Where's best to study medicine?

It's not tough - you need to have straight As. That's all.

If you're Scottish, then maybe. But if you're non-Scottish then grades alone don't seem to cut it.

Definitely not true. You need to have a sound knowledge in the medical field and a solution to various types of cancers. Even if you were Harry Potter, you would undoubtedly get rejected.

I only know one person who was rejected from Edinburgh of about 8 who applied. The other 7 had AAAAA - the person who was rejected had AAAAB.
I don't know what it's like for English applicants applying to Scotland so I couldn't comment

St Andrews favours English people, in my experience.
For Scottish applicants, its grade requirements are the lowest in Scotland (only AAABB) and yet, nobody I know has been offered a place there.
I did apply to St Andrews and I'd been to the Summer School there and wrote that on my statement and I was still rejected.
I know 4 people who also applied there and were rejected (they were all given several offers from elsewhere so their applications were in no way defective.)
As I've said before on this forum, not a lot of Scottish people apply to St Andrews, certainly not from my area.

Nothing you've said there suggests that St Andrews favours English students or discriminates against Scottish ones. It sounds like any other medical school. Just because it offers lower than the rest doesn't mean it's easier to get into.

haha, oh yeah, forgot that point
Personally, I've never known someone to be made an offer by St Andrews.
I've known about 40, 50 medical applicants and not one has been made an offer by St Andrews. They have, however, been made offers by every single other Scottish Medical School and some, by Oxbridge.
All of those medical applicants were Scottish.

When the hell did this become a serious thread? It shouldn't be allowed.

Actually I saw some odd program on Channel 4 a while back about this 12 year old Indian kid who was a medical genius (had the medical knowledge of a graduate basically...) and claimed he had good theories for fighting cancers...

We're all very bright, you know

St Andrews favours English people, in my experience.
For Scottish applicants, its grade requirements are the lowest in Scotland (only AAABB) and yet, nobody I know has been offered a place there.
I did apply to St Andrews and I'd been to the Summer School there and wrote that on my statement and I was still rejected.
I know 4 people who also applied there and were rejected (they were all given several offers from elsewhere so their applications were in no way defective.)
As I've said before on this forum, not a lot of Scottish people apply to St Andrews, certainly not from my area.

Clincal contact is late in St Andrews and you only stay there until year three at which point you move to Manchester to do your clinical training there. It isn't ideal and St Andrews gets slagged off quite considerably among applicants for this.

Edinburgh is a great medical school but, I'm my opinion, unless you have the top grades then I wouldn't bother applying.

Perhaps that's just your school - I know reams of Scottish people studying medicine at St Andrews. I don't think things are as cut and dry as you're making out. A lot of people would prefer a traditional course with a pre-clinical/clinical divide, and one of the main reasons I applied to Cambridge and St Andrews was that I wanted the opportunity to move after 3 years in the one place - I don't consider it to be a negative thing; for me, that's "ideal". Students at St Andrews also have a lot of choice over where they can go for clinicals - the Scottish Executive are really pushing for people to transfer to Scottish universities and a few of them end up at Oxbridge each year.

Clearly not, if you're applying to med school en mass