2013 Medicine Re-Applicants

Original post by Rammiejimjams

Hi guys, fellow reapplicant offer holder over here!! :biggrin:

Is it worth putting/is anyone putting an insurance choice down on ucas? ... (Just a bit paranoid :tongue:

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you might aswell, just incase anything goes wrong (which it wont :wink:

) but theres no hurt in playing it safe :smile:

if there both conditional which i assume they are on the basis you have health form and CRB to fill in then put one as insurance if youre lucky enough to have 2 offers!

Original post by jasqur

I don't think ucas lets you if your offers are unconditional

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most are conditional, even for those with grades due to CRB and Health questionnaire :biggrin:

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Original post by Nandos94

So that is it. UCAS 2013 Cycle for me is over. So much better than last year. Somehow I got 4 offers! Over the moon. It's great to hear everyone else getting offers here too. Hope the ones that haven't got any so far, get some! We all deserve it! :biggrin:

WOW! well done! are you going to be joining me at manchester? :wink:

or have you not decided yet where youre going?!

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Original post by J1994D

WOW! well done! are you going to be joining me at manchester? :wink:

or have you not decided yet where youre going?!

I'm afraid not :P I think I'll probably firm Edinburgh or Newcastle. Leaning more to Edinburgh though. I'll have a final think tonight!

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Original post by Nandos94

I'm afraid not :P I think I'll probably firm Edinburgh or Newcastle. Leaning more to Edinburgh though. I'll have a final think tonight!

must be hard with all that choice! id just flip a coin

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Finally got an offer :biggrin:

After 8 applications, a gap year and 7 rejections I can't quite believe that I've actually done it :biggrin:

Anyone who got 4 rejections and is thinking about taking a gap year- just do it- it's an amazing experience and it'll make the offers all the more sweeter when they do come :biggrin:

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Original post by Ingenting

Finally got an offer :biggrin:

After 8 applications, a gap year and 7 rejections I can't quite believe that I've actually done it :biggrin:

Anyone who got 4 rejections and is thinking about taking a gap year- just do it- it's an amazing experience and it'll make the offers all the more sweeter when they do come :biggrin:

CONGRATS!

so many of us gappers have got offers!

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manupalace

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Original post by Ingenting

Finally got an offer :biggrin:

After 8 applications, a gap year and 7 rejections I can't quite believe that I've actually done it :biggrin:

Anyone who got 4 rejections and is thinking about taking a gap year- just do it- it's an amazing experience and it'll make the offers all the more sweeter when they do come :biggrin:

Congrats!! Us reapplicants are doing amazingly this year!

On a slightly less happy note got a Barts rejection today, but if I'm honest there wasn't a gat chance of me firming it over ,y current offers anyway. I just need to think of how I would have felt at the start of the cycle if someone had told me I'd have 2 offers.

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Original post by J1994D

CONGRATS!

so many of us gappers have got offers!

Thanks!

I can't believe that a year ago I'd been rejected by all 4 unis and was considering doing a different degree- now to have an offer is just an amazing feeling :biggrin:

Best decision I ever made! Well done on your offer- I haven't really been looking at this thread much lately- I was starting to feel a bit jealous at all the people getting offers :colondollar:

and despairing that I'd never get one.

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Original post by manupalace

Congrats!! Us reapplicants are doing amazingly this year!

On a slightly less happy note got a Barts rejection today, but if I'm honest there wasn't a gat chance of me firming it over ,y current offers anyway. I just need to think of how I would have felt at the start of the cycle if someone had told me I'd have 2 offers.

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Thanks, and congrats on your offers :smile:

Ah well- at least we've got offers this year, so I'm not complaining :tongue:

And yeah, I don't think I'd have believed anyone that told me that this year I'd have an offer at my first choice uni. Where are your offers from?

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manupalace

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Original post by Ingenting

Thanks, and congrats on your offers :smile:

Ah well- at least we've got offers this year, so I'm not complaining :tongue:

And yeah, I don't think I'd have believed anyone that told me that this year I'd have an offer at my first choice uni. Where are your offers from?

