Newcastle Medicine Applicants 2015

Good news everyone!! Rang Durham today asking about the cutoff and apparently it's 2500! Amazed at how low it is, i guess the number of applicants must have gone through the floor given the super high cutoff last year and the huge reduction in scores this year!

Good news everyone!! Rang Durham today asking about the cutoff and apparently it's 2500! Amazed at how low it is, i guess the number of applicants must have gone through the floor given the super high cutoff last year and the huge reduction in scores this year!

If that is true (and I'm not saying I don't believe you, I just don't want to get too hopeful!) you have officially made my day 100x better!!! That is amazingly low though, I'm only sitting on 2760 and was almost certain I'd be rejected on that basis!

On another note, I put down 'either' for Durham/Newcastle campus, any idea when we are sorted?

Would be really surprised if this is true?! That's below the national average


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do newcastle and durham share the same cut off?

Yep!!

So basically everyone is gonna get an interview. That's good. Hopefully the odds offer after interview for Newcastle will also be a bit better if there are not many applicants.

trying not to get my hopes up (not that i dont believe the original post) cos with this being my 4th time applying i've been knocked back too much!

Oh ok. Wow that's a lot of applications, you must be really committed for this. It's only my 2nd time this year. Where else have you decided to go for this year?

yeah i'm a graduate but applied for all undergrad courses to give myself the best chance so went for Leeds, HYMS, Manchester
how about you?

Plymouth, Cardiff and Exeter. Where did you apply before?

first time: imperial, edinburgh, newcastle, nottingham
second time: aberdeen, glasgow, UEA (2 biomed)
third time: Warwick, southampton (grad), Leeds, Leicester (undergrad)

Congratulations to him! I How did your son find out that he had an interview? I've got a friend who is in a similar position to your son but hasn't received an interview offer yet (he got 790). Do you suggest that emailing Durham directly is best?

Does any one know how many applicants Newcastle got this year?
For the cutoff to be that low they must have got considerably fewer than normal....

Someone on another page put in an FOI request and Newcastle refused to say so we won't find out until after applications finish I don't think.

Read on another post someone rang admissions and they said the cut-off would be 2700-2800.
Would love it to be true but going with the saying "If it's too good to be true, it probably is".

Mate I'm applying through partners what do you think the ukcat cutoff will be
And do newcastle do an overall cut off or cut off from each section


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Hello hello! I couldn't find a Durham Med Applicant page so I thought I'd come on here and see if y'all were discussing QC (Queen's Campus) at all.

I'm a first year at Durham, so I suppose I'm one of the best people to dispel answer any questions about coming here for Phase I of the MBBS programme

- Yes, we do get a degree from Newcastle
- We are in Stockton-on-Tees, which is relatively close to Middlesbrough
- Queen's Campus is around an hour away from Durham on a free bus (with your campus card) called the X1
- If you chose 'E' it'll give you no advantage whatsoever on choices, the same as to whether you put in two applications with both 'N' and 'D'; the first will simply make you allocated to one or t'other, the latter will either result in two offers or two rejections
- The UKCAT threshold last year I believe was 740ish, I got in with 747; do be aware that if your UKCAT is just cutting it and you chose Newcastle, you may be rung up and told that you can have an interview at Durham if you want it; they'll just switch you
- The interviewffer ratio is much MUCH higher here - 1.3:1 as opposed to 2.3:1 I believe, so actually we're easier to get into in that respect

And to the person who asked why people don't tend to choose Durham to start. Well, I really liked both and wanted both, which is why I chose to apply to Durham. But some people are only a fan of one (I do prefer Durham to Newcastle tbh) and then apply to Newcastle. Of course there is also the thing about really, really good nights out on the toon. I suppose it also helps that you'll have the same lecturers throughout whereas, when we resume lectures in fourth year, I'll never have met the lecturers that the Newcastle students already know.

Oh, Durham also have a collegiate system and two colleges down here; I really like that. We have massive rivalry. John Snow > Stephenson though, always remember that.

Oh and to clarify:
Year 1 and 2 - Durham or Newcastle; lectures
Year 3 - Newcastle; base units (Northumbria, Tyne, Tees or Wear)
Year 4 - Newcastle; lectures
Year 5 - Newcastle; base units (Northumbria, Tyne, Tees or Wear, but not the same as you picked in Year 3)

Hope that helps O