Southampton Medical School 2012 Applicants

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Hey, is the 25% percentile thing of everyone who sits the UKCAT in the country, or is it just that they rank everyone applying to BM5 by their overall UKCAT score, and then remove the bottom 25% of candidates that way?

Cheers :smile:

From what I have read somewhere it was 25% of the applicants, not of the country.

Reply 201

doctork2

Original post by thegodofgod

I believe they rank everyone in BM5 and rank them. Then the University will proceed to remove the bottom 25% percentile that way. Hope it helped!

-doctork2

Reply 202

thegodofgod

Original post by areyousure?

From what I have read somewhere it was 25% of the applicants, not of the country.

Original post by doctork2

I believe they rank everyone in BM5 and rank them. Then the University will proceed to remove the bottom 25% percentile that way. Hope it helped!

-doctork2

Cheers guys :smile:

Reply 203

.eXe

with my score of 610, would I be in the bottom 25%?? Im worried now :frown:

Reply 204

doctork2

Original post by .eXe

with my score of 610, would I be in the bottom 25%?? Im worried now :frown:

It really depends... I would honestly say 610 would be probably in the bottom 30%, but don't really know about 25%.. Keep your fingers crossed.

Reply 205

HazzieB

Original post by .eXe

with my score of 610, would I be in the bottom 25%?? Im worried now :frown:

Ive heard its normally (and was last year) a late 500s cut off, so you should be fine :smile:

Just depends how much the average marks went up/down this year x

Reply 206

t_star

does anyone know anyone who got into southampton last year? alot of people are saying its really hard to get into, kinda worried :s-smilie:

Reply 207

Erotas

Original post by t_star

does anyone know anyone who got into southampton last year? alot of people are saying its really hard to get into, kinda worried :s-smilie:

Yeh I've heard it's really competitive too because they don't interview :frown:

Reply 208

HazzieB

Original post by Erotas

Yeh I've heard it's really competitive too because they don't interview :frown:

On that note, I posted something like this-

"Struggling to understand HOW exactly Soton select the 40 candidates for BM4. I know PS is HUGELY improtant, but as they only reject the lowest 25% of UKCAT scoring candidates, what else is involved??

Does anyone know how far Southampton look back academically etc? Ive been hearing stories from grad candidates applying to other unis that depsite not looking at A levels with a good predicted degree, they go back and check your GCSEs."

But got no response. Anyone shed light on it??? x

Reply 209

Cattree

Selection policy here

http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/search/searching.asp?q=selection+procedure&submit=&s=Faculty+of+Medicine&Action=Go

Basically you need to have a brain. But I think as long as you get a good degree, GCSE doesn't matter too much. Southampton seem quite keen on the non-academic side of things so personal statemnt/reference are most important.

Also - the policy says UKCAT is 25% of the national results, not the Soton applicant results which is interesting. Presumably means it will be a bit lower.

Reply 210

HazzieB

Original post by Cattree

Thank you!! Ps. we also have Warwick in common, Cattree :smile:

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Reply 211

areyousure?

Original post by Cattree

Had not seen that before! Thank you for that :smile:

Glad it is 25% of national results then :biggrin:

Reply 212

Cattree

yep - 25% of national is much better. I think some do it based on the applicant score - but I can't see how that doesn't end badly. They advertise that it's 25% of applicants, so if you've got even a slightly iffy score, say below 700, you don't bother applying, so all applicants applying have 700-900, which means they only look at applicants with 850+, which seems ridiculous. (I know my maths is completely wrong!) . It just seems that saying you're going to take the top few applicants artifically pushes the cut off higher and higher? Or maybe you always get the same number of people with low (comparatively) scores, *hoping* to make the cut off, which keeps the average down?

Maybe I think too much..