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cambridge vs oxford

medschooljoker

did more people apply to cambridge or oxford this year to study medicine?

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Reply 1

Sarky

www.ucas.ac.uk

There you go :smile:

if you look for a page with stats information (its there somewhere) you can find out for yourself.

thanks alot

I'm 99% sure that it's cambridge. They have a much larger intake, so I would assume that they also have more applicants.

Reply 4

Bilal

Yeah Cambridhe usually get more applicants for med... I think they interview everyone? Heard that, but not sure?

Reply 5

visesh

Bilal786

Yeah Cambridhe usually get more applicants for med... I think they interview everyone? Heard that, but not sure?

Cambrige interview almost everyone (~97% IIRC) while Oxford interview about 1/3 - 1/2 of all applicants, based on BMAT results. I think Cambridge may follow suit soon.

BTW I am NOT following you Bilal :wink:

Reply 6

Bilal

visesh

BTW I am NOT following you Bilal :wink:

Yeah, right. :rolleyes:

Reply 7

visesh

Bilal786

Yeah, right. :rolleyes:

Well as someone with a place at Cambridge, to read medicine, I just HAD to read this thread...

Reply 8

Elles

Sarky

www.ucas.ac.uk

There you go :smile:

if you look for a page with stats information (its there somewhere) you can find out for yourself.

i'm such a super helpful type.. :p:

Cambridge 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1647
accepts 285
ratio: 5.8 per accept

Oxford 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1499
accepts 184
ratio: 8.1 per accept

hope this helps.

Reply 9

visesh

Nandra, you should also look at the individual colleges- some have a higher than average number of applicants per place, and other have lower. IMO this is a far more important stat to look at (if any) than looking at the unis as a whole.

Reply 10

Elles

visesh

IMO this is a far more important stat to look at (if any) than looking at the unis as a whole.

but taking into account Oxford's nifty, new more centralised medical admissions procedure, perhaps the college numbers game is less relevant here? :p:

Reply 11

visesh

Elles

but taking into account Oxford's nifty, new more centralised medical admissions procedure, perhaps the college numbers game is less relevant here? :p:

meh I guess :p:

Reply 12

Fluffy

Elles

i'm such a super helpful type.. :p:

Cambridge 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1647
accepts 285
ratio: 5.8 per accept

Oxford 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1499
accepts 184
ratio: 8.1 per accept

hope this helps.

Wow! Oxford was waaay up on normal in 2004...

and Lol at Med and Dentisrty - neither ox nor bridge offer medicine, silly UCAS :wink:

Reply 13

Elles

Fluffy

and Lol at Med and Dentisrty - neither ox nor bridge offer medicine, silly UCAS :wink:

well, yep that was the J-something-or-other-subject-code.. so for the sake of painstaking accuracy in my high-tech manipulation of online statistics i felt i should include that in my report.. :p:

not sure if it was that up.. hmm..prospectus is ~ 5 something per place i think currently & that takes into account the past 3, but generally there's a rise every year..

Reply 14

Fluffy

5 per place is the figure I'm used to hearing for Oxford.

Chem is only 1.8!

Reply 15

Fluffy

Elles

well, yep that was the J-something-or-other-subject-code.. so for the sake of painstaking accuracy in my high-tech manipulation of online statistics i felt i should include that in my report.. :p:

not sure if it was that up.. hmm..prospectus is ~ 5 something per place i think currently & that takes into account the past 3, but generally there's a rise every year..

What sort of spanner am I - I meant dentistry too :wink:

Reply 16

fishpaste

centralised admissions? ewww =P

Reply 17

visesh

Fluffy

What sort of spanner am I - I meant dentistry too :wink:

A vastly educated one :p:

Reply 18

Elles

Fluffy

Chem is only 1.8!

but chem students are very important.. :love:

fishpaste

centralised admissions? ewww =P

what i actually said

..new more centralised medical admissions procedure, perhaps the college numbers game is less relevant here?

so making sure all applicants called to interview are interviewed by 2 colleges, blind to where they actually applied is a bad thing? & there was me thinking it would help ensure that the 'best' all get in, even if they apply to absurdly 'competitive' colleges could only be a good thing. gives applicants two chances..& it reduces the whole stressful 'pooling' round of further interviews for certain people i should think.. :rolleyes:

Reply 19

Sarky

Elles

i'm such a super helpful type.. :p:

Cambridge 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1647
accepts 285
ratio: 5.8 per accept

Oxford 2004 (Medicine & Dentistry) - 1499
accepts 184
ratio: 8.1 per accept

hope this helps.