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Reply 80
Original post by TheProblematique
I've decided I want to apply to cardiff now :smile: What's the city like? In relation to sizes of other uk cities?


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Original post by futuremedic19
It's a really really nice city. It's got everything for everyone. Whether your into night life, sports, shopping and not to far from the beautiful Brecon beakons.
I have lived in Cardiff for 15 years and I moved from London. And Cardiff is completely ideal in the sense that it's a lively city but not to overcroweded that traffic and moving from A to B becomes a major problem. :smile:


Thanks :smile: Also, I have 27/27 for the gcse scores. Does this mean I'm basically guaranteed an interview if my personal statement is alright?
Hello!

Definitely looking to apply to Cardiff, It looks amazing :smile:

I have a score of 27/27, but does anyone know how Cardiff specifically uses contexual data? I've looked on their website and it doesn't really explain much.

I went to a rough state school in south east London with a very low GCSE pass rate. Would that be considered as part of the contextual data?
Reply 83
Original post by TheProblematique
Thanks :smile: Also, I have 27/27 for the gcse scores. Does this mean I'm basically guaranteed an interview if my personal statement is alright?


There is no such thing as a 'guaranteed interview'. Everyone who meets the GCSE cutoff will move on to the personal statement scoring stage and considered. A full GCSE score guarantees that you will move on to the PS scoring stage, but it does not guarantee that you will get an interview.


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Reply 84
I'd be applying for A104. Is this course more competitive than A100?

And how does the uni use the UKCAT score?

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Original post by NsT3N12
I'd be applying for A104. Is this course more competitive than A100?

And how does the uni use the UKCAT score?

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Think the ukcat is only used for borderline cases, minimum 2400
Original post by Tim4242
There is no such thing as a 'guaranteed interview'. Everyone who meets the GCSE cutoff will move on to the personal statement scoring stage and considered. A full GCSE score guarantees that you will move on to the PS scoring stage, but it does not guarantee that you will get an interview.


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Okay so say if my GCSEs were better than Applicant A (we both meet the gcse cut off) but in the personal statement scoring stage, Applicant A had a stronger personal statement. Do you know if they would consider the academic and non-academic scores combined or after passing the GCSE cut off, it would be purely on the non-academics?
Reply 87
Original post by TheProblematique
Okay so say if my GCSEs were better than Applicant A (we both meet the gcse cut off) but in the personal statement scoring stage, Applicant A had a stronger personal statement. Do you know if they would consider the academic and non-academic scores combined or after passing the GCSE cut off, it would be purely on the non-academics?


After having contacted them, I believe that provided you meet the cutoff, you will be equally considered on the personal statement stage. But they cut out quite a lot of applicants in this process, so your chances of getting selected for interview are much higher.


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Original post by Tim4242
After having contacted them, I believe that provided you meet the cutoff, you will be equally considered on the personal statement stage. But they cut out quite a lot of applicants in this process, so your chances of getting selected for interview are much higher.


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Ah okay, thank you! :smile:
Reply 89
Original post by NancyRoseC
Think the ukcat is only used for borderline cases, minimum 2400


Thank u very much :smile: and do u know whether a104 is more competitive than a100 ?

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Original post by NancyRoseC
Think the ukcat is only used for borderline cases, minimum 2400


Actually Cardiff don't use UKCAT at all, very very rarely do they even bother glancing over a candidates UKCAT, I wen't to the open day and they said that they have no cutoff and you can apply with any score and will be considered. For both the A100 and A104 course they ask for it but don't use it as part of their selection. The admissions tutor said they only bothered looking at about 10 ukcat scores out of 3200 applicants last year and even with a poor ukcat score you are not disadvantaged at Cardiff. They only make u do it because of the GMC and a "tiebreak situation" very rarely arises, and even if it does they will look more at your interview performance then ps, and very very rarely ukcat. Cardiff just don't consider it an important factor. People have gotten in with scores as low as 560 average according to previous stalking pages.


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Reply 91
I went to visit Cardiff and really liked it! Definitely applying, although I just hope my personal statement is good enough
Reply 92
Original post by Tim4242
Applying to cardiff for 2015 entry. For those of you that received offers from cardiff, would you recommend leaving spaces and starting the a new paragraphs on the next line. If am considering this but the only problem is my character are just about 4000 and I would have to cut out quite abit of content to be able to do this


Hey! I know you posted a few weeks back so you've probably already decided, but it might help people who are still unsure.

