Peninsula Medical School Applicants thread 2012 entry.

Is ABBC at AS and 2 A*'s 3A's, 6B's and a Distinction in ICT at GCSE enough to apply to Plymouth Medical School? Has anyone with similar grades got in?
Any help/advice will be much appreciated.

Yes, it's fine. Whether you get an interview would depend on your predicted grades and your UKCAT score.

Hi Myyrh I was just wondering how much do peninsula (exeter and plymouth) and liverpool look at AS results (or is it solely A2 predictions)? Thanks in advance
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Peninsula don't really look at AS with results with the exception of the fourth subject which needs to meet the minimum requirement (C I think). Liverpool does not use the AS results, again with the exception of the fourth subject which needs to be a B grade.

thank god! thank you so so much! do you know about any other medical schools which follow this principle? thanks! x

Newcastle
Durham
Cardiff
Glasgow
Manchester (I think)
They're probably more but you'll have to research their admission policies.

Newcastle
Durham
Cardiff
Glasgow
Manchester (I think)
They're probably more but you'll have to research their admission policies.

Do you know if you have a chance at Peninsula if you already have AAAa? I am wondering who the A*AA offer goes to and if a re applicant has a chance of an interview with the grades above. What do they base their interview selection on (in reality)?

The A*AA offer was meant to be only given to applicants who were predicted those grades but they never went through with that policy in the end (they may do this year). Re applicants used to get interviewed regardless of UKCAT score but apparently people have called up Exeter/Plymouth and this is no longer the case, the UKCAT is apparently still being taken into consideration.
In reality it was solely on predicted A level grades and UKCAT score.

So an AAAa with a 690 UKCAT and 8 A*s/2A's - has a good chance of an interview at peninsula? do not want to make the mistake of last year with only 1 offer from birmingham (which i missed the A* offer by 1 UMS mark and they absolutely refused even to talk to me) - was going to apply to liverpool - except someone said they do not like gap students. Thinking and thinking which university will offer an interview - would be happy with any!

Pretty much guaranteed (provided you meet the individual UKCAT sub section cut-offs which are around mid 500s but this does change). Who ever told you that about Liverpool is talking absolute rubbish, however applying to them will not be as safe as a medical school which selects applicants purely on the basis of UKCAT because of the whole subjectivity surrounding scoring personal statements.

So an AAAa with a 690 UKCAT and 8 A*s/2A's - has a good chance of an interview at peninsula?

Anyone heard anything about the enrolment packs we were supposed to receive?

I got an enrolment email..

Haha, enjoy that working that one out!

It's actually a joke..
but I've finally enroled and got my first uni email lol

It's funny how we practically have no information about what will happen next week..
Plymouth medsoc has fully functioning website with a fresher's timetable
I can't find anything about what's going on with us exeter lot

It's actually a joke..
but I've finally enroled and got my first uni email lol

It's funny how we practically have no information about what will happen next week..
Plymouth medsoc has fully functioning website with a fresher's timetable
I can't find anything about what's going on with us exeter lot

I can't find anything about what's going on with us exeter lot