Cardiff Medicine Applicants 2012

Bad luck...were you rejected without interview?

Yea, without interview.

I can't in the life of me think why they rejected me. 5As at AS level (Chem, bio, physics, computing and maths).

677.5 average for ukcat, all sections above 600. One of them being 820.

I'd say decent work experience, 2 seperate weeks, one at a hospital and one at heart research.

I'd say my non academics and sport are good. Silver DofE as well.

The only thing I'd put it down to is a B for GCSE English Language.

Yea, without interview.

I can't in the life of me think why they rejected me. 5As at AS level (Chem, bio, physics, computing and maths).

677.5 average for ukcat, all sections above 600. One of them being 820.

I'd say decent work experience, 2 seperate weeks, one at a hospital and one at heart research.

I'd say my non academics and sport are good. Silver DofE as well.

The only thing I'd put it down to is a B for GCSE English Language.

Yea, without interview.

I can't in the life of me think why they rejected me. 5As at AS level (Chem, bio, physics, computing and maths).

677.5 average for ukcat, all sections above 600. One of them being 820.

I'd say decent work experience, 2 seperate weeks, one at a hospital and one at heart research.

I'd say my non academics and sport are good. Silver DofE as well.

The only thing I'd put it down to is a B for GCSE English Language.

maybe it's because you put all your emphasis on academia?

Doubtful. Surely unis are not the mind of a female (joke)? "You're too good, we won't take you".

Maybe the poster below had a point.

Even my non academia is strong I believe.
Silver Dofe, many chess trohpies, lots of work experience, playing sports like tennis, basketball, football, snooker, swimming, karate (to name what I remember).
Or maybe they don't like the fact that I had a saturday job?
Not to mention Arabic school that I attended for 9 years every Saturday and Sunday. A few uk maths challenges, playing grade 6 piano and currently about to sit grade 5 theory.
And in the end, rejection without interview.

In the end if all it comes down to is the personal statement then I just feel gutted.

The thing with medicine is an incredible amount of applicants are rejected without much good cause. There is such a vast quantity of applicants applying, that, it may have simply been a word put down that doesn't quite flow in the sentence, that ends up putting someone off your application.

There's a lot of different factors involved when an application is processed, and I think that being offered a place is partly down to chance.

EDIT: Just been rejected - I still stand by what I said!

Gotta love a bit of modesty.

Doesn't seem like you did any voluntary work? All the medical students I know in Cardiff volunteered for at least a year.

lol, no modesty when it comes to applying, although I usually don't do this :L

Hmm, well I do volunteer to help out in the school chess club, photography club, helped out for 6 months in dofe teaching first aid I guess as well as tech club.

But nothing like a care home or anything like that.

Does it seriously come down to that in the end? Shame.

Does Dofe volunteering count in any way? Like for gold and silver, those are pretty long. Because if not then I have a friend (gold dofe) who's had an interview and I'm pretty sure he hasn't volunteered for a care home or something of the like.

lol, no modesty when it comes to applying, although I usually don't do this :L

Hmm, well I do volunteer to help out in the school chess club, photography club, helped out for 6 months in dofe teaching first aid I guess as well as tech club.

But nothing like a care home or anything like that.

Does it seriously come down to that in the end? Shame.

Does Dofe volunteering count in any way? Like for gold and silver, those are pretty long. Because if not then I have a friend (gold dofe) who's had an interview and I'm pretty sure he hasn't volunteered for a care home or something of the like.

Yea, without interview.

I can't in the life of me think why they rejected me. 5As at AS level (Chem, bio, physics, computing and maths).

677.5 average for ukcat, all sections above 600. One of them being 820.

I'd say decent work experience, 2 seperate weeks, one at a hospital and one at heart research.

I'd say my non academics and sport are good. Silver DofE as well.

The only thing I'd put it down to is a B for GCSE English Language.

I think I'd have to agree with what you've said there. It's a shame if the system were to rely on chance like this.

I'm so sorry to hear, I hope you get into what you want to do eventually.