What are your next steps?

whats a near miss offer?

Say you had an offer for AAA but you achieved AAB they may still accept you on to the course

ohh im not in that position (going into year 13)
but a family friend applied to kings (medicine) with A*AA and 3070 b1 ucat and got an offer in march.
on results day she ended up getting ABB but was still accepted (i think it was due to her ucat!)

She was accepted with ABB?!

yep shocked me as well
A in biology and B's in chem and maths

Hiya,

Firstly congratulations to everyone who has completed your post-16 exams and going through the immensely stressful medicine application process.

We have noticed this year that a large number of people did not achieve the grades that they were predicted, this did result in people (not applying to study medicine) who were near misses still being accepted onto their chosen course. We wondered if anyone applying to study medicine received any near-miss offers?

Adding on to this, if you did not receive an offer to study medicine, what are your next steps?

-Take a gap year and reapply to study UG medicine
-Resit
-Apply for medicine with a foundation year
-Do another UG course with the view to study GEM
-Decide to pursue something else

Thanks,

R

Hiya,

Firstly congratulations to everyone who has completed your post-16 exams and going through the immensely stressful medicine application process.

We have noticed this year that a large number of people did not achieve the grades that they were predicted, this did result in people (not applying to study medicine) who were near misses still being accepted onto their chosen course. We wondered if anyone applying to study medicine received any near-miss offers?

Adding on to this, if you did not receive an offer to study medicine, what are your next steps?

-Take a gap year and reapply to study UG medicine
-Resit
-Apply for medicine with a foundation year
-Do another UG course with the view to study GEM
-Decide to pursue something else

Thanks,

R

Well that’s very interesting

@KA_P@04MR17@GANFYD thought it’d be of interest to you^

ohh im not in that position (going into year 13)
but a family friend applied to kings (medicine) with A*AA and 3070 b1 ucat and got an offer in march.
on results day she ended up getting ABB but was still accepted (i think it was due to her ucat!)

I didn't apply to Medicine this year because I was silly. I'm starting psychology and will be doing GEM down the line. Seems crazy and insane, but that about sums me up and probably why it's not such a bad idea for me to go study psychology first! Waiting for the 2026 GEM entry thread to be created to start hanging around there - if possible I'd like OP, pretty please

thats mad because i know someone who got a conditional offer for kings and she got ABB on results day and got rejected. ig some people are lucky

Hiya,

Firstly congratulations to everyone who has completed your post-16 exams and going through the immensely stressful medicine application process.

We have noticed this year that a large number of people did not achieve the grades that they were predicted, this did result in people (not applying to study medicine) who were near misses still being accepted onto their chosen course. We wondered if anyone applying to study medicine received any near-miss offers?

Adding on to this, if you did not receive an offer to study medicine, what are your next steps?

-Take a gap year and reapply to study UG medicine
-Resit
-Apply for medicine with a foundation year
-Do another UG course with the view to study GEM
-Decide to pursue something else

Thanks,

R

Why don’t you just take a gap year? GEM is much more competitive and expensive too

I didn't apply to Medicine this year because I was silly. I'm starting psychology and will be doing GEM down the line. Seems crazy and insane, but that about sums me up and probably why it's not such a bad idea for me to go study psychology first! Waiting for the 2026 GEM entry thread to be created to start hanging around there - if possible I'd like OP, pretty please

I just took a gap year. I got a pesky B in Chemistry and that just turned off logical thought in my brain so I ended up applying to Psychology and by the time my lapse of reason subsided... it was too late to do anything about it for 2023 entry. And taking a second gap year is really not possible right now for me. So GEM it is! I'm aware of how competitive it is - the GEM programme at my own university (which is one of the ones I'll be aiming for) has 36 applicants per place... which is decidedly hard on anyone's books, and it makes A100 competion seem like a walk in the park. But I'm afraid I cannot change that now so I just have to carry on! I will carry on.

Expected AAA but got BBB so gonna apply for foundation year. UCAT end of September