Offer holder information 2025
This webpage is for students currently holding an offer to study at King's College, Cambridge.

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Congratulations on your offer to study at King's! We are delighted to have been able to make you an offer and wish you the best of luck in your exams, if you are yet to take them. Please read all of the information on this page and in the links very carefully and check them regularly for updates.
For queries, we prefer to be contacted by email in all cases. Please start all emails with your name, subject, and UCAS Personal ID.
Where you are required to upload documents, please don't forget to name all your documents with your name, subject, and UCAS Personal ID. All documents should be uploaded to the relevant link mentioned in the offer letter. If you are uncertain, contact the Admissions Office.
If you are holding a deferred offer, there will be a year and eight months between receiving your offer in January and starting at King's. Therefore, while certain dates and deadlines on this page may be useful to familiarise yourself with, the majority of important information will be found on your offer letter and updates relating to your offer will be sent directly to you via email by the Admissions Team.
Important dates and deadlines
What? | Who? | What we need | Deadline |
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Offer decision | |||
Reply to UCAS | All offer holders | You must officially respond to your Cambridge offer on UCAS with a firm acceptance, insurance, or decline | See UCAS |
Academic conditions | |||
Exam certificates for qualifications declared in your application as already achieved | All offer holders | You must email us copies of certificates or statements showing results for all the qualifications you declared as already achieved on your UCAS application or My Cambridge Application. | 30 March 2025 |
Changes to exams you haven't taken yet | Offer holders considering any changes to exams they haven't taken yet | If you are considering any changes to the exams that you said you would be taking on your UCAS form, you must request permission from the Admissions Tutor before making a change by emailing us. | As soon as possible and before making any changes |
Exam results not processed by UCAS (mostly international examination results) | Offer holders with a conditional offer and qualifications which are not processed by UCAS (see list of qualifications processed by UCAS) | You must email us a copy of your official results document and an English translation, if needed (a translation by you is fine). If the document does not state the specific results required by your offer, please ask a teacher to confirm what you achieved in the terms we asked for it. | As soon as they are released to you |
English language conditions | |||
English Language requirement | Offer holders with an English language condition in their offer letter | You must verify that you have achieved your English language condition by emailing us the relevant results. Please see your offer letter for details of your condition. | 31 August 2025 |
Financial conditions | |||
Confirmation of Home status | Offer holders with UK Home status | To prove your eligibility for Home fees, you must apply to the appropriate student finance agency and email us the requested document. | As soon as you receive the documents after applying |
Home financial guarantee | Offer holders with UK Home status | You must complete the Financial Guarantee Declaration form and provide any supporting financial documents. This form will be emailed to you in April before you start your course. | See your offer letter |
Financial guarantee outside the UK | Offer holders with EU and Overseas status | You must complete the Financial Guarantee Declaration form and provide any supporting financial documents. This form will be emailed to you in April before you start your course. | See your offer letter |
Visa conditions | |||
Meet the conditions of your offer | Offer holders who require a visa | You must meet all of the conditions of your offer (including academic, financial, and English language conditions) before we can issue a CAS and start the process of getting you a visa. You must send the required documentation requested by the Admissions Office by the deadline specified. | Shared by the Admissions Office |
Apply for ATAS clearance | Offer holders for science and technology subjects who require a visa | You will need to act on the email from the International Students Team received in May or June. Once your clearance has been approved, you must email us a copy of the certificate. | As soon as possible after you receive the email from the International Students Team |
Apply for your visa (see website) | Offer holders who have met all the conditions of their offer and have received a CAS from Cambridge | The International Students Team begin to issue CAS to offer holders from June. Once you have received yours, apply for your visa as soon as you can. | Depends on which country you are from |
Show original copies of your passport, immigration documents, and exam certificates | Offer holders who require a visa | You will be asked to take original copies of your passport, immigration documents (including evidence of the date of your arrival in the UK), and your exam certificates to the King's Tutorial Office, which is in room F2 on the ground floor of the Gibbs Building. | In Freshers' Week, once you arrive at King's |
Accessibility and disability support | |||
Advice and support for offer holders with a disability or accessibility requirement | Offer holders with a disability or accessibility requirement which they did not highlight in their application | We encourage you to submit a student information form to the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre who provide confidential help and advice. We are also always happy to for you to contact King's. | At any time, but please submit the form in advance of your arrival at King's as it allows the process of putting support in place to begin |
Significant disruption to your studies after January | Offer holders who have significant disruption to their studies | We encourage you to ask a teacher to email us to keep us informed. | As soon as possible, if and when required |
Problems and interruptions in examinations | Offer holders who encounter a problem in an exam | We encourage you to ask a teacher to email us to keep us informed. | As soon as possible, if and when required |
