What Happens If I Send My Medicine Application Late?

Hey Everyone, I haven’t taken my UKCAT because I want to take it on the 2nd of October. If I get low on the UKCAT (which is likely because I’m dumb) I won’t send my application in for medicine, but if I score an OK grade then I will, would it be too late to send my application on the 4th of October or will I stand no chance.
Thanks (and be honest :smile:

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Reply 1

ThePenguinMafia

isn't the deadline the 15th?

Reply 2

mkchelsea

The Deadline for Medicine is 15th October, so if you send it on the 4th you will be fine, actually earlier then alot of people. But just make sure that your school/college has no internal deadlines.

Reply 3

Liar

Yep this will be earlier than a lot of the other applicants. I think i'm sending mine off on the 8th.

Reply 4

Larrisa

Why don't you just send it anyway? UKCAT isn't the be-all and end-all.

4th is fine although our school's deadline is 26th September.

Reply 5

Jason2k6101

If you're sending it through your school/college, then you should consider how long the "checking" processes take - i.e. how long it takes for the admin staff and other people in charge of checking your UCAS application (to the extent of perfection) to finish and finally get an application 'sent off'.

At my college, it apparently takes 1-2 weeks to do (yeah, seems pretty long), which is why we have an earlier, internal deadline of September 26th to get our UCAS applications finished (to the best of our ability).

Otherwise the final deadline is October 15th, like people have said. It doesn't particularly matter when your application is received by admissions tutors - just as long as it's sent off to UCAS before the 15th.

Reply 6

mkchelsea

My college's deadline was last week! So I'm finished with that. But am I mistaken in believing that UKCAT will send off your result to your prospective Unis? If this is true, then you can send off you application before your test.

Reply 7

nimz

I'm sending it late because i have to prepare everythingggggg my self :frown:

. Because my head of year is refusing to support my application as she hates me :frown:

Reply 8

Jason2k6101

Yes, your UKCAT results eventually make their way to UCAS and to your prospective unis. My college's careers adviser rang up UCAS earlier today, however, and was told that applicants should still put their average or total points scored on the UKCAT under the qualifications section of the application (if they've taken it already, that is).

Reply 9

mkchelsea

nimz

I'm sending it late because i have to prepare everythingggggg my self :frown:

. Because my head of year is refusing to support my application as she hates me :frown:

I have a solution to that. It involves alot of heavy weapons and beatings. It worked for me :biggrin:

. That reminds, Its time for my pills............

Reply 10

malaikah

nimz

I'm sending it late because i have to prepare everythingggggg my self :frown:

. Because my head of year is refusing to support my application as she hates me :frown:

That sucks! Is there noone in your school who will actually support you, like a Bio/ Chem teacher? And why does your head of year hate you? :frown:

Go ahead and prove her wrong then! :smile:

As everyone's saying, the deadline for medical applications is 15th October, so you won't be late. The UKCAT is only one element taken into consideration when deciding to offer applicants an interview, so if you don't do too well in it, don't worry too much about it. I went to the Leicester Medical Open Day, and the Lecturer actually said that the uni didn't know what to do with the results! As in, they didn't know what they meant... so why not considering applying there? LOL! :wink:

Reply 11

AEH

Before it comes up, sending it early or late within the 1st Sept-15th Oct window makes no difference because you are only sending it to UCAS as an intermediary. They will send applications in batches onto the universities who will have an internally allocated number of interviews/offers they make in each of those. There are then waiting list systems to move suitable candidates from earlier full batches to later batches with spare offers to give.