Anyone got more than 1 offer from medical schools

Well the London schools all have well established ties with each other, and some have links with Oxbridge. These are formal links, although they aren't supposed to be used for sharing applicant information.

To support my theory, obviously I can't prove it, but I've spoken to people who are "in the know", within the application process, who insist that med schools can see where else you've applied (if they want to bother finding out) and that they do "talk" to each, to a certain degree. By no means does every school talk to every other school, but certainly some schools talk to some others. Additionally, I've seen a few cases of strange patterns of acceptances/rejections that make me think that something else is going on in some schools.

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Well the London schools all have well established ties with each other, and some have links with Oxbridge. These are formal links, although they aren't supposed to be used for sharing applicant information.

To support my theory, obviously I can't prove it, but I've spoken to people who are "in the know", within the application process, who insist that med schools can see where else you've applied (if they want to bother finding out) and that they do "talk" to each, to a certain degree. By no means does every school talk to every other school, but certainly some schools talk to some others. Additionally, I've seen a few cases of strange patterns of acceptances/rejections that make me think that something else is going on in some schools.

my friend got rejected from all her places except for oxford
weird, isnt it?!

No, not really.

Oxford value a lot of different things to other Medical Schools, so it's entirely possible you could excel in an interview there but not be at all what other Medical Schools are looking for.

For the record I wasn't taking the piss, I actually thought that when every person i met on freshers had one offer.

Ever thought that was because it was the only university they could get into?
I jest.

Hmm.. people who are "in the know" - are these just people you know who've been rejected by somewhere and think that this must be the reason for it?

"Strange" patterns of rejections/offers result form the fact that each med school has its own admissions criteria, and these criteria can differ widely. It's not uncommon or strange, for instance, for people who get offers from Oxbridge to be rejected from London schools or elsewhere - academics alone will get you an interview at Oxford, the same isn't true for the majority of other places.

Not at all: I'm talking about people who are actually involved in the admissions processes at certain well known unis. Obviously I'm not going to put names all over the internet, but to be honest, I would have assumed that people would be observant enough to notice and question stuff like this for themselves. Apparently not.


I appreciate that different med schools have different criteria. I'm talking about patterns that have been observed over a period of time, involving numerous students (more than could be accounted for by chance alone).