Imperial College Medicine Applicants 2012

Hi I found an article about Imperial's admissions process. I don't know if it is true.. it states:


"Let’s imagine that you and I are two Medical applicants applying to Imperial College, London. You have 10A*s at GCSE, predicted 4A*s at A-level, months of caring work experience. But unfortunately you slightly underperformed at BMAT, scoring just below Imperial’s cut-off score for in section 1 whilst doing well in the other two sections (eg 4.6, 6.5, 4A) . Now lets say I had 3A*s, 5As and a B at GCSE, predicted 4As at A-level and one week of caring work experience. I on the other hand get a relatively average BMAT score which just about satisfies Imperial’s cut-off scores in each section (eg 5.0, 5.0, 2.5C). As unfair as this sounds, you are almost guaranteed to be rejected without interview, whilst I am almost guaranteed to be called for interview. It’s obvious that you have worked a lot harder than I have and that you are more committed to the vocation, however the person who wins in this situation is simply the one who has been consistent in BMAT. When selecting candidates for interview, it’s not really about carefully considering each application to select the candidates with the most potential, It’s pretty much about finding an efficient way to cut numbers. "


Is that true?? I found it on this place called themess.info

Hi I found an article about Imperial's admissions process. I don't know if it is true.. it states:


"Let’s imagine that you and I are two Medical applicants applying to Imperial College, London. You have 10A*s at GCSE, predicted 4A*s at A-level, months of caring work experience. But unfortunately you slightly underperformed at BMAT, scoring just below Imperial’s cut-off score for in section 1 whilst doing well in the other two sections (eg 4.6, 6.5, 4A) . Now lets say I had 3A*s, 5As and a B at GCSE, predicted 4As at A-level and one week of caring work experience. I on the other hand get a relatively average BMAT score which just about satisfies Imperial’s cut-off scores in each section (eg 5.0, 5.0, 2.5C). As unfair as this sounds, you are almost guaranteed to be rejected without interview, whilst I am almost guaranteed to be called for interview. It’s obvious that you have worked a lot harder than I have and that you are more committed to the vocation, however the person who wins in this situation is simply the one who has been consistent in BMAT. When selecting candidates for interview, it’s not really about carefully considering each application to select the candidates with the most potential, It’s pretty much about finding an efficient way to cut numbers. "


Is that true?? I found it on this place called themess.info

Hi I found an article about Imperial's admissions process. I don't know if it is true.. it states:


"Let’s imagine that you and I are two Medical applicants applying to Imperial College, London. You have 10A*s at GCSE, predicted 4A*s at A-level, months of caring work experience. But unfortunately you slightly underperformed at BMAT, scoring just below Imperial’s cut-off score for in section 1 whilst doing well in the other two sections (eg 4.6, 6.5, 4A) . Now lets say I had 3A*s, 5As and a B at GCSE, predicted 4As at A-level and one week of caring work experience. I on the other hand get a relatively average BMAT score which just about satisfies Imperial’s cut-off scores in each section (eg 5.0, 5.0, 2.5C). As unfair as this sounds, you are almost guaranteed to be rejected without interview, whilst I am almost guaranteed to be called for interview. It’s obvious that you have worked a lot harder than I have and that you are more committed to the vocation, however the person who wins in this situation is simply the one who has been consistent in BMAT. When selecting candidates for interview, it’s not really about carefully considering each application to select the candidates with the most potential, It’s pretty much about finding an efficient way to cut numbers. "


Is that true?? I found it on this place called themess.info

Hi I found an article about Imperial's admissions process. I don't know if it is true.. it states:


"Let’s imagine that you and I are two Medical applicants applying to Imperial College, London. You have 10A*s at GCSE, predicted 4A*s at A-level, months of caring work experience. But unfortunately you slightly underperformed at BMAT, scoring just below Imperial’s cut-off score for in section 1 whilst doing well in the other two sections (eg 4.6, 6.5, 4A) . Now lets say I had 3A*s, 5As and a B at GCSE, predicted 4As at A-level and one week of caring work experience. I on the other hand get a relatively average BMAT score which just about satisfies Imperial’s cut-off scores in each section (eg 5.0, 5.0, 2.5C). As unfair as this sounds, you are almost guaranteed to be rejected without interview, whilst I am almost guaranteed to be called for interview. It’s obvious that you have worked a lot harder than I have and that you are more committed to the vocation, however the person who wins in this situation is simply the one who has been consistent in BMAT. When selecting candidates for interview, it’s not really about carefully considering each application to select the candidates with the most potential, It’s pretty much about finding an efficient way to cut numbers. "


Is that true?? I found it on this place called themess.info

This thread needs a resuscitation.

So who's excited for freshers week? Or living in London? Or anything to do with Imperial and medicine?

Definitely excited for living in London. Got gig tickets already :-)

Definitely excited for living in London. Got gig tickets already :-)

Wow, that is eager! What are the tickets for?

Who you seeing man, I might tag along :P?

Alice Cooper and Nightwish

Has anyone sent their essay for the scholarship yet?

No, not yet.

Still writing mine. Week and a half till the deadline, so still a fair bit of time to go yet.



Edit: Neg? Next time I won't answer a question then.

I don't know why you got neg for that. I'm in the same boat, struggling with full time work though. I think I'll be running right up to the deadline

Yeah. Fortunately it's not the longest thing we'll ever have to write, but every time I write something I think to myself 'No...that sounds pathetic,' so I'd say I've been 'scratching around' a fair bit.

Best of luck to you.

I don't know why you got neg for that. I'm in the same boat, struggling with full time work though. I think I'll be running right up to the deadline