Congratulations on your offer! For deferred entry offer holders, there is more than a year between receiving your offer in mid-January and starting your course at Christ's.
When you are reading the offer holders section, note that since yours is a deferred offer, some of the information in the section relates to this year and some of the information will be about things that you do next year (and if your offer is for 2024 entry, some will even be about things you do the year after!). This dedicated page for deferred entry offer holders should help clarify when you need to do things.
Deadlines
In the year you receive your offer
When reading the dates and deadlines page, note that the deadlines which you need to meet in the year you receive your offer are as follows:
- reply to your offer
- send passport copy
- send certificates
- if you were made an offer from the pool, send 'catch-up' documents
- let us know if you're a care leaver
- note STEP information if relevant
- email us if you want to make any changes to your exam entries.
- meet any academic conditions (see your offer letter)
- meet any English language conditions (see your offer letter)
- choral award application (this can be made in either year, depending on your plans)
- disability, Specific Learning Difficulty or long-term illness disclosure, interruptions to your studies, short-term illness and exam problems
- keep us up-to-date with any changes to your contact details
NB. The full offer holders section is published in mid-January each year so once you've done the things above, note that between September and January, some pages may not be available to you.
From January of the year you start your course
We will update the offer holders section for your entry year and email you in the second half of January of the year you are due to start at Christ's. The email we send will be an update on your offer, now including financial information for your entry year, the new Terms of Admissions, and we will remind you that you must now meet the remaining deadlines listed on the dates and deadlines page from January to August in the year before you are due to start at Christ's, in particular:
- send passport copy (only if you have a new passport)
- visa conditions
- financial conditions
- disability, Specific Learning Difficulty or long-term illness disclosure, difficult circumstances
- choral award application (can be made in either year, depending on your plans)
- instrumental award application
- Medicine documents if your offer is for Medicine
- College Living Arrangements form
- keep us up-to-date with any changes to your contact details
If your year of entry needs updating with UCAS
- Most deferred offer holders are given their deferred offer in January. Your UCAS Hub will then display the correct entry year by the end of January. Therefore the following points will not apply to you.
- If the Director of Admissions has agreed to change your entry year in the time since we made the offer in January, then once we have processed this, UCAS will contact you to ask you to formally accept a change to your entry year. It's very important that you follow their instruction promptly when asked.
- Those who need a two-year deferral (for reasons of National Service commitments) will receive a one-year deferred offer via UCAS in the first instance. This is because it's not possible to enter a two-year deferral at UCAS. Please email us in the autumn of the year after you applied to ask us to defer your place for another year. The timeline will look like this:
- if you applied by 15 October 2021 for entry in 2024, you will receive an offer for 2023 with UCAS (even though the Christ's offer letter we send you will say 2024).
- if you meet the conditions of your offer, your place will be confirmed in late August 2022 (we will write to you)
- when the next admissions cycle opens in September 2022, please email us to ask us to defer your place to 2024
- UCAS will contact you to ask you to formally accept a change to your entry year. Please ensure that you reply promptly.
If you hold a conditional offer
If your offer has academic conditions, then after you have taken your exams, and assuming that you have met the grades we require, we will write to you at the same time as everybody else in mid-August to formally confirm that your offer is now an unconditional offer. There is nothing that you need to do in response to this letter.
You won't hear much from us in September - December 2022, as this is the period in which the rest of your cohort will make their applications, and have their assessment and interviews. The following January we will update the dates and deadlines page for your entry year, and in late January, we will email you with an update including financial information for your entry year and the updated Terms of Admissions for your entry year.
Other information
Please be aware that information in the offer holders' section may be updated so we advise you to read it periodically.
Please ensure that you start all emails to us with the details we need. Many thanks! Here's a fictional example of what we need at the beginning of your emails:
Kerry DAVIES,
Natural Sciences (Physical),
1084772831
Offer for 2023 entry
Tuition fee information will be updated on the university website at the links provided below once the information for 2023 and 2024 entry is confirmed.
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