Liverpool Medicine MBChB A100 Applicants 2012

Hi I can't decide between Lancaster and Keele

16 points in total for GCSE
AAAA for AS
A*A*A for prediction
Very good PS and long term voluntary work (4 years)

Help please :\

Also, does anyone know if liverpool and lancaster does dissection? thanks.

Hi I can't decide between Lancaster and Keele

16 points in total for GCSE
AAAA for AS
A*A*A for prediction
Very good PS and long term voluntary work (4 years)

Help please :\

Also, does anyone know if liverpool and lancaster does dissection? thanks.

'Very good PS'? I'm afraid you have no way of knowing that, you just feel you have a strong personal statement.
And if you apply to Lancaster you will be rejected because the cut off for Liverpool & Lancaster was 17 points at GCSE. However, Keele will love the fact you've been volunteering for so long, so you'd do better there.

At Liverpool, they do prosection.

Yeah basically we have this place called HARC (Human Anatomy Resource Centre) where you you get to handle Human Tissues and get work and stuff. There is no dissection here.

I got the Imperial admissions lady to review it so yeah and is there a chance it'd go down to 16 this year? I'm just worried cos so many people are applying to keele

That doesn't mean another medical school will find it as good, they each have pretty specific criteria when it comes to scoring the PS and it's really difficult to try and address them all. Nevertheless, its good that you've got some positive feedback for it.

I don't know, to be completely honest. Last year was the most competitive yet but there's every chance this year could be more competitive still. Personally, I'd never hang my hopes on a cut-off being lowered, I can't think of one instance where it's gone that way :/

Got my confirmation letter today.

If I were you and if you ask my opinion, I'd apply for both 4-year and 5-year at Liverpool if you're a hundred per cent decided you want to study at Liverpool for medicine.
It says on the admissions page that those with honours degree may wish to send the admissions tutor a copy of your CV so they can make a pre-application comment. Their comment would kind of help you determine/gauge whether you stand a good chance of getting in or not. Speak to them.

So I was just reading this from last years Liverpool Medicine Applicants 2011:

Originally Posted by abdul786_786
I have an interview at liverpool next week. what sort of questions do they usually ask?

Reply posted by 123trident
The first question is 'Are you in Liverpool?'. The second is more of a task. You have to eat a book titled 'Brain Damage'. The third and the final question is the most difficult yet - 'Describe the anatomy of a Pokemon and why, when they attack with the most fatal weapons such as electrocution (Pickachu) and flamethrowers (Charizard), the other Pokemon don't die?'

You just gotta work through the medical interview prep questions systematically and I'm sure you'll pull through.

Good luck man.


Ermm okay....

sending my application form off tomorrow and im still unsure between liverpool and leeds

GCSE: 10A* and 2A
AS: AAAA
A2: A*A*AB

2 weeks work exp in hospital
1 week work exp in GP surgery
6 months volunteeting with adults with learning disabilities
mentored year 7 pupils in science

i'm a re-applicant, during my gap year i will be working as a domiciliary carer and i'm also doing a 2 week placement in st lucia through Gap Medics

can anyone give me and idea where i'll have the best chance of getting an interview, liverpool or leeds?

I applied to Leeds last year, they'd love your voluntary work and I'm sure you'd score 6/6 for motivation and 6/6 for insight (as a reapplicant and because of your solid work experience) and you'd probably get full marks academically too. Plus I've heard Liverpool aren't so keen on reapplicants (bad for myself), whether that's an unsubstantiated rumour or not I don't know.

I applied to leeds last year as well and didnt even get an interview thats why im so unsure, but at the time of applying i had only organised voluntary work and GP work exp so couldnt really expand on it in my personal statement