The College is keen to support students with a disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or chronic health condition. The University has a centrally situated Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre, a Counselling Service, and ever-increasing resources to enable students with difficulties of all kinds to live and study at Cambridge.
We strongly advise that any disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or chronic health condition you have is disclosed to us as part of the application process. This will in no way negatively impact your application, rather will ensure the College can support you to the best of its ability throughout the admissions process.
You can do this by:
Asking your referee to mention it in the reference
Submitting an Extenuating Circumstances Form
You must:
Submit an adjustment form (even if you do not require any adjustments)
Independently apply for access arrangements for any assessment you need to register for yourself
Any information you provide us with will be taken into consideration alongside your application.
We will also:
Replicate any school access arrangements in any assessments we register you for
Replicate any school access arrangements in interview (if invited)
Ensure interviewers are made aware of any disability, condition or additional need that you have
If you have any doubts or questions, please email undergraduate.admissions@kings.cam.ac.uk
We will do our best to adapt the admissions process to take into consideration any disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or chronic health condition that you have, provided that these adjusted modes of assessment do not impede our capacity to adequately assess the candidate's academic potential to a similar degree as other modes of assessment. Equally, where a candidate indicates a need for an alternative mode of assessment that would not be available for the purposes of examination in relation to the course applied for, this may lead to the application being rejected. This is ensure that only students who would be able to complete their degree course are admitted.
If you would like more information about what modes of assessment might be available to you as an incoming student, please contact the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre for more information.
When you have an offer The Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre will contact offer holders who declared a disability on their UCAS form regarding support at Cambridge, including the Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) etc. Offer holders are also encouraged to contact the King's College Admissions Office or the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre with any questions or concerns relating to a disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or chronic health condition. We ask all students whether they have any special accommodation needs as one of the questions on the accommodation request form in the late-August / early September before you start your course. These are taken into account when we allocate accommodation.
