2013 Medicine Re-Applicants

I got 752.5. You'll have a good chance at Newcastle and Manchester with your UKCAT. Manchester do require some long term voluntary work though. I wanted to apply to Soton purely because of the no interview thing since I let myself down at my Manc interview last year. Interviews are my weakness. :/ Best of luck with wherever you decide to apply! Need to really concentrate on my PS now.

I'd say that it's pretty similar to the real thing except the VR and DA being easier on medify.



Congrats!! I feel you man, I hate interviews too. I'm hoping that my personal statement will be awesome enough to bag an offer from soton, but still undecided. Manc's a possibility - I've got varied voluntary work but none longer for 6 months, really hope that's enough. I want to try liverpool again , just hope they accept re applications to their med school after post interview rejections.

Is it worth practicing the VR and DA?? How easy are they on a scale of 1-10 ... i knw i sound silly but last year used UPO vr and da were EXREMLEY easy compared to the real thing. Did you think medify helped u at all?? what were your scores like ??

With your A levels, GCSEs and UKCAT I would think you are pretty likely to be interviewed at both KCL and Dundee. In fact I would say grades and UKCAT are enough to get you an interview almost anywhere. However where did you go wrong last year and are you confident that you would be okay at interview? All those universities use the 'clean slate' approach after interview except for St Andrews where all offers are based on interview performance. Just my two cents that you might want to change one to a university that doesn't adopt this approach such as HYMS. Unless you really don't like the university of course, with your application provided you don't do utterly terrible at interview you might be more likely to get a place.

Has anyone else had that moment when you're really happy with your PS, you show someone and they completely rip to to shreds.

Ahh! Stuck over where to apply :/

Went to Dundee's open day yesterday and loved it, but their selection for interview is apparently 60% academic, 40% UKCAT. My academics are good but I'm not sure they're *that* good :/
Same for KCL. No idea what they class as a good UKCAT so not sure I should apply.
Nottingham and Leicester are also on my list but I've not yet visited either - their open days are soon though.

The only dead cert is St. Andrews.

Anyone have any tips on where to apply out of those I've listed? I have the following..

GCSEs - 7A*, 3A
A-Level - A*A*A
UKCAT - 715. (VR - 700. QR - 770. AR - 680. DA - 710.)

Other stuff:
- Helper a brownies (1 yr, ongoing).
- Maths mentor to Yr9 pupils (2 yrs).
- Lead student to disruptive Yr10s (2yrs).
- First Aider with St. John Ambulance (2yrs, ongoing).
- 2 weeks work exp.
- Trying to get a job as a care assistant. I hope I've just bagged one, they said they'll contact my references.
- I'm the "Fundraising & Finances Director" for a project at my old school. Aiming to raise £10,000 for a Kenyan orphanage. I'll go over, help out for a few months, then come back and give a presentation to the Rotary Club who will possibly then set up a permanent fundraising thing for them.
- Other interests include photography (particularly urbex but maybe shouldn't mention that), travelling, football and cycling.

So yeah. Any tips? Really want to maximise my chances this year.

All those universities use the 'clean slate' approach after interview except for St Andrews where all offers are based on interview performance.

I saw this posted under a reply that was posted, can anyone explain what is meant by the 'clean slate' approach after interview?

The 'clean slate' refers to when the only deciding factor for your admission post-interview is your interview performance. All other factors, such as scores given for your PS, reference, academics and UKCAT/BMAT score become irrelevant.

You're in a similar position as me, with grades and UKCAT, and part of your gap year . With that UKCAT you'd definitely be offered an interview at Newcastle and Manchester, if you're considering those. Also as someone mentioned above, KCL you're quite likely too.

Thanks for the advice (: ...

I saw this posted under a reply that was posted, can anyone explain what is meant by the 'clean slate' approach after interview?

So do you/does anyone know which unis don't use the 'clean slate' approach?

The 'clean slate' refers to when the only deciding factor for your admission post-interview is your interview performance. All other factors, such as scores given for your PS, reference, academics and UKCAT/BMAT score become irrelevant.

Sorry my grammar was slightly bad. As someone above says it means that once at interview offers are given solely on the basis of your interview. If you have 5 A*s at A level they don't consider them at that stage. My grammar suggested St Andrews used this but they do not.

Newcastle? Do you think so?
I was considering there last year but decided not to as my UKCAT was 665. I think that ended up being below their cut-off.

I've heard that they pretty much just interview the top 50%, ranked by UKCAT alone - do you (or anybody else!) know if that's correct, or how they end up scoring you after interview?

My choices may well be St Andrews, Dundee, Leicester and Newcastle. Reckon that's playing it safe enough? Still tempted to swap Leicester for KCL, but the cost of living in London is slightly off-putting.

Oh yeah, I gave it to TSR oh-so-cocky, that it was a pretty good one, and the reader would be impressed if a little long - they slaughtered it

But as I said, I re-did it, and OMG it's sosososososo much better! I'm far far happier to hand it in now, and am disgusted looking back at what I gave in!

They're a kind of God.

I'm so telling your reviewer that you said that, it'll be a nice ego boost for them

If anyone here has already done their UKCAT and has some remaining questions on Medify that they wouldn't mind letting me use, I'd be so, so grateful! As a resitter I only decided to reapply recently and feel so underprepared now :/