Year 12s: what will be the first way you research your future options? >>

Birmingham Or Liverpool?

any advice on choosing between applying to liverpool or birmingham? i want to apply to where i am likely to get in. (i am also applying to cardiff, bristol, kings college uni of london, - kins and cardiff look at ukcat, bristol doesn't, my overall average for ukcat was 525.. very bad)

both liverpool and bham dont look at UKCAT.
the difference is that bham specifies they want AA in bio and chem (AAB overall), liverpool just says AAB overall

also does anyone know how many places each uni has and how many applications they get? i've seen these details written in kings college's prospectus but i cant find this information anywhere for liverpool or bham

any advice on choosing one of these two would be useful as i really don't know, i want to stay close to home (london) but i've heard liverpool is easier to get into, also bham seems to have high standards!

abu.10

you won't get into bham, not enough A*'s at GCSE

For the last F***** time! Birmingham require some absurd amount of A* for MEDICINE ONLY. Do your research before giving people false hope ! :mad:

Reply 3

abu.10

Andy Conda

For the last F***** time! Birmingham require some absurd amount of A* for MEDICINE ONLY. Do your research before giving people false hope ! :mad:

sorry i thought he wanted to do med... cause he never mentions dentistry in his thread and the thread came up in the "recent thread" section so did not notice.

Reply 4

MAINMAN07

haha..bham give out more offers than liverpool...i can assure you liverpool aint easy to get into..they are very strict about gcse's and work experieince

Reply 5

achibachi

MAINMAN07

haha..bham give out more offers than liverpool...i can assure you liverpool aint easy to get into..they are very strict about gcse's and work experieince

they r both veyr similar in competition and have very very similar requirements
including same grade requirements... AAB and AA in bio and Chem!

Reply 6

regis

I would personally say birmingham (not because I am applying there) but because I hear Liverpool has a lot of pbl in its course and is something which I dont find very appealing however you might find it something you would like. I would suggest going to their open days to see the campuses and think of which one you would be better suited to. Good luck in your choices and UCAS application etc

Reply 7

a1000b

ooh i had decided on liverpool, but now i'm confused, everyone's replies seem to be towards birmingham! I don't like the pbl system at liverpool either, but i just want to get into dentistry somewhere!

Reply 8

a1000b

MAINMAN07

haha..bham give out more offers than liverpool...i can assure you liverpool aint easy to get into..they are very strict about gcse's and work experieince

my GCSE's aren't bad! .. and i've got 20 days of work experience in 3 areas of dentistry. how do you know bham gives more offers? how many do liverpool give and how many do bham give?

Reply 9

a1000b

achibachi

they r both veyr similar in competition and have very very similar requirements
including same grade requirements... AAB and AA in bio and Chem!

if they're both very similar then i'll apply to liverpool and go with my instinct!

Reply 10

a1000b

loll i ended up applyin to bham because they're closer to home.. and now i've got an interview (my only interview so far) on the 9th of december :biggrin:

.. wasn't that lucky!