Is it worth coming to a University of Reading offer holder day?

Hello!
Choosing a university is a major milestone, and it’s completely natural to feel overwhelmed while balancing exam revision with big life decisions. Offer Holder Days are designed to cut through that stress, offering a hands-on look at campus life that you just can't get from a prospectus.
Offer holder days (sometimes called Applicant Discovery Days) are exclusive events for students who have already received a conditional or unconditional offer from a university. This allows you to speak to staff and see how the university runs for a day.
By participating in interactive sessions and engaging directly with our faculty and student body, you’ll gain a genuine sense of our daily culture and community. To give you a clearer picture, some of our students are sharing their personal highlights from their visit days below.
More information can be found here: Undergraduate Offer Holder Days, and General Open Days and visiting.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
All the best,
Ella 😀
BSc Ecology

Hi All!
There is a great, detailed blog written by Sid.
The blog can be found here.
All the best,
Ella
BSc Ecology

Hello! Do you have any information around the Global Sustainability Leader Scholarship? It’s so new that I can’t find anything really online about it, but have been invited to apply…. Really interested!

Hi,
It’s great that you’ve been invited to apply for our brand new and exciting Global Sustainability Leaders Scholarship here at the University of Reading.
This scholarship offers not only industry-standard and exclusive education, as well as funding of up to £6,000 per year for the duration of your course, which you do not have to pay back! (free money!)
You can find more information here:
https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/fees-and-funding/global-sustainability-leaders-scholarship
To be eligible for the scholarship, you must:
• Be a UK or international fee-paying student holding an offer for a University of Reading undergraduate programme, entering either a Home Foundation Year or Year 1 in 2026/27
• Achieve grades AAA or above in your A-levels (or equivalent qualification), or AAB for students eligible for a contextual offer
• Successfully complete the scholarship application process for this scheme
As you have received an invitation, please make sure to check that email carefully, as it will answer most of your questions. You are an eligible offer holders if you have received an invitation from the University with full details of the scheme and guidance on how to apply.
Applications will be considered in three tranches:
• Tranche 1 deadline: 23:59 on 20 March 2026
• Tranche 2 deadline: 23:59 on 12 June 2026
• Tranche 3 deadline: 23:59 on 3 September 2026
If you still need help, you can email: [email protected]
Kind Regards,
Sid
- UoR Student Ambassador
- LLB Law w/ International Business (Yr1)
- Business Management (Foundation)
my working day is: thursday

Hi Sid,
I’m more just looking for real world experiences or thoughts as theres no feedback anywhere I can find! As i’ll be studying Speech and Language, not environmental anything, curious on what the crossover there looks like? I enjoy the environment (of course) and would love to learn more but cant say I’m the most knowledgeable at this point 😅

Hi yep some of my friends are on the scheme and it’s great! You don’t have to be studying environmental science at all, it’s just about your drive to make positive and impactful change, you could say a crossover could be that you will learn about we communicate environmental action to everyone and how we can build positive change with everyone included across languages

Ahh thank you so much for that suggestion! Really helpful. I’m glad that your friends are enjoying it - seems too good of an opportunity to not apply for!!

Hello!
Choosing a university is a major milestone, and it’s completely natural to feel overwhelmed while balancing exam revision with big life decisions. Offer Holder Days are designed to cut through that stress, offering a hands-on look at campus life that you just can't get from a prospectus.
Offer holder days (sometimes called Applicant Discovery Days) are exclusive events for students who have already received a conditional or unconditional offer from a university. This allows you to speak to staff and see how the university runs for a day.
By participating in interactive sessions and engaging directly with our faculty and student body, you’ll gain a genuine sense of our daily culture and community. To give you a clearer picture, some of our students are sharing their personal highlights from their visit days below.
More information can be found here: Undergraduate Offer Holder Days, and General Open Days and visiting.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
All the best,
Ella 😀
BSc Ecology

Hello!
Choosing a university is a major milestone, and it’s completely natural to feel overwhelmed while balancing exam revision with big life decisions. Offer Holder Days are designed to cut through that stress, offering a hands-on look at campus life that you just can't get from a prospectus.
Offer holder days (sometimes called Applicant Discovery Days) are exclusive events for students who have already received a conditional or unconditional offer from a university. This allows you to speak to staff and see how the university runs for a day.
By participating in interactive sessions and engaging directly with our faculty and student body, you’ll gain a genuine sense of our daily culture and community. To give you a clearer picture, some of our students are sharing their personal highlights from their visit days below.
More information can be found here: Undergraduate Offer Holder Days, and General Open Days and visiting.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
All the best,
Ella 😀
BSc Ecology