Wow, that's even better! and its unconditional so no need for an insurance choice!

Thanks :smile:

I have offers from St George's and Imperial for their GEP courses :smile:

If someone had told me this time last year (after my disastrous UKCAT and my disastrous MMI at St George's) that I'd have offers from St George's and Imperial I wouldn't have believed them, I'd probably have just laughed.

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fuzzycat

Original post by Ingenting

Finally got an offer :biggrin:

After 8 applications, a gap year and 7 rejections I can't quite believe that I've actually done it :biggrin:

Anyone who got 4 rejections and is thinking about taking a gap year- just do it- it's an amazing experience and it'll make the offers all the more sweeter when they do come :biggrin:

Congratulations to you!!! Where was the offer from - there's hope for the rest of us maybe, am still waiting on my last two universities now, am keeping everything crossed :smile:

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Original post by manupalace

Wow, that's even better! and its unconditional so no need for an insurance choice!

Thanks :smile:

I have offers from St George's and Imperial for their GEP courses :smile:

If someone had told me this time last year (after my disastrous UKCAT and my disastrous MMI at St George's) that I'd have offers from St George's and Imperial I wouldn't have believed them, I'd probably have just laughed.

Your offers were for GEP though, and you get to choose! Getting my first choice though (over both years)- I think about it every so often and just can't quite believe it. It's sort of unconditional- only conditions are that I send them certificates/CRB/health forms.

This was my last decision as well- after two pre-interview rejections and an absolute car crash of an interview this year I was pretty much resigned to getting four rejections again, so this is just amazing news :biggrin:

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Original post by fuzzycat

Congratulations to you!!! Where was the offer from - there's hope for the rest of us maybe, am still waiting on my last two universities now, am keeping everything crossed :smile:

Thanks, my offer was from Newcastle :smile:

Where are you still waiting to hear from? Don't give up hope yet- two applications is half your application, so you're definitely in with a shot of getting an offer :smile:

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fuzzycat

Original post by Ingenting

Thanks, my offer was from Newcastle :smile:

Where are you still waiting to hear from? Don't give up hope yet- two applications is half your application, so you're definitely in with a shot of getting an offer :smile:

Thanks for the boost :smile:

Waiting for BSMS and Liverpool. And congrats again, you'll love Newcastle I'm sure.

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TattyBoJangles

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Hey guys (:

On Friday, I'm going in to my old secondary school to have a chat with the current Yr12s who are thinking about applying for Medicine.

I have printed off an 'easy-access guide' to all of the medical schools' entry requirements (and what they don't necessarily make clear in their prospectuses), but I was wondering if anyone had any 'oh I wish I'd been told that..' sort of thing.
I can obviously give them my own experiences (e.g., looking back, I know now that I was naive and didn't apply to my strengths. In my first personal statement, my work experience was pretty much just a list and not enough reflection) but was wondering if anyone else had anything they wish they'd been told?

I'm probably going to go in for the scare tactics :tongue:

but I think I should at least try to impart some 'wisdom' upon them.

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Revent

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Original post by TattyBoJangles

Hey guys (:

On Friday, I'm going in to my old secondary school to have a chat with the current Yr12s who are thinking about applying for Medicine.

I have printed off an 'easy-access guide' to all of the medical schools' entry requirements (and what they don't necessarily make clear in their prospectuses), but I was wondering if anyone had any 'oh I wish I'd been told that..' sort of thing.
I can obviously give them my own experiences (e.g., looking back, I know now that I was naive and didn't apply to my strengths. In my first personal statement, my work experience was pretty much just a list and not enough reflection) but was wondering if anyone else had anything they wish they'd been told?

I'm probably going to go in for the scare tactics :tongue:

but I think I should at least try to impart some 'wisdom' upon them.

Teamwork, Leadership, Interpersonal schools, EC's. Giving the UKCAT a lot of emphasis. BMAT=gamble. Perhaps look at my FOI for Bristol for PS content. They're quite detailed :smile:

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