Information for February Open Day participants

This page is for students who have a place on our February Open Day

Welcome to the February Open Day participants page! For those who have booked a place, this event includes a combination of elements. Details are below but there are two essential notes:

• All joining details and recordings will be sent by email only.
• We ask that you watch the Director of Admissions's pre-recorded film before attending her session.

This page has the current updates for participants and details of the different elements of the event:

• Updates
• The pre-recorded talk
• Live sessions
• Recordings after the open day
• Info for parents and guardians
• If you are reading this but have not booked a place
• In-person tours on 20 February or 26 February
   

Pre-recorded talk

Our Director of Admissions, Dr Emily Tomlinson, has recorded two talks for you to watch before the open day. This is to maximise your opportunity to ask questions during the admissions sessions and also to help you get more out of the other sessions. The 19 February live admission session with Dr Tomlinson (see timetable below) will be mainly Q&A, answering your follow-up questions from the presentation.

• Click here to watch Part I: Why Cambridge 
• Click here to watch Part II: The Application Process

Please watch both of these sessions before the Q&A, and bring your questions to the live webinar!
 

Live sessions online

The table below shows the times of the live sessions. We realise that you will not all be available for every session (see recordings) and we realise that some of you may have already attended a session or two as part of our regular webinar series.

To get the most out of the online open day, we recommend that you watch the pre-recorded talks in advance of all live sessions and write down any questions that come to mind.

Recordings

We will give open day participants time-limited access to a set of session recordings. The link to recordings will be sent by email shortly after the open day (EMAIL 4 - see updates) and the recordings will then be available until the end of 10 March. We hope that this will enable you to watch anything you wanted to see if the time of the session was inconvenient in your case.

Information for parents & guardians

You will see in the list of live sessions that parents and guardians (parents is shorthand - any supporters) are welcome in all live events.

At 17:00 (UK time) on Wednesday 19 February there is an opportunity to join the Q&A with our Director of Admissions so that you can ask questions. If you would like to take part, please ensure that you watch the pre-recorded talks BEFORE joining this session, as the Q&A is for further questions following the talk. In order to make the session as helpful as possible, we are hoping that the questions will be further questions, following on from watching the films (which should already answer quite a lot of initial questions). Many thanks.

If your child gave us an email address for you on the booking request form, you will be sent "EMAIL 3" with joining details from the end of January. If your child did not provide an email address or you would like to receive more than this, please simply ask your child to forward emails 2 and 4 to you (you can see the updates when they have been sent, if you want to check). Note that we are not able to add email addresses to the parents list (aiming to keep this simple). If your child is not organised with their email (!) now is a great time to have a chat about this, as they will need to be reading their email and keeping track of important emails received during the application process.
 

If you are reading this and have not yet booked a place

Bookings for this event are still open and you can book here.

If you would like to visit in person for the College tours and sessions in the afternoon of Thursday 20 Feb or Wednesday 26 Feb

All prospective students for the open day have been sent a timetable for the visit day they requested and they have been allocated a Group for the tours and sessions (the visit days will run from 12:00- 16:30 but you do not need to attend the full time unless you want to). Where a student gave a parent/supporter's email address, we have also sent the same information to them.

There are different sessions for students and parents/supporters and then everyone meets back together in the Lloyd Room with the Admissions team and some current students to ask any more questions and have some refreshments. Feedback on this has been very positive in previous open day events, so please don't worry - it's a great chance to each view our college for yourself and you can catch up / compare notes afterwards.

For the visit day timetable, please see Emails 2/3 and please note that due to capacity, we ask for students to bring one parent/supporter (and no other family members) where possible.

Thursday 20 Feb 12:30-13:15 confirmed subject meetings for students only (some subjects still to be confirmed): various rooms - you will be directed by our current students

If there is not a meeting for the subject you are interested in, we will be holding online subject meetings later in the year.

Wednesday 26 Feb 12:30-13:15 confirmed subject meetings for students only (some subjects still to be confirmed): various rooms - you will be directed by our current students

If there is not a meeting for the subject you are interested in, we will be holding online subject meetings later in the year.

The Visit Days are optional, and there will be a virtual tour opportunity included in the online sessions, as well as other opportunities to visit Christ's at another time.

There is no parking available at Christ's. Anyone planning to drive to Cambridge, we recommend to use the various Park and Rides around Cambridge - parking in Cambridge is very expensive! We are also only a 25 minute walk from the Cambridge train station (main - not Cambridge North which is 45 minutes!). All details and links for P&R, parking and getting to Christ's can be found here. 
 

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