Edinburgh Medical School Applicants 2012

It's not working for me either. Is yours working now?

with 810 in my UKCAT
4A's at As
13A*'s

i feel i might have left it slightly late to apply to Medicine, i have a personal statement written but I'm unsure if the school will let me apply as it is an extremely completive course. Can some please just give me the encouragement to apply?

Thanks

Does anyone know what the quartiles for the ukcat were last year?

I'd like to know this too as i'm slightly worried with my 640 ukcat score

Roughly 700+ #1, 650-700 #2 600-650 #3 and <600 #4

This is what i was told by the deputy head teacher at my school who was told by an admissions officer. This puts me in #3

Going by the poll, it'll be quite a bit above 700 to get into the first quartile.

but remember that tsr generally has a higher average of ukcats. although more and more people do seem to be getting 700+

Going by the poll, it'll be quite a bit above 700 to get into the first quartile.

I wouldn't go by the poll. Remember there are thousands of people who apply to medicine and those who have low scores aren't exactly going to put them on a student room poll. A person I knew last year got 624 and she was in the third quadrant so with 622.5, I desperately hope I also get into the third. The ukcat is the only thing that let's me down so I'm really happy that for Edinburgh it is only worth 8%

Roughly 700+ #1, 650-700 #2 600-650 #3 and <600 #4

This is what i was told by the deputy head teacher at my school who was told by an admissions officer. This puts me in #3

Roughly 700+ #1, 650-700 #2 600-650 #3 and <600 #4

This is what i was told by the deputy head teacher at my school who was told by an admissions officer. This puts me in #3

Its only one point either way. I might have snuck into the top quartile, but eventually didn't apply cos i don't think id get enough points.

Thanks for that! hmm...sounds like i'll be in the 3rd quartile too

Seriously? You definitely should have applied, especially with a score over 700 :O that's an amazing score!

Well, I actually got 695. I was more worried about lack of extra-curricular stuff.

Still, that's an absolutely fantastic score! I'd take that anyday well what things have you done, this includes voluntary work and work experience as well as other interests ?

I thought so too, but there's so many on here with 700+ its devalued a bit for me. I was slightly gutted cos I thought it had gone awful, so quit the last review with nearly seven minutes to go - might have got 700 otherwise

10 days medical work experience (as of tomorrow)
Few months in Oxfam
Volunteered in a hospital for a while, but this was a six-week rotation so I didn't do it that many times.
I can play a tiny bit of guitar (haven't touched it for six months)
Can't think of anything else.

Third quartile isn't too bad we only lose two points, it could have been a lot more let's just hope our other stuff is good enough for them to give us lots of points

I know :L its insane :L well i majorly screwed mine up, in the vr I ended up getting five scroll down passages at the end and ran out of time and missed 12 questions. Then I panicked. And because I did, I couldn't do the qr properly and couldn't see patterns in abstract at all, which is my best part. But managed to calm down by da so that was the only score I got that was half decent. When I came out I thought I had under 600. It sucks so much because i was aiming for over 800 and my practice stuff went so well but I can't do anything about it now.

Well that is some pretty decent work experience you've got there so you'd have done well on that. Did you not join any clubs at school or do any sports throughout school? Or do you have a part time job?

I think I'll do well in the extra-curricular part, just not the ukcat bit :/

No, no, and done a tiny bit of distributing. Didn't think it was worth wasting characters on tbh.

So since you get nearly half of your point from extra-curricular stuff, I thought I might as well not bother.

Ah I see, that's fair enough. So have you applied to ukcat/grade heavy universities then ? The problem with edinburgh is that no one can actually figure out what they want. The teachers at my school say they get surprised every year by applicants edinburgh give offers to because it's always to people they wouldn't expect would get an offer... Gosh, i hope that is me fingers crossed!