I applied last year to Cardiff and received an offer, in fact my only offer and my only interview (so it just shows you only need one!). I was like you when it came to my personal statement and I ended up cutting a few lines out so that I could put in just one paragraph break after my introduction. The rest of the personal statement I just started a new line for a new paragraph. I did notice however, that in my interview the interviewers had a piece of paper that was obviously my academic statistics and statement, and it seemed it was just one big block anyway with the exception of the line break. This was probably because it had been reformatted somewhere along the line (although I can't be completely sure, I was too busy trying not to mess up my interview!)

Moral of the story, don't worry about it! I don't think they actually care! It's the content that matters the most :smile: Good luck!
Reply 93
Original post by Agl
Hey! I know you posted a few weeks back so you've probably already decided, but it might help people who are still unsure.

I applied last year to Cardiff and received an offer, in fact my only offer and my only interview (so it just shows you only need one!). I was like you when it came to my personal statement and I ended up cutting a few lines out so that I could put in just one paragraph break after my introduction. The rest of the personal statement I just started a new line for a new paragraph. I did notice however, that in my interview the interviewers had a piece of paper that was obviously my academic statistics and statement, and it seemed it was just one big block anyway with the exception of the line break. This was probably because it had been reformatted somewhere along the line (although I can't be completely sure, I was too busy trying not to mess up my interview!)

Moral of the story, don't worry about it! I don't think they actually care! It's the content that matters the most :smile: Good luck!


Yeah, I do agree with you; it's is the content that matters at the end of the day. I have however decided just to start a new paragraph by pressing enter at the end of each paragraphs( this uses up only a little space on only one line and no characters). This means that each new paragraph is on a new line rather than wasting one line between two paragraphs while still giving he new paragraph feel.


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Reply 94
Original post by Tim4242
Yeah, I do agree with you; it's is the content that matters at the end of the day. I have however decided just to start a new paragraph by pressing enter at the end of each paragraphs( this uses up only a little space on only one line and no characters). This means that each new paragraph is on a new line rather than wasting one line between two paragraphs while still giving he new paragraph feel.


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That sounds like a good idea :smile: I only did a line gap at the end of my introduction because I felt it was so different to the rest of my personal statement, so starting a new line is also good!


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Reply 95
Hey, I was just wondering how easy current students find it to get involved with students union events and stuff due to the two different campuses?
There's not much info on the website about how far away they are and I was wanting to know if you feel a bit separated from the rest of the uni or not.
Thanks :smile:
Reply 96
Original post by DMBP
Hey, I was just wondering how easy current students find it to get involved with students union events and stuff due to the two different campuses?
There's not much info on the website about how far away they are and I was wanting to know if you feel a bit separated from the rest of the uni or not.
Thanks :smile:


I stayed in Talybont (halls in Cardiff) in my first year which had a mix of students from different courses, so it was very easy to integrate. Talybont is also an equal distance between the two campuses, so going for a night out was never too taxing. You also have dissection in Biosciences which is right opposite the Student's Union in first year so you will spend some time in the Cathays campus.

If you join uni societies in first year, then you will meet a lot of non-medics; it's easy to become involved in the uni events in first year at least as long as you go out there and join new things.
Reply 97
Original post by Angury
I stayed in Talybont (halls in Cardiff) in my first year which had a mix of students from different courses, so it was very easy to integrate. Talybont is also an equal distance between the two campuses, so going for a night out was never too taxing. You also have dissection in Biosciences which is right opposite the Student's Union in first year so you will spend some time in the Cathays campus.

If you join uni societies in first year, then you will meet a lot of non-medics; it's easy to become involved in the uni events in first year at least as long as you go out there and join new things.


Oh that sounds ok then! I just thought it might not be as easy to socialise with other students but this makes me feel better :smile:

It's hard to find out these things without asking people who already go there!
How safe is it applying with 26/27 for GCSEs?


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Reply 99
Original post by Saywhatyoumean
How safe is it applying with 26/27 for GCSEs?


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Safe enough! You will be fine :smile:

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