Medicine Rejections Discussion Thread 2012 Entry

You've still got 2 chances left so keep your head up! And getting to the interview stage is an achievement in itself anyway considering that with about 2000 applications most uni's only interview about 600! And it's usually more of a 50/50 chance of an offer after interview (from the research i've done) so please don't beat yourself up about it, and as I've said you still have 2 chances left whilst some people already know that they have 4 rejections.. Stay POSITIVE

Got rejected by my first choice in December, took it very well because I was expecting it.

Got rejected by my second choice, and in reality, the place I probably fell in love with, this morning. Took it really badly. I've been very cool, very calm all applications process, I've rarely been worried and if I have I've done well to keep it quiet, but I was really stressed. Got bored in a lesson and checked my emails on my phone, it said go to track, I was anticipating it, that still didn't make it any easier. I was shaking for about 35 minutes, my body temperature dropped massively, I came back for the next lesson in the same classroom and the teacher knew there was something wrong and told me to go get a glass of water. ****, I thought I was composed but this was pretty bad. When I went to the toilet my eyes were all red, though no tears or anything like that. Then all the bad thoughts sort of started coming through, everyone had been hyping me and telling me that I was dead straight in etc, I thought of all the people I'd let down and all of that, it was really bad. I haven't sorted of emotionally disintegrated like that for a long time, it probably did me good. I turned up back to the lesson maybe an hour later and no-one noticed anything, which I was thankful for. Anyways, 2 choices left still. I needed somewhere to vent.

It's worse cos 75% of people get offers after interview, and I was one of the very first interviewed too. Goddamnit.

Got rejected by my first choice in December, took it very well because I was expecting it.

Got rejected by my second choice, and in reality, the place I probably fell in love with, this morning. Took it really badly. I've been very cool, very calm all applications process, I've rarely been worried and if I have I've done well to keep it quiet, but I was really stressed. Got bored in a lesson and checked my emails on my phone, it said go to track, I was anticipating it, that still didn't make it any easier. I was shaking for about 35 minutes, my body temperature dropped massively, I came back for the next lesson in the same classroom and the teacher knew there was something wrong and told me to go get a glass of water. ****, I thought I was composed but this was pretty bad. When I went to the toilet my eyes were all red, though no tears or anything like that. Then all the bad thoughts sort of started coming through, everyone had been hyping me and telling me that I was dead straight in etc, I thought of all the people I'd let down and all of that, it was really bad. I haven't sorted of emotionally disintegrated like that for a long time, it probably did me good. I turned up back to the lesson maybe an hour later and no-one noticed anything, which I was thankful for. Anyways, 2 choices left still. I needed somewhere to vent.

It's worse cos 75% of people get offers after interview, and I was one of the very first interviewed too. Goddamnit.

I felt exactly the same after I was rejected by my first choice post-interview (the whole body temperature and shaking thing). I checked on my phone too. At the time, I was with my mum at one of her friends house and they were all going on about how I'll definitely get an offer and I need to stop worrying. I felt awful cuz I'd just been rejected, though I didn't say anything until like hours later. Went home and had a cry (:/) then told my parents. They kind of made me feel better tho, weren't upset like I thought they'd be. The shock from other family members and friends wasn't very helpful though. I was told I shouldn't waste a year on re-applying and just do something else 'medical related' that's easier to get into. -_-

Ah well, I'll be re-applying now, hopefully next year will turn out better.

Best of luck, you still have 2 more choices and you've had an interview from one of them, really hope you get an offer.

Wow, there are so many parallels; earlier that morning everyone had been telling me that I'd get in even though I doubted it. As for the shaking/getting cold thing, it was like somebody had suddenly dropped me into Antarctica without a coat. I've been reading your blog, you seem like a great person, best of luck to you too

just because youve had a rejection doesnt mean you wont be a good doctor or that youll never get in, it just means that youve got to up your game and learn the rules, because it is just a game really! an annoying, stressful, terrifying one, though.

hey......cheer up........i wanted to do medicine...........but there so many other things out there........Ive applied uni 4 the 1st time this yr for automotive engineering and ive received offers.............but wt im trying to say is becoming a doctor is not the only respected job..............i kno its wht u want to do............but getting into a different course and doing masters and doing a pHD is fabulous.......im sure u kno but a pHD is well worth goin 4 if u r goin for another course........

plus u kno u can gt into medicine after doing a year of biomed/biochem if u get 1st or smetin like tht in the first year........if u do not u wud have to do the full 3/4years of biomed n then u can try 4 med again........but my suggestion is to carry on with biomed.......study well hard get a 1st.......n try 4 med..........btw u can gt decent jobs frm biomed.........mayb nthing like becoming a doctor............but its smetin.............med is becoming v.competitive..........

i kno im nt the best person 2 give suggestion etc. but its just smetin to think about....

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Medicine is really hard to get into and most people only get one offer. If this is your second time round, then applying a third time might go either way. It could mean that having done it all twice, you have a better idea of what they are looking for and that might go in your favour. But then on the other hand it would be so stressful and you're going to risk not getting in again and wasting another year.
If I was you I would probably think about applying for something else. I have a friend that applied for medicine and didnt get any offers, and took a year out and ended up applying for theology. She's now doing that at uni and loves it! She totally thinks its fate the medicine thing wasn't meant to be.
If you do think medicine is for you, then maybe you could think about doing grad entry? You could do another degree like biochem or biomed and then do medicine after. And that could kind of give you two options. You haven't cut out your route to medicine, but at the same time if you really enjoy your degree and end up wanting to do something else..well you have another three years to think about it.
Also medschools aren't that great at resits/reapplying so I have heard. I think the more times you apply for medicine, the less likely you are to get an offer.

Hope that helps! Dont stress!

Do you know anything about other courses at the top universities?

What do you mean?

My friend got in after 3 gap years so all is not lost, but of course there's still a chance that you won't get in next year.

I don't get why you should be so set on medicine, there are loads of other career options available in a clinical setting which you might like as much; pharmacy, optometry, physiotherapy, clinical psychology... who says you won't be happy there?

I personally would advise against bio science. Graduate entry is insanely competitive, and there aren't enough jobs as a bio medical scientist. (well that's what my bio graduate friends tell me).

Just remember medicine isn't the be-all and end-all! Of course this is all only my opinion.

If I was to reapply again to a different course it wouldn't be bioscience, but I just don't know if universities will look at me if I've taken two gap years.

Got my first rejection of the cycle. Hurted like a bitch at first, but I feel a lot better now. Still think I'm not getting in this year. Just have a feeling.



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