Congratulations on securing an offer to study at Girton College
- This page will be updated at various points between now and confirmation in August.
- Please make sure you bookmark it and check it regularly.
- If you have any queries or concerns regarding your offer or studying at Girton College, please do not hesitate to contact us.
As detailed in your offer letter, the College needs to see proof of identity for all students holding offers. To enable us to do this all offer-holders who have not already been asked to provide ID for reasons such as for fee status or immigration purposes, must provide us with a copy of a valid photographic identity document.
Acceptable documentation is as follows:
UK students
- A valid UK passport is the preferred form of ID.
If the preferred form of ID is not available, then one of the following would be acceptable:
- Current photo-card driving licence, full or provisional, issued in the UK or Ireland which includes confirmation that the holder was born within the EEA (included next to date of birth on the card. N/K means ‘not known’ so would not be acceptable).
- A full birth certificate issued by UK authorities, long or short form acceptable. This includes certificates issued in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland and by UK authorities overseas such as Embassies, High Commissions and HM Forces.
- Certificate of naturalisation or registration as a British Citizen.
EEA and Swiss students
- A valid passport
- Current national identity card
International Students
- A valid passport
- Some forms of national identity card - contact us to check
Sending documentation
Before sending us your ID copy, please label it in the following format: LastName_FirstName_UCAS PID_ID.
Once you have labelled it correctly, please upload your ID copy here: ID Submission Form
If you are unable to provide ID based on the acceptable documentation listed above or have any other queries regarding this, please contact us.
Submission Deadline
The deadline to submit your proof of identity is Wednesday 12 February 2025.
As per your Offer Letter, we require proof of any grades you included on your UCAS application under the "Qualifications Completed" section (this includes IELTS or TOEFL). Proof should be in the form of scans/copies of official certificates. If you have not already submitted these, please do so via the form below.
Sending documentation
Before sending us copies of your certificates, please combine your files into one PDF document and label it in the following format:
LastName_FirstName_UCAS PID_Certificates
Once you have labelled the document correctly, please upload it here: Certificate Submission Form
AP, SAT and ACT Scores
AP, SAT and ACT scores must be shared with us through College Board or ACT. You must request access for the University of Cambridge and then let us know when you have done so. The College Board code for the University is 7181.
Submission Deadline
The deadline to submit your certificates is Wednesday 12 February 2025.
If you are not from a majority English speaking country (as defined by the UK Home Office), your English language skills must be good enough for you to study a University of Cambridge course. Your skills will have been assessed as part of the admissions process and, where required, offers may include an English language condition. If the condition includes an approved English language test (most commonly IELTS or TOEFL):
- these tests are usually only valid for two years from the date of the exam
- the results should still be valid on 1 October the year you start your course
- the component scores should normally be achieved in a single sitting of the test (except for IELTS one-skill retake).
If you have already taken IELTS or TOEFL but this has been included in your offer conditions, it may be that your scores will no longer be valid by the time you start your course, or your scores are not at the required level.
As detailed in your offer letter, the College needs to know about your Student Finances. Please use the form below to let us know whether or not you are applying for support.
Finance Options
- If you are not applying for financial support, or are applying for deferred entry, please submit the form now.
- If you are applying for financial support, please submit the form once your loan application has been approved. You will be required to submit evidence of approval as part of the form.
Submission Deadline
The deadline to submit your Student Finance Support Form is Tuesday 1 July 2025. If your application is delayed, please let us know before the deadline.
Having issues with applying for Student Finance?
If you are having trouble finding the correct course on Student Finance, please note that on the drop down menu you must select ‘Girton College – University of Cambridge’ and then find your Undergraduate course. You should not select ‘University of Cambridge – Girton College’ as this will only show you Postgraduate courses.
If you contact Student Finance, they may tell you to contact us (Girton College). Please do not do this until you have followed the above steps.
International students are required to submit a Financial Guarantee and this will be included in your offer conditions. We will send you the relevant form shortly after you receive the decision on your application.
You are required to submit your form, via email, by Wednesday 30 April 2025.
If your offer is for Medical Sciences, your offer conditions will include an enhanced criminal record check (also known as a DBS check). You will be contacted by the University's Student Registry with information on how to complete a DBS check in the Spring. A receipt of a DBS check must be sent to the Student Registry by 31 August 2025. Further information about this is available on the University website.
The University of Cambridge is committed to the principle that no UK student should be deterred from studying at Cambridge because of financial difficulties, so the College and University offer generous bursaries of up to £3,500 a year depending on household income. Information on how the scheme works can be found below.
The Cambridge Commonwealth European and International Trust is a charity established with the sole purpose of providing support to international students to enable them to benefit from the educational and research opportunities offered at the University of Cambridge. We will send you the application form shortly after you receive the decision on your application.
