Applicants 2024-5

Welcome to the Applicants 2024-5 web page! The information on this page is for those applying in October 2024 for entry in 2025 or 2026. Please read it carefully and make sure you have followed any instructions that are relevant to you. Use the quick links below to jump to each section:

• Rough Guide to Admissions
• My Cambridge Application
• Extenuating Circumstances
• Submission of Written Work
• Submission of Portfolio (Architecture Applicants)
• Adjustments for Disability, Neurodiverse Condition, etc.
• Access to Technology at Interview
• College-Registered Assessments
• Proposed Interview Dates
• Pre-Interview Reading
• Post-Interview Decisions

My Cambridge Application

Shortly after submitting your UCAS application, you’ll be asked via email to complete a further online form called My Cambridge Application. To make a valid application to the University of Cambridge, you must submit My Cambridge Application by the required deadline, which is 18:00 (UK time) on 22 October.

Submission of Written Work

The following subjects require samples of written work to be submitted as part of the application process:

• Anglo Saxon, Norse & Celtic
• Archaeology
• Architecture (portfolio) – see below
• Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (only if you have chosen a European language)
• Classics
• English
• History
• History & Modern Languages
• History & Politics
• Human, Social & Political Sciences
• Land Economy
• Modern & Medieval Languages
• Music
• Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Please read the Submission of Written Work guide to see if this applies to your course, and follow the instructions given. Please remember to include the Cover Sheet with each essay. Written work must be sent to Trinity Hall Admissions Office by Monday 4 November using the online Admissions Documents Upload form.

Adjustments for Disability, Neurodiverse Condition, etc

We wish to ensure that, wherever possible, if you have any disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or long-term health condition we make appropriate adjustments if you are invited for interview. We also wish to ensure that your interviewers are aware of any information that may be relevant in the context of your interview, Cambridge College registered written assessment or pre-interview reading/written tasks.

To enable the College to do this, if you have disclosed any disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or long-term health condition as part of your UCAS application then you must complete and submit the online Adjustments Form by no later than 22 October. (If you have disclosed a disability or condition at UCAS and do not require adjustments, please complete the form to confirm that.)

If you have a disability, neurodiverse condition, mental health condition or long-term health condition which was not disclosed at UCAS but you would now like to make us aware of because you require adjustments, you must also complete and return the online Adjustments Form by no later than 22 October. We are aware that some prospective applicants are reluctant to disclose a disability, but we would like to reassure you that the disclosure of a disability will in no way adversely affect the assessment of your application.

If a completed form is not received, then the College will assume that you do not require any adjustments if invited for interview and none will be made, similarly if a completed form is returned after the deadline, then the College cannot guarantee that it will be possible to make the required adjustments in the time available before interview.

College-Registered Assessments

Applicants for the following courses are required to take a written assessment if shortlisted for interview. These will be held separately and in advance of the interviews (apart from Classics, where the assessment happens at interview). They will be conducted remotely. You will not need to register for these assessments in advance, as we will make all the arrangements for you. We will send full details and instructions nearer the time, but for now here are the dates:

Proposed Interview Dates

The main interview period at Trinity Hall will be from 4-18 December, and all interviews will be online. Proposed dates, where available, are given below for each subject. We will fill in the blanks as we get more information and we may revise the dates slightly for some subjects.

Interview invitations will be sent by email during mid-late November. We will also inform applicants if we are not selecting them for interview. We will update this table to let you know when interview invitations have gone out for each subject.

Post-Interview Decisions

All decisions will be communicated via UCAS on Thursday 30 January.

In a very small minority of cases, where a College wishes to call an applicant for a Winter Pool interview, these applicants may be contacted earlier (from 16 January onwards) to make interview arrangements. Contact will be made by email and/or by telephone.