Year of Entry: 2006
Deferred?: no
GCSEs: 9A*s, 2As
AS Grades: AAAAA (Bio, Chem, Maths, F. Maths, Psychology self taught)
A2 Prediction/Results: AAAAb (not psych, plus AS french for fun)
UKCAT (if applicable): N/A
Work Experience/Volunteering: 1 year volunteer on dialysis unit, one year volunteer on orthopaedics ward, medisix, 2 weeks GP practice, including practice nurse, physio, occupational health shadowing, reception work, helped organise a medical ethics day to chat to some very special people.
Extra Curricular: Cello, debating, DoE, sixth form treasurer + council member, knitting (I swear this got me into Notts, and my PhD!), exchange to Czech to teach kids english, taught myself my psychology AS for fun (I swear this got me my interviews/place at the 3 PBL unis), piano, orchestra, school plays, dressmaking, some other stuff came up at interview I can't remember.
Universities applied to and decisions:
Edinburgh: AAB to include chemistry and biology
Notts: AAB to include chemistry and biology
Liverpool: AAB to include chemistry, biology and maths
Manc: Rejected after interview (2 days after my boyfriend dumped me - he gets the blame!! No feedback, it was a terrible interview so didn't seem necessary, plus I had the liverpool offer very early, my ethical debate was about someone from corrie's undiagnosed cancer when I've never seen the programme. My request to change topic was thoroughly ignored.)
Edit: To echo Lostphotobooth, even though I spent all this time doing work experience and volunteering, it took me until the beginning of my intercalated year to realise medicine just isn't for me. I appreciate that if you are as stubborn as I was, you'll ignore this, but i feel I have to stress how important it is to see work experience as a chance for you to figure out if medicine is what you want to do, not just a way to get into medical school!