St. Andrews Medicine Applicants 2011 :D

Well if they don't check everyone could pretty much make up their work experience etc and make their ps look great! Hmm I wonder how many people have done that?.

I completely see your point with the fact that a lot of money goes into travelling expense, I had to expend 3 days in Birmingham last December and I am currently looking at flights and hotels for my St Andrews interview. However, I think that it is something that you should have thought about from the beginning, you are not an international applicant- you are EU- which means that you are competing not only with other EUs but also with the Home students and I think its unfair to think that EU students should be given an advantage due to the costs of attending interview because some Home applicants- say from London- may also have to travel to St Andrews and this will also cost a lot.

If someone is going though bad times and believe that due to the cost of the trip they won't be able to attend the interview I think that they should contact the universities and maybe they offer to have the interview via telephone or skype.

International students will have to put a lot of money into transport and accommodation just for an interview but I still think that they should not be given an advantage for that either because if you can't afford a 3 day trip how are you going to pay for the huge international tuition fees when international students don't get any loans?

If you want to study outside your home country then you have take into account the expenditure that you will have to make even though sometimes they will be for nothing.



I am soo sorry to hear about the struggle you are going through but I think you should be glad of living in the UK which does offer more support to the unemployed than other EU countries, Spain for example is giving less and less support every year and this is because the whole economy is ruined.

How is your UCAS going? Where else did you apply? Remember that there is still hope for you to get an interview at St Andrews
Also, if you have to go through a gap year and you can't find a job outside the healthcare services then maybe you could travel abroad and join a non profitable organisation like Red Cross while having a job in that country. I believe that here in Spain an English person will have a wide range of jobs especially if you try to learn some basic Spanish.

Don't get so worried yet, the UCAS cycle is not over!!
Good Luck, I really hope you get the place you deserve.
PM me if you ever need someone to talk to.

Areyousure you are correct teafil is not an international applicant and is treated exactly the same as every other "home"applicant. At least she has the oppertunity of applying to britain. How many Eu applicants apply to Romaina? With regards to myself I thought about a gap year abroad but these too have to be funded in some way

Areyousure you are correct teafil is not an international applicant and is treated exactly the same as every other "home"applicant. At least she has the oppertunity of applying to britain. How many Eu applicants apply to Romaina? With regards to myself I thought about a gap year abroad but these too have to be funded in some way

Will you be over 18 during your gap year because many charities need volunteers for various things like teaching, looking after kids in summer camp... but as you don't get paid they do take care of the transport and accommodation so maybe you should look into this as volunteering for a charity abroad will be an excellent experience not only for your PS but also for yourself.

I never asked for getting an advantage, i just said I wish they would understand us. To be honest i wouldn't like getting in a university knowing that there were better applicant out there. I am extremely correct even with my self haha ! But yeah you are right sorry for using the international word... i only mean out of UK. There is still a stressing part for us. For example at Dundee I completely started to shake because I didn't really understand the names of the cards (cubs and spears and so on). After so many years of studying English at high levels i just black out because i never encountered card names ever before. So in this case i do think they should look at internationals/EU applicants different because if we don't know a word or something it doesn't mean we will not make good doctors...

I did take into account all the financial effort my parents will be doing and I know what to expect.

I also mentioned in my previous post about intellectual efforts so please don't think I'm saying i should be entitled to a place just because I pay an extra plane ticket or something... I guess this conversation turned out the wrong way... for me eat least

don't worry, I completely got your point but I just wanted to say that I just didn't agree.

I am sorry to hear about the naming cards in Dundee, but I don't think that will be so relevant so don't worry other things are more important than that and I am sure they know it.

oh no, don't start getting ukcathater ready for a gap year. The cycle isn't even over yet! There's still hope.

Forget about gap years for now, everyone should be focussing on exams and interviews if they have any.

Frustrated is not the word..................Where's the rope!

Frustrated is not the word..................Where's the rope!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! It is me lol

rejected from dundee and liverpool still waiting for Aberdeen

Does anyone know if st Andrews have gave any interviews out to people with 5A*'s at gcse?!
I saw someone from last year say they said five a*'s wasn't high enough then someone with four a*'s get an offer :/
Gutted I've only heard from one place but I guess that's a good thing

Yea I did
My GCSEs are shocking and ive got an interview there and its quite an early one!

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Congratulations on yourinterview! I hope it goeswell

Haha thanks so do I, I soooo badly want to go to St Andrews! It's quite funny though because I sent them a letter of recomendation I got from a surgeon I did work experience with, he also teaches medicine .. so that could be why?! I hope St Andrews dont look at me GCSEs too much. I found out though that they interview people with higher UKCATs first.

I hope you get an interview as well! Where else have u applied, heard from anywhere else?

I don't think they interview in the order of the UKCAT scores. There were people interviewed in December with scores of 670. I have 680 and my interview is on the 9th of February... so they don't exactly respect the order of the UKCAT scores. Plus I've noticed so many people with scores of 630ish got interviews already ...

Perhaps they interview Scottish students first and then English or EU applicants... Or perhaps they do it all randomly. I might be mistaking though

90%Scottish before christmas..........great!