Best route to medicine with poor grades?

Post grad is far more competitive than undergrad entry.
I'd advise to resit your english and physics GCSE's
apply to uni's who don't really care about GCSE's (check requirements)
And if you don't get in do a Gap.
I got 2A* 1A 6B's and a C so not amazing GCSE's like a lot of people on here do, but I still got in this year after a gap and working within the NHS.
Also nursing is competitive in it's own right.
And there's no funding for postgrads.

Hi,

I got 1A* 7As 1B and 1C, do you think I have a reasonable chance of getting into Medicine?

Hi,

I got 1A* 7As 1B and 1C, do you think I have a reasonable chance of getting into Medicine?

I got pretty similar gcses to you:
1 A*, 8 As and 2 Bs.
This year i received all 4 interview invites.
From that i got 2 offers and withdrew from the other 2 pre-interview

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Wow that's amazing
Are you a mature applicant?
And what did u get in ur AS year

Sorry
Future medic here


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Current year 13.
Got 4 As at AS. UMS average of all 4 is about 94%.
Got predicted 4 A*s and A* EPQ.

Unis applied to: Barts, manchester, keele, st george.
Offers from barts and manchester. Withdrawn from keele and st george.

My advice would be to apply to your strengths. I applied to unis that didnt look too heavily on gcses (except keele). Also getting a decent UKCAT opens up quite a few choices as welll.

Where are you thinking of applying to? ☺

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That's anazing!
Congrats

I was actually going to be applying to keele too but didn't realise they look at GCSEs haha as I didn't do exceptionally well but reasonably well

I'm thinking of hull and York And kings
Not sure about the rest
Hoping to get 3 A's and a B
And going to be working extremely hard for the UKCAT


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Keele use either gcse + ukcat or roles and responsibility form + ukcat.
The only reason i got an interview i think is because of a decent roles and responsibility form.

Kings is very heavy on gcses. They use a slider scale of gcses and ukcat. I.e the higher your ukcat the lower gcses you need.

I attended about 12 medical school open days. It was probably the best thing i did as it actually gives you a feeling of the medical school and the area that you could potentially be staying in. You will always get a gut feeling about certain medical schools you visit. This ultimately helped me decide where to apply.

Preparing for the ukcat will be by far the most boring thing you will do in your whole medical school application ahah

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Hi what did you get in you =r GCSEs and do you have a good CV with work experience and extra curricular etc? because i really want to get into barts

Hey,

My GCSEs were poor compared to most candidates:
1 A*, 8 As and 2 Bs

But Barts only want you to have 8 As and above. They don't compare students on GCSEs. Their assessment is primarily using UKCAT and UCAS Tariff combo.

Work experience wise it was pretty average as well:
1 week shadowing consultants at hospitals
1 week volunteering at care home
3 months volunteering on hospital ward
4 years at local charity shop

Remember it is the quality not quantity!

Extra-curricular:
Football team
Badminton
DofE
Few other things, but list is not very exhaustive

I presume you are in AS?
Where else are you thinking of applying?

Hi thanks for replying! wow Your application looks so well rounded! How did you apply to do 3 months volunteering at a hospital ward? I want to do something like that.

And no I'm currently doing my GCSE exams I'm expected 8A*s 3As but I think its currently likely to be probably 5A*s because I revised last minute. So today I had a bit of a break down about how I won't get into the unis i want. I really want to apply to Barts, UCL, Birmingham, etc, but they seem to be very competitive and most care about GCSEs. What did you get for UKCAT? Sorry for the questions!

I hope my UKCAT is as good as yours Do I take it next year? And wow I always thought Imperial looked heavily on GCSE grades, but I'm guessing he had a great personal statement. And thanks, I'm gonna try to find places to volunteer after my exams hopefully within the NHS like you. Good luck with your A-level results!