which uni's dont place a lot of weightage on gcse's

This is rubbish.. the OP should avoid Oxbridge, B'ham, Liverpool, King's, St Andrews, Edinburgh, possibly also Bristol, Leeds, sure I'm forgetting some.

Indeed, birmingham and oxbridge just the only ones i knew of, which i believe i said.
I was just basing that on someone in my year who had the same grades at GCSE, and has managed to get responses from 3 of his 5 choices so far, one of them i believe being liverpool.
He did however do very well in his AS's, and also in interviews situations.

3 of 5? You can only apply to 4

I might actually be wrong about L'pool, never wanted to go to the place personally so OP you should double check that.

'ow arrogant you are to fink that your guess is better informed than a med school website.

i got 4 A*'s and 8 A's at gcse
wt uni's do you think i should apply to
as i dont want to be too disadvantaged by my gcse's
i think this will be good advice for other medical applicant who have got modest gcse's.

No they won't.

OP, I would advise you to avoid Oxford, Birmingham, Queens Belfast, Edinburgh, St Andrews, and a couple of others (perhaps Leicester? can't remember if it's them I'm thinking of).

You should be fine for most places though. Well, obviously, the higher the GCSE grades the better, but there are lots of other parts of the application, so you have plenty of opportunities to convice medical schools to accept you. GCSEs are only one factor, and yours are pretty good anyway.

Liverpool score As and A*s the same - ie they would get the same amount of points...

so you would be scored the same as someone who got 12A*s

(they might only take the top 8 though?)

In the feedback they don't tell you how they score the academics. 11As = 10, 11A*'s = 14. Somewhere imbetween (ie several A*s) = 12 isn't an unreasonable guesstimate.

Understand now?

really? that's interesting - oxford does the opposite - scoring A the same as a F.

Do not apply to

Birmingham
Oxford

Think very carefully before applying to

Edinburgh
St Andrews
Leeds
Kings College London

Otherwise you're good to go!

Well, more places than that will take GCSEs into account above the minimum requirements, but they would just have to accept that they will be a bit disadvantaged when they're applying. Nobody has the perfect application anyway.

Is that because oxford do it on percentage of A*s, regardless of what you got in your other grades?

and a couple of others (perhaps Leicester? can't remember if it's them I'm thinking of).

Nah OP would be ok with Leicester

i got 4 A*'s and 8 A's at gcse
wt uni's do you think i should apply to
as i dont want to be too disadvantaged by my gcse's
i think this will be good advice for other medical applicant who have got modest gcse's.

This is rubbish.. the OP should avoid Oxbridge, B'ham, Liverpool, King's, St Andrews, Edinburgh, possibly also Bristol, Leeds, sure I'm forgetting some.

I scored 10/16 for academics and got 11A's. A friend got 11A*s and scored 14/16 but did'nt get an interview because he dropped more than 6 points overall ie his personal statement was scored quite low.