UCL Medicine Applicants 2012

I'd imagine 8/9am-4/5pm?

With a lunch break in the middle, of course!

We think that, but my KCL offer came at 7.30pm, my Imperial Biochem at 10.30pm!!!!

Is it a good thing if you've been invited to interview in December? Or is it meaningless?

Either way, you'll be judged in the interview the same way someone who gets one in March will!

So it means nothing if you get an interview in December?

Nope, the theoretical chances of you getting an offer are the same, but I bet you in practice it differs

...across the cycle it's ~70% offer after interview.... I would guess it would be closer to 80% towards the start of the cycle and close to 60% at the end....just because it is probably fair to say that the people getting interviews at the start of the cycle are the *cleverest* candidates (according to UCL) therefore you would expect them to be decent in interview. This is not saying that those at the end of the cycle will be bad at interview...just saying

How do you know that?

What do you guys think are the main selling points of studying medicine at UCL compared to other unis? Its quite hard to find proper info about their course :/

I don't :P That's why I said *guess*.

But I do know that the offer rate per interview is about 70% (correct me if I am wrong), and I'm just assuming more of the offers proportionally would be given out towards the start of the cycle....minutely more.

I don't :P That's why I said *guess*.

But I do know that the offer rate per interview is about 70% (correct me if I am wrong), and I'm just assuming more of the offers proportionally would be given out towards the start of the cycle....minutely more.

Where did you get 70% from?

Where did you get 70% from?

Shown post above this

And http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Medical_School_Competition_Ratios

As shown, for 2011 it was 1 : 1.3 for interviewsffers = ~70%...or 76% more accurately as shown above.

That's pretty amazing! 70% is a comforting percentage.

Hmmm, that's interesting. The science question could be a problem, I hope that doesn't mean I'll have to pick up my A-Level text book and start revising that now as well!

UCL only start looking at gap year students in January so I'm VERY annoyed.

What is the point of that can I ask? Gap year students are going to be travelling and going away on trips around the world, why not look at us in December?

They have been interviewing school people in December which is silly because they're here all year round to come to interviews!

Now I have to cancel my whole gap year trip because of this. I just don't see the logic in it!!! I didn't choose to have a gap year, I was forced to because I didn't get in last year, and now I have to hang around for a whole year just to get an interview and hopefully get a place? Applying to medical school sucks!!

then interview school-leavers in february.

School-leavers shouldn't have exams in January because medical students should NOT be allowed to re-take, and schools should NOT allow students to sit half their modules in January and half in June - ridiculously unfair scenario!!

The proper way to get good A-levels in a fair way to get into medical school is to do all your modules in June, otherwise in my eyes its cheating because its way easier to deal with your exams half and half.

So if UCL want the best med students they should interview gap year students before december so they can do something productive with their year off, and then interview school-leavers in jan/feb/march - if they can't deal with exams and interviews then they can't deal with the stress of being a doctor.