If you’re expecting exam results and you’re holding a conditional offer from the University of Cambridge for 2024 entry, check the guidance below for what will happen next.
Students holding conditional offers for 2024
If you meet or exceed all the conditions of your offer
In most cases you won’t need to do anything.
We will be made aware of your A Level (or equivalent) results directly via UCAS, and your place will be confirmed. Your status will update on your UCAS Hub and you’ll soon receive an email with further details.
If we don’t receive your results directly via UCAS, then your Cambridge College should inform you where to send your results when they are received.
Please don’t call us for updates on your application. In the meantime, take a look at our information for new students.
If you don’t quite meet the offer
In these circumstances, we'll need to know exactly how close you were to meeting your offer.
Where results are received directly via UCAS, they only provides us with your examination grades. Please send the relevant College details of your performance as soon as possible. This should be in the form of a scanned copy of your statement of results for each examination.
There may be a few spaces available at the College you applied to or at another College, depending on the number of students who have met their offers.
Please be patient. Your College will contact you as soon as possible and you can check the status of your application on your UCAS Hub.
Please do not call the College or University for updates on your application. The Hub will be updated as soon as possible once a final decision is made.
If your grades are substantially lower than those required by your offer
Unless there are special circumstances to consider, your application to Cambridge will have been unsuccessful. Hopefully, you’ll have made the grades for your insurance offer.
Your status will be updated on your UCAS Hub so that you can take up your insurance place or enter Clearing. We don't enter Clearing, so there will be no course vacancies at the University through Clearing.
If you don't receive all of your results
We know that sometimes there are processing problems and your Cambridge College may already be aware that you’re missing a particular result.
Please contact your Cambridge College as soon as you’ve received your missing results.
What to do if we have invited you to apply for reconsideration
You might be eligible to have your application reconsidered if we told you about our August Reconsideration Pool in your decision letter or email in January. Some places will be available for selected students on courses that have space for October 2024.
For further information, see August Reconsideration Pool.
No Clearing vacancies
The University of Cambridge does not enter Clearing. We have no course vacancies available through Clearing.
Further information about Clearing is available from the UCAS website.