Music Award applications | |||
Choral Award application | Any offer holder interested in singing for King's College Choir or King's Voices | Visit the University's Centre for Music Performance (CMP) website to apply for a Choral Award. | See the CMP website |
Choral Award reference | Any offer holder interested in singing for King's College Choir or King's Voices | Complete the Choral Award reference form on the CMP website. | See the CMP website |
Instrumental Award application | Interested offer holders with Grade 8 Distinction or equivalent in Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, or French horn | Visit the CMP site to apply for an Instrumental Award. | See the CMP website |
Accommodation and other freshers' forms | |||
Accommodation | Offer holders who are accepted to study at King's | Freshers receive the accommodation form and further information and forms for joining the College in late August / early September. There is nothing to do for accommodation before you receive freshers' information. Rooms are allocated in September, after exam results for all conditional offer holders have been received. | By a date in early September to be confirmed in your freshers' letter |
Change of contact details | |||
Changes to contact details | Offer holders with a change to their mailing address, phone number or email address | Update your details on UCAS Track and also send us an email with the new information. | As soon as your details change |
International students
If your examinations are not in the list of results UCAS receives and passes on to us, please scan and email a document showing your official results when you receive it. If you are unable to do this, you can post us a photocopy. The document you send must be a clear copy and must specifically state any subjects and grades we have asked for in your academic offer. If we have asked you for something not directly stated on the document you receive, please ask a teacher at your school to send us specific confirmation on school letter-headed paper that you have achieved the relevant grades or scores. If your results document is not in English, please also provide an English translation (a translation by you is fine).
If your exams are listed in the UCAS list, you do not need to do anything as we will automatically receive your exam results.
If you have met your academic offer conditions, congratulations! Nothing will happen now until we have all exam results after A Level results are published in mid-August. We will write to all conditional offer holders at the same time in August to confirm places. Please ensure that you re-read your offer letter and the offer holders' checklist and ensure that you have met any non-academic conditions as well. Please do not worry about UCAS Track (which will not update for some time) - what matters is that you have met all the conditions set out in your offer letter. If you will need a visa, see the visa section on the checklist above.
If you have not met your academic offer conditions, please stay calm. We will write as soon as possible after receiving the results for all our offer holders in mid-August. As you know, we base all decisions on our judgement of the academic promise of a candidate, and on the application as a whole. We may be able to admit some candidates who have missed their offers very narrowly. There is no need for you to act before we contact you. We are happy to receive a letter of support from your school via email if they have anything to add to the original UCAS reference they wrote for you.
Next steps after exam results
If you have met the requirements of your offer, congratulations! In most cases UCAS Track will update accordingly and you will receive an email from the Admissions Team shortly afterwards. Please do not worry if there is a delay between receiving your exam results and receiving communication from us or UCAS.
If you have not met the academic offer conditions set out in your January offer letter, please stay calm. As you know, we base all decisions on our judgement of your academic promise, as reflected by your application as a whole. We will be in touch with you as soon as we can.
UCAS Track is your first source of information. Please check it to see if a decision has been made on your application before contacting us. If UCAS Track has not yet updated, we are still considering your application. As soon as our decision is finalised, UCAS Track will update.
If you are an A Level student and we are still considering your application, please scan and email us your UMS marks as quickly as possible on Results Day. If you have missed a STEP offer, please send us your UMS grades even if you have met your A Level conditions. We are happy to receive a letter of support from your school if they have anything to add to the original UCAS reference they wrote for you. Any letters from your school should be sent by email. All emails should include your full name, your subject and your UCAS ID.
We will email you when we can. This will normally come after UCAS Track updates. Although we will do our best to keep you informed, it may not be possible to email you straight away.
Please be aware that, in order to preserve the integrity of our admissions processes, the College will not accept any gift from a prospective applicants, and/or anyone, including friends or family members, where that gift is made in reference to, or could reasonably be interpreted to be in reference to, an actual or intended application by them to the College.

Accommodation and arrival information
You will receive further information about accommodation and arrival at King's in late August / early September, once all places have been confirmed. This will be sent via email. There is nothing you need to do for accommodation or arrival before you receive this freshers' information.
Once you receive this information, arrival information will be confirmed and you will be able to complete any forms required of you, including the accommodation form. For accommodation, you will be given a choice over two things: your preferred building and the length of lease. You can also specify if you wish to be guaranteed a room at the lower end of the rent scale. The Accommodation Officer will also take into account any students with special accommodation needs (such as disabled access).