The Official "Which Dental School Should I Apply To?" Thread

Are you applying as a grad or resit applicant?
- Plymouth require A*AA so unless you are eligible for their contextual offer of AAB, you don't meet their requirement
- Sheffield: what are your 2 grade Bs in? Sheffield required English Lang and sciences at grade 7/A
- Liverpool: yes, but be aware they use GCSEs to shortlist for interview
- Newcastle: yes

I thought Kings and Barts were the only uni’s that require A*AA?

GCSE= 5 As in sciences maths and business
UCAT= 2810 band 3
a level predictions= 3 A's
done 1 week clinical placement
done 6 week online work experience

As an undergraduate (I’m in year 13).
I think I’m eligible for their contextual offer but I’m wondering how I would confirm this with them?..

Also my B’s were in English Literature and Numeracy (I got A’s for science and english language)

Is 2640 band 1 ucat too risky for kings? I’m so upset because I got 2850 band 1 last year - doing it at home this time was the biggest mistake

Hi guys, my stats are:
GCSEs - 99988777766 (6 in maths)
UCAT - 2680 Band 1
A levels predicted - A*A*A* and an A in my EPQ
I've done 4 days at a general dental practise and 5 days virtual work exp w Plymouth

I'm thinking of applying to Newcastle (PARTNERS), Manchester, Sheffield & Liverpool.
Do you think my stats are strong enough for these uni's? Do you think my stats are strong enough for these Uni's? Im worried about my GCSE's and UCAT not being strong enough for some of these unis?

Can't tell as you haven't provided information regarding GSCEs and A Levels.

Hi guys so I just did my UCAT and I’m very disappointed with my score (632.5) I want to apply for undergraduate dentistry as a graduate, I have been predicted a first in my course and now I have no idea on where to apply to, I feel like my score is so low and I don’t have a clue on what unis would accept it

My gcses are strong and a levels are a*aa, just worried about my ucat

Hi I'm currently in year 13 and unsure where to apply.
my GCSEs are:
maths - 8
English lit - 7
English lang 7
combined science - 8:8
French - 8
Psychology - 7
History - 7
Sociology - 6

A- levels
Biology
Chemistry
Psychology
I've not been told my predictions but from what I can gather it would be around A*AA/AAA

UCAT Score 2590 band 1

My current choices are kings college,liverpool,glasgow and last one unsure
I wanted to apply to Birmingham but I don't think my GCSEs and ucat will be high enough as I know they have a high weighting on that.Kings is my risky choice because of the grades but the others are interchangeable.I want to use the band 1 to my advantage but many universities don't look as sjt until interview or even at all.Newcastle has a cut off score which is very close to what I got so might be risky and I think Glasgow do as well im just not sure what it is.

Any advice on my uni choices or other unis that I could have a better chance of being accepted at would be great.Based on this information where would be my best chance do you think?
thanks

Hi guys so I just did my UCAT and I’m very disappointed with my score (632.5) I want to apply for undergraduate dentistry as a graduate, I have been predicted a first in my course and now I have no idea on where to apply to, I feel like my score is so low and I don’t have a clue on what unis would accept it

based off the interim results, would newcastle & glasgow still be good choices for 2820 b1?

Hi,

Currently year 13
UCAT 2700
SJT Band 2
GCSE: Maths 9, English Lang 9, Chemistry 8, Biology 8, English Lit 7, Physics 7, DT 7, Computer Science 7, RE 6, Spanish 5.
A levels: Biology, Maths & Chemistry predicted A,A,A wanted to apply to Cardiff, Shefield, Birmingham & Plymouth but just seen Plymouth want A*,A,A.
I think my UCAT is probably just too low for Bristol. Any advice on final choice.

Many thanks.

Your UCAT isn't awful (it's definitely above avg in the interim results so would say it's good) so If you really wanted to go to Bristol I wouldn't rule it out - especially if you have a really good PS to support it
Avoid Plymouth if you don't have the A*AA. Your other choices are good.

Thank you.

Hello,

I'm in year 13 this year and hoping to apply to dentistry this year.

GCSES:

Maths - 8
Biology - 9
Chemistry - 9
Physics - 9
English lit - 7
English language - 7
History - 9
RE - 9
computer science - 8
Geography - 7
French - 3 lol

UCAT:

2810 and Band 2


I will be predicted AAA

I'm not sure where to apply any advice would be helpful

Thanks in advance

Hi I'm currently in year 13 and unsure where to apply.
my GCSEs are:
maths - 8
English lit - 7
English lang 7
combined science - 8:8
French - 8
Psychology - 7
History - 7
Sociology - 6

A- levels
Biology
Chemistry
Psychology
I've not been told my predictions but from what I can gather it would be around A*AA/AAA

UCAT Score 2590 band 1

My current choices are kings college,liverpool,glasgow and last one unsure
I wanted to apply to Birmingham but I don't think my GCSEs and ucat will be high enough as I know they have a high weighting on that.Kings is my risky choice because of the grades but the others are interchangeable.I want to use the band 1 to my advantage but many universities don't look as sjt until interview or even at all.Newcastle has a cut off score which is very close to what I got so might be risky and I think Glasgow do as well im just not sure what it is.

Any advice on my uni choices or other unis that I could have a better chance of being accepted at would be great.Based on this information where would be my best chance do you think?
thanks

I’ve just emailed Plymouth regarding their A*AA-AAB requirement because it’s a bit misleading on their website - I’ll get back to you on what they say regarding their requirements and whether a non-contextual AAA prediction would be acceptable.

@klywi03 read above ^