^&* Medicine application for 2010. BIG CURIOUS QUESTION ROFL^&*

hey guys, if you apply to 4 medical schools and have your 5th choice as optometry, can you write a separate personal statement? Would the unis just reject you because they can see you are applying for medicine?

Reply 1

Cities

No and depends

Reply 2

Degausser

You use the same statement. But because of the transferrable skills and attributes you show on your personal statement, you will still be considered. This isn't true for all subjects, but for relating less competitive fields such as optometry, you should still have a shot.

The best thing to do will be to phone the universities to see whether they will consider you with a medicine personal statement.

Reply 3

Democracy

It will be fine, they usually don't mind.

Reply 4

angelmxxx

Should be fine, they'll probably be used to it.
You can email their admissions department and ask if you can send them a different PS though :smile:

Reply 5

terpineol

Should be fine, a mate managed a dentistry offer from a medicine personal statement.

Reply 6

Shockley

I say go for it.

p.s. whats with the freaky thread title? :wtf:

Reply 7

themedicalgeek

I think you can only write 1 personal statement for all of your UCAS app. just make sure that you dont focus in med. make sure all that you mention fits both med and optometry.

BTW: wtf with the ROFL, how is that funny? people wont take you seriously if you throw **** like that into a tite

Reply 8

GodspeedGehenna

I'm surprised none of you have seen this idiot spamming all over TSR.

I somehow doubt he is/was a serious medicine applicant.

Reply 9

Cities

GodspeedGehenna

I'm surprised none of you have seen this idiot spamming all over TSR.

I somehow doubt he is/was a serious medicine applicant.

He seems to know about some obscure aspects of medicine, knows about the UKCAT and has posted extensively in the Maths and Biology subforums. Whether or not he's a serious applicant is irrelevant, it seems like he genuinely wanted to know [it's not exactly a spammy question is it?], even if he expressed it in a strange way.