Imperial Medical Biosciences 2024 entry

Rejected with 4A* predicted, 1x AS A, 11x9s at GCSE, packed personal statement. Ngl i'm absolutely spiralling right now. Hopefully things will look a little brighter in the morning.

Rejected with 4A* predicted, 1x AS A, 11x9s at GCSE, packed personal statement. Ngl i'm absolutely spiralling right now. Hopefully things will look a little brighter in the morning.

Gonna be some vague answers anyway

Oh my god. How could it be?? How do they shortlist the students?

Oh my god. How could it be?? How do they shortlist the students?

Yes, I was at their open day and I talked to the students and supervisors and I can confirm its nearly 90% e- learning (online self learning) the other 10% is mixed when 1 or 2 guest lectures and the f2f sessions you have in a group (not including a teacher).
They mentioned this course isn't for someone who cant individually revise material (ie. self learn) as there are little to no lectures/tutorial sessions. Hoped that helped.

I think it’s just full

my parents just think its a case of accepting for international students over home students, but i have no clue

I have received a reply from admissions.
They basically did not answer my question as to why i was rejected.
'Unfortunately, on this occasion, competition for places on the programme was extremely high and the Admissions Tutor felt that your application was not as strong as your peers. Your application was more geared for studying Medicine than Medical Biosciences. This meant that the motivation to study Medical Biosciences was not evident. We would suggest that you make your motivation to study Medical Biosciences more clear.
Please note that the Admissions cycle has now finished, and we will not be able to provide further feedback.'
For the record my application was geared towards Medical Biosciences and on multiple occasions I highlighted my intent to study it. I just believe that the volume of applications this year was too high and they had to reject all other students once spaces filled up despite how competitive the application was. Hope this response helps anyone ^^

thanks for sharing!
i didnt plan on going to imperial originally but applied since i had a free fifth space and got an offer. I'm considering imperial since i can stay at home and dont have to commute (money efficient) but i was hoping id make some friends at uni 🥲 was wondering, do you know what format the e-learning is, like online lectures or just notes?
also, how often roughly u have to go in for said lectures/f2f sessions?
tyy

thanks for sharing!
i didnt plan on going to imperial originally but applied since i had a free fifth space and got an offer. I'm considering imperial since i can stay at home and dont have to commute (money efficient) but i was hoping id make some friends at uni 🥲 was wondering, do you know what format the e-learning is, like online lectures or just notes?
also, how often roughly u have to go in for said lectures/f2f sessions?
tyy

Hey! Imperial medic here, I was curious about how applications were going this year so decided to check out this thread, I've got tons of friends doing BMB at Imperial and a decent chunk who live at home in London instead of accom for this reason.
IMO you will make the majority of your friends through societies and sports, not to mention BMB is a labwork heavy course so you'll be spending ample time with others on your course so I really wouldn't worry about making friends.
Also for attendance some lectures at random are given QR codes for attendance which you have to scan but normally someone will make a private snap story and share with most people in the year so that everyone can scan it at the right time so as long as you're keeping up with work it's pretty chill.
For med we get quite a lot of GOLs (guided online learnings) but they're pretty useless to study as there's already a medicine/BMB notebank which has decent notes on literally EVERYTHING so most of the time it's acc more effective to stay home and work, saving yourself the commute time but it's rlly personal preference.
Goodluck and hopefully see you next year!