Just to prevent any confusion about the selection process, I'll summarise it here. Edinburgh give offers based on a points system, then give x number of offers in decending order.
When the application is submitted, the Edinburgh Admissions Office look at it and give:
A maximum of 3 marks for the UKCAT (depending on your quartile).
A maximum of 2 additional achieved' points . "Additional credit (‘achieved points’) for achieved academic results in all qualification frameworks is added by the Admissions Office at the time of entering the scores into the database in recognition of the greater strength of achieved results."
It is then passed to 2 assesors for scoring. Each one does a separate score
A maximum of 7 Academic Points are given ( 6 for Grades and 1 Bonus point).
To get the bonus point, there must be "evidence of outstanding academic flair and creativity not recognised by the 'examination' guidelines. It is suggested that this point should not be allocated to more than 10% of the applicant pool."
A maximum of 9 Non-Academic points ( Personal Qualities, Non-Academic Achievement, and Career Exploration).
So 5 Points from the admissions office + a max of 16 from 2 assessors = a total of 37 points. (Offers are supposedly given around the 30 mark, but I'm not sure).
UKCAT becomes important again when multiple people have the same score, and they are then ranked in UKCAT order.
My source is the Edinburgh Admissions Handbook which gives this in much, much more detail
http://docstore.mvm.ed.ac.uk/Policie...e/Handbook.pdf.