Information for February Open Day participants

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!

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.

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.

You will see in the timetable of live sessions (above) 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 in the updates box at the top of the page 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.
 

This information is for those who signed up to visit on either Thursday 20 February or Wednesday 26 February as part of the Open Day booking form. The visit day programme will run from 12:00- 16:30 at Christ's College, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU. 

If you are coming on a visit day then in EMAIL 2:

> you have been allocated to Student Group A, Student Group B, Parent Group A or Parent Group B. Please ensure that you know which group you are in. 
> you have been sent the Visit Day timetable. 

If you provided a parent /supporter's email address, we have also sent the same information to them (Emily 3).

If you are bringing a parent/guardian, you will see on the timetable that there are different sessions for students and parents/supporters and then everyone meets back together in the Lloyd Room with the Admissions team and current students for further questions and 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.

Of course, we realise that not everyone will be able to come on a Visit Day - we emphasise that this is an optional part of the open day events, and is a a virtual look at the grounds and facilities included in the online sessions, as well as other opportunities to visit Christ's at another time.

Please see the subject meetings for the days you are visiting: 
 

Thursday 20 Feb 12:30-13:15 

Confirmed subject meetings for students only 
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 
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.

There is no parking available at Christ's. If you are planning to drive to Cambridge, we recommend the various Park and Rides around Cambridge - parking in Cambridge is very expensive! We are 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. 

As the Open Day takes place during the university term, we cannot offer accommodation / meals, however we hope that the following links will be helpful, if needed:

> Accommodation in Cambridge 
> Finding food close to the College

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