General information is available on the University website at http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/info/newugs.html which has a link to the Cambridge Student Gateway The following information is specific to Christ's College.

Fees and Finance

If you did not complete and return a Fee Status form at the time of your original application or subsequently, please download, complete and return the form now, along with a copy of your passport or other documentation to prove your fee status.

For students resident in the UK or another EU country, you should check the information available at Directgov and register accordingly.  Use the term dates given on the University website when completing LEA forms.  If asked for the length of the academic year, answer "not less than 25 weeks 3 days". Click here for important information about security. The Student Finance England deadline for receipt of new students’ applications is 31 May 2013. For Student Finance Wales the deadline is 19 April 2013 and for Student Finance Northern Ireland it's 12 April 2013. 

After you apply to your Student Finance body you will receive a package containing various documents.  English, Northern Ireland and Welsh students: you need to send the College a copy of the document “Your Student Finance Breakdown”, we do not need copies of any other pages.  You should attach this to your completed Financial Guarantee form (see below) and return both of them to the Admissions Office. Scottish students: please include a copy of your “Awards Notice” (both pages).

Students reading Medical Sciences or Veterinary Medicine should state the duration of their course as 6 years.  Students who expect during their Cambridge course to read Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Modern Languages, or Natural Sciences should state the duration of their course as 4 years even though in the event it may only be 3 years.

As a "Home" or "EU" student, the University tuition fee that you will be liable for in the academic year 2013-14 is £9,000. Inflationary increases are anticipated in subsequent years. To avoid paying an additional College fee (in 2012-13 this was £4,500 for publicly-funded students) you should apply for student finance from the UK Government, or, if you do not intend to take out a loan, you must complete and return a Fee Status form (if you have not already done so) in order to prove that you are an "eligible student". 

All students for 2013 entry must complete and return a Financial Guarantee Declaration form; there is a different form for UK/EU students and Overseas students. The deadline for reciept of this form is 1st July 2013 although it's helpful if you can get the completed form back to us as soon as possible.

Information about Cambridge fees and finance can be found here and information about the Cambridge Bursary scheme may be found here.

Accommodation

The College provides accommodation for all of its undergraduates for the full duration of the course for which they have been admitted. You do not need to apply for accommodation: it will be allocated to you automatically for your first year. (In later years you can choose it yourself, because there is a ballot.) We will give you the chance to tell us your preferred room rent for your first-year accommodation by completing a form which we will send to all 2013 entry offer-holders at the end of June.

Rooms offer a range of facilities and are of different sizes, so the rent charged varies to reflect this (click here for room rents in 2012/13). You will be charged rent for 71 days occupation during each Term. Heating, electricity and cleaning are included, and ALL rooms in College are non-smoking. Facilities for self-catering are extremely limited, so students are encouraged to take advantage of the meals offered in Hall instead.

During vacations you may ask to stay in College, but if you do then you may have to move to another room temporarily.

You will be asked to sign a "licence to occupy" agreement before you take up residence. Last year's accommodation handbook may be found at /current-students/student-accommodation/accommodation-handbook/

Examination Results

The College will receive the results of UK A-levels, STEP, and Scottish or IB examinations for candidates holding our conditional offers directly through UCAS, so it is not necessary to email or telephone us with these results.  However, if you are taking other examinations (such as Irish Leaving Certificate) please do advise us of your results as soon as they are received. 

We will be writing to you as soon as possible after we have been able to review all published exam results.  We automatically look at the possibility of relaxing the conditions of candidates who narrowly miss their target. It is very important that you contact us immediately with a note of your UMS marks if this should happen.

You might like to look at the information published by the University at http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/apply/whatnext.html

Around the end of August, all students whose places are confirmed will receive a Fresher's pack via the post (we regret it is not possible to send electronic versions). There will be a few forms enclosed which you must complete and return as soon as possible. If you know you will be away, please arrange for someone to receive the package on your behalf. It is acceptable for someone else to complete and return forms for you, as long as you are able to communicate your instructions to that person. Otherwise please let the Christ's College Admissions Office know that the return of your forms will be delayed.

Your pack will include, among other things, a letter from your personal Tutor, the location of your room and an extensive information booklet.

Support for Students with Disabilities

The College and University work together to provide whatever support is necessary to students with disabilities. If you have a disability which you did not disclose at the point of application, please download, complete, and return this form.

GCSE Certificates or equivalent

According to the University Statutes, candidates for admission must show evidence of a broad educational background and good standards of literacy and numeracy. In order for the College to determine this, please send as soon as you can either photocopies or scans (certified by your school as copies of the originals) of your GCSE examination certificates (or equivalent-level examinations) to the Christ’s College Admissions Office. It’s fine to send your certificates by email attachment. Please photocopy your certificates and ask someone at your school to sign the copies to certify that they are true copies of the originals. These copies can be scanned and sent by email (admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk) or you can send the hard copies by post (Admissions Office, Christ's College, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU).

Date of Arrival

Sunday 6 October 2013 is the date of arrival for most undergraduates.  All new students must be in Cambridge and available to meet their Tutors by 3.00pm on Sunday 6 October.  A buffet lunch will be available for all new students in Upper Hall for when you arrive.  Dinner will be served in Hall at 7.30pm with an official College welcome from the Senior Tutor; for those who are interested, there will also be a short choral Chapel service with a welcome from the Chaplain beforehand at 6.00pm.

With the exception of students coming from overseas, later or earlier arrival is not normally possible.  (Special arrangements will be made for those taking a compulsory pre-term course.)  For students coming from outside the UK, it may be possible to arrive a day or two earlier, but Thursday 3rd October is the very earliest. International students must contact admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk if they wish to arrange arrival between Thursday 3rd October and Sunday 6th October.

When you arrive at the College, please report to the Porters in the Lodge at the Great Gate (St Andrew's Street). They will register your arrival and give you the key to your room.

A map and directions to the College are available. You should be aware that the traffic in and around Cambridge will be extremely heavy and much patience is required. Several hundred other students also will be trying to get into their colleges through streets which were laid out in medieval times!

Course Changes

Any proposed change of course from the one for which an undergraduate has been admitted can only be considered for implementation after his or her examinations have been taken at the end of the first year.

Dates of Terms

This link takes you to the University of Cambridge Term dates. Students are expected to arrive in College no later than the weekend before the Tuesday on which Full Term starts and may leave over the weekend after the Friday on which Full Term ends.

The Terms are short and intense and absence from Cambridge during Term is inadvisable.  You should certainly avoid making any advance commitment which would require absence during your first Term.

E-Mail

All Cambridge students are allocated a Cambridge email address with their initials followed by a number in the form abc88@cam.ac.uk, the allocated address may be found from September at

http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/new-students/

but you cannot collect your password until you come to Cambridge.

Motor Vehicles

Only in very exceptional circumstances is permission ever given to undergraduates to keep cars, motor-cycles or mopeds in Cambridge.

Musical Instruments, Televisions and other electrical equipment

Musical instruments (and electrical equipment) may be used in College rooms only if permission has been given by your Tutor.  Television sets are not permitted in College rooms at all.  Kettles, radios, normal hi-fi equipment and computers do not require special permission. 

Student Cards

If you require a letter certifying that you are a full-time student (e.g. to obtain a student travel card or a visa) this can be supplied by your Tutor.  Please send a stamped addressed envelope, and in appropriate cases a photograph for certification.