Biomedical Science Applicants 2013 Entry!

Anyone else thinking of applying for biomed this year? (:

Any ideas where you'd like to go yet?

At the moment I'm considering Southampton, Kings, Reading, and Surrey. Well I know I definitely want Southampton... other than that I'm just looking around.

I'll add a list of everyone that's applying this year to the first post so that we can see who everyone is! (:

'ello all, i succesfully got into biomedical sciences this year...if anyone has any questions...inbox me!

Heyy, I want to definitely study biomed at southampton. And im also thinking of surrey as well.
initially i wanted to do medicine, but looking at my As grades i think im gonna do it as a post grad.
I live in london. Where do you live??

Hello, well done in getting in.
Are u living on campus? also what grades did you do and achieve?

Hey guys I'm hoping to study biomedical science at Southampton, Newcastle or St. Georges. At AS I got abcc and am predicted ABB. Is this ok to apply for biomedical science?

Yeh i'm staying in Horton Halls (v.nice halls btw ) got AAB (Bio/Chem/Phys), exceeding the standard offer of ABB

I'm going into my final year of biomed at UCL, let me know if anyone has any questions about anything. And good luck with your applications!

Hello! I might apply for biomed at UCL. How's the course so far?

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Hey, thanks for your reply. But that's what I'm predicted. In the subjects I'm carrying forward to A2 I got ABC. Would they look at the C and say no straight away?

It's really good, you get a lot of choice after your first year in what area you might want to specialise in, or if you want to do a broad range of modules. The research at UCL is absolutely amazing, and you quite often some quite well known lecturers who have done a lot in their field. The support from the course organisers is perfect as well, they'll help you with anything and everything you can think of regarding your degree and future.

Ah, on the topic of AS grades - i got BCC in AS (a bit of a shocker) but pulled it up to AAB. I applied to SGUL/QMUL/Sussex/Keele/Southampton, getting all fiver offers ranging from AAB --> BBC

I wanted to do medicine too, had a crazy moment at the start of Year 12, and ended up doing English Lit, Philosophy, History and Drama.
Ended up really ill and had to resit. So I took a year off and then I decided while resitting (self taught, I decided not to go back to school) to pick up Psychology because I'd regretted my decision not to do the sciences and then Medicine since the end of year 12, despite okay AS grades in the subjects I had picked (AAAB). I knew by then it was too late for medicine so thought psychology would be the closest I could get to it as an undergrad. I got BBB in English Lit, Philosophy, and History - devastating when I was predicted A*AA before my health deteriorated in year 13 (I'd been ill since year 9 but until then I'd managed to self teach when I wasn't well enough to be in school) but these things happen. Got an A in my AS Psychology which I was really proud of considering I'd never had a lesson. Unfortunately in one of my A2 papers I really badly messed up, answered 2 of the essay questions wrong due to a misread. Ended up 1 mark off a B. :/

Anyway the long and short of it was that this year I did my research better, and decided that if I have to take another gap year to fix the mess I made of the Psychology Unit 3 paper, I wanted to actually follow my dream. I might not be able to do medicine any more but I can do biomed. So I'm now going to resit the paper I did the epic fail on, and I'm going to self teach myself Biology (AS&A2) and then Chemistry AS, and apply for 2013 entry! (I'll be a mature student but ah well, that's life.)

Sorry you really didn't know any of that, just felt like sharing haha. What did you get at AS if you don't mind me asking?

Oh wow I used to live in London, but since I finished school I've moved to Newcastle!

Yeh i'm staying in Horton Halls (v.nice halls btw ) got AAB (Bio/Chem/Phys), exceeding the standard offer of ABB

LOOL WOWWW, You sound really smart to teach yourself those subjects and still end up with pretty cool grades, i tried to attemp biology on my own for As in january but ended up with a D so i just joined the class for the june exams. I hope you feel much better now. So how old are you then? if you dont mind me asking.

Oh for my As subjects i got BBCCC. philosophy/chemistry/biology/maths/psychology. im going to take through maths, biology and chemistry.