria (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Hannah (Land Economy), Oliwia (Psychological and Behavioural Sciences), Alice (History), Henry (Computer Science), Mati (Land Economy), Pascual (Geography), Belinda (Geography), Emily (Music), Victoria (History and Politics), Eebbaa (History and Modern Languages)
As you can see, there's nothing too unusual about coming to Christ's through the Winter Pool - we hope you will find these reassuring to read!
If you're from outside the UK, you may also find some useful information and perspectives from some of our international students in the international students section, and we also have both UK and international profiles organised by area here.
Do also explore the student life section. There are pages on practical things such as meals, and some of the extra-curricular info such as exercise and sport, music, theatre (and much more) which might be of interest, depending on what you enjoy.
Seeing Christ's
We organise an offer holders' Visit Day in February for those who want to visit in person.
If you want to visit at another time, you are also welcome to visit the grounds during the opening hours (see details). Don't worry if you can't do this though - we show all new students around properly and explain everything when you arrive to start your course. Quite a few of our students apply from a distance, so if you've never set foot in Christ's, or in Cambridge please be assured that you won't be the only one, and it's not something that we require!
There are quite a few ways to find out about the grounds and facilities remotely, too. The University Virtual Tour shows First Court, Second Court, Third Court, The Fellows' Garden and three accommodation rooms - look Christ's up to see the 360 degree photography for all of these areas. You can also look at your subject department. We also have a College map, and the Grounds and Facilities section on our website has lots of picture pages.
"All my friends from other colleges are jealous of Christ's location!"
Yash (Natural Sciences)
Contacting us
The email address for all queries whilst you're an offer holder is admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk and we prefer emails to phone calls where possible. It is immensely helpful to us if you can remember to start ALL emails with your details including your UCAS number, e.g.
Helen Fisher
Natural Sciences (Physical)
1034723477
Offer holder for 2025 entry
Please could you also bear in mind that we would much rather liaise with you rather than your parent / teacher / grandad / neighbour! Indeed, there are data protection and confidentiality issues which can make things tricky when other people talk to us so everything is much simpler if you write to us yourself (we are very friendly!).
'Catch up' docs to upload by 14 February (12 noon)
It's never long before we get to some admin! During the application process, we asked Christ's applicants to send a number of additional documents, but as all Colleges do things differently, these may not have been requested by the College you applied to. If any of the things below are relevant to you and you have not already uploaded them, please could you upload them by 12 noon on 14 February to 'catch up' with the students who applied to Christ's directly:
| Results breakdown: If you have already taken AS levels, A levels or the International Baccalaureate and a breakdown of your exam results is available, we would like to see exactly what you scored within each grade if more information is available than the overall grade you gave on your UCAS application, or the information that is already in any transcript you are submitting. If you have such a breakdown, please email it to admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk by 14 February (12 noon). NB. This request applies to you whether or not you were required to send a transcript with your My Cambridge Application Form, though please do not re-send any documents that are included in any transcript (we already have any documents that you submitted as part of your application). If there is no further breakdown available for grades you included on your application then you do not need to send anything (this will be the case for many students). |
| International Science Olympiads: If you have been awarded an individual medal (i.e. Gold, Silver or Bronze) in an exam-based International Science Olympiad, well done! Please could you scan and email a pdf containing evidence of your award (normally the certificate, if available) to admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk by 14 February (12 noon). NB you do not need to send your certificate if a) you have been given an 'honorable mention' rather than a medal (medals are Gold, Silver, Bronze) or b) you have participated in a British Science Olympiad (or another national Olympiad) rather than an International Science Olympiad (though well done all the same!). Many thanks! |
| UK Free School meals eligibility document: We would like you to email a document to admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk by 14 February (12 noon) if one of the following points apply to you. If you are unsure about your eligibility for UK government-funded Free School Meals, please check with your school/college or have a look at this page from our current applicants section (so ignore the old deadlines/links/upload info etc - just use it for the info). Note that you do not necessarily need to be claiming Free School Meals in order to be eligible for them. > You attend a UK school or college AND you are currently eligible for Free School Meals funded by the government in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. > At some time in the last six years you have attended a UK school or college AND been eligible for Free School Meals funded by the government in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. > You are a mature applicant currently eligible for benefits that would entitle any dependent children to UK government-funded Free School Meals. |
| If you or one of your parents has EU settled or pre-settled status, please complete this form so that we can generate your document. |
| Please add admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk to your email safe senders to reduce the likelihood of emails from us ending up in your spam / junk folder. |
"I am actually very glad that I was pooled because Christ’s is lovely!"
Anissa (Medicine)