Please find below a copy of the Undergraduate Terms of Admission sent to you with your offer letter, as well as links to the important documents referred to in the Annex of that document.
You are strongly advised to read the Terms of Admission and all of the important documents carefully before you take up your offer.
Please note that the documents are subject to change prior to you joining Cambridge and you are advised to re-read the documents nearer the point of admission.
The College and the University work together to offer the maximum possible support to all disabled students. Now that you have received an offer (whether conditional or unconditional), we would like to give you a further opportunity to let us know if you have a disability and if you will require any support or advice when you come up to Cambridge.*
Some prospective students are reluctant to disclose a disability as they fear that it may be viewed negatively. We would like to assure you that the disclosure of a disability will in no way adversely affect your offer (although the offer may, of course, still be subject to other conditions, such as academic achievement).
The earlier that we are aware of any disability, the better we are able to ensure that all the arrangements you require are in place before you start here (eg study skills support, suitable accommodation and exam access arrangements). You may also find that you are eligible for Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) or other available funding to support your requirements.
Like all the Colleges at Cambridge, we work in close cooperation with the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre (ADRC). Their dedicated team of experts provide support, advice and guidance for students. With your permission, our College staff can liaise with them to create a support plan that meets your requirements. If you would like to discuss any of this further with a member of the ADRC Team, then either phone +44 (0)1223 332301 to speak to one of their Disability Advisers, or email disability@admin.cam.ac.uk.
We strongly recommend that you inform both us and the ADRC if you have any disability.* To do this, please complete the Disability Disclosure Form at: http://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk//student-information-form.
Please also tick the consent box to give the ADRC permission to send a copy of the form to the College. Upon receipt of this form online, the ADRC will send you an email with further important information for disabled students. Information is also available on the ADRC website at: https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/
*If you have already disclosed your disability as part of your application you do not need to return the form.
If you are holding an offer for Mathematics, take a look at the University's STEP Support Programme
Dear Offer Holder,
First of all, congratulations on being offered a place at Girton College! I have no doubt that, when you come here, you will find it to be a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community where you will very quickly feel at home.
I am the Director of Chapel Music at Girton and part of my job is making sure that offer-holders know we are on the lookout for new singers to join our chapel choir for the forthcoming academic year. One way to join is through the University's official choral awards scheme, to which you can apply here: Choral Awards. You can also find further details in the letter below:
Choral Awards Scheme Letter to Undergraduate Offer Holders
Please note the Choral Awards application deadline is 15 February 2025.
You can, however, contact me at any time between now and when you arrive to talk about the possibility of your joining us, although I'd love to hear from you sooner rather than later!
Girton choir is now one of the best mixed-voice chapel choirs in Cambridge with a rapidly growing profile. We undertake at least one international tour each year, having recently been in Spain (2024), Italy (2023), Germany & Austria (2022), Singapore (2019), Israel & Palestine (2018), Portugal (2017), Canada (2016), and Hong Kong (2015), and make weekend visits to major British cathedrals (most recently to Lichfield, Peterborough, Coventry, St Edmundsbury, Gloucester, Salisbury, and St Paul's cathedrals). In 2021, due to COVID-19, we undertook a domestic summer tour, visiting venues in Cambridge, Ely, and London.
In addition to Radio broadcasts (our most recent one being Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 on 29 December 2024), we have made a commercial CD recording each year. These are released internationally to great critical acclaim; our most recent recording reached the Top Ten of the worldwide classical charts in April 2024 and were nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2021. In January 2023, BBC Radio 3 broadcast an hour-long retrospective of our recordings and the Millenium of Music Radio show is broadcasting a series on each of our recordings in the USA, reaching over 150 networks. You can listen to the full recordings here: TOCCATA Classics - Girton
The choir sings two (occasionally three) services per week, but the workload is divided so that the average time commitment is five hours per week (with an occasional maximum of seven). There are around twenty-four singers in the choir each year and our social ethos is strong, relaxed, and friendly. You can learn about what we do on a week-by-week basis through our pages on Facebook (The Chapel Choir of Girton College, Cambridge - UK) and Instagram (girtoncollegechoir), and our recordings can be heard on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, etc.
Please feel free to contact me at any time (gw377@cam.ac.uk), and do let me know if you’d like to meet online at any point to arrange an informal chat about singing in the choir.
I'll look forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
Gareth Wilson,
Director of Chapel Music,
Girton College,
Cambridge
The University Instrumental awards are intended for advanced players who wish to devote much of their free time to chamber music. Candidates audition in the week before starting their course (i.e., after they have been awarded a place at Cambridge) and, if successful, they are placed in a chamber group which has access to coaching from some of the foremost musicians in the country. Full details of these awards, including how and when to apply, can be found here.