2012 Medicine Re-Applicants Mark I

Thank you soooo much!!!
Its just a pain that you dont know what the cut off is going to be!
My plan will be try my hardest to beat my previous score and then I shouldnt be too concerned with cut offs as long as I dont go near Sheffield

Sound ok?

I'm planning on reapplying And I'm absolutely, 100% determined to make me gap year as productive as possible and really have an awesome application ready for 2012!

I've only one concern, which hopefully you guys can help me with. With a LOT of work I should be able to get AAA in my A levels (In Chemistry, Biology and Maths) and that's cool because, aside from oxbridge and the other 'top' universities, AAA is pretty much the general entry requirement.

However, considering how tough it's been this year, do you think that I will even have a realistic application with AAA? So many candidates seem to have at least one A* and I sure as hell won't be able to achieve that. When it comes down to grades, A* trumps A everytime...

So, if I achieve AAA is it definitely worth reapplying? Medicine is all I've ever wanted to do.

That sounds like a plan

I'm sure your score will go up, pm me if you want after you have done the UKCAT

Yep you'll be fine

If you think about it, with everybody who applies first time round, the university takes a chance on that person getting their predicted grades. But once you've already got them, they'll only care whether or not you've met the entry requirements. And thats it! An A* probably wouldn't hurt, but I doubt it would make much difference.



Can I PM you too?

That sounds like a plan

I'm sure your score will go up, pm me if you want after you have done the UKCAT

Hey
I was wandering what sort of things you did in your gap year.
I'm having trouble planning everything out.
Thanks

First year I worked as a hca

This year I taught kids once a week, attending talks at the science museums Dana centre - only went to two, but don't tell barts ..went abroad to pakistan to volunteer in an eye camp, for like 3 days ...apart from that done jack all.. although not in a single interview was I asked about my gap year

Oh cool.
What I can't get around my head is this. We apply again starting this summer, do another p.s, improve ukcat, send off app and then wait for uni's to reply. After uni's reply by next march/april or so, do we then do most of our proposed travelling etc?
Btw did you go pakistan this yr?

Hey, haleem

Did you manage to get my private message.

Hey, haleem

Did you manage to get my private message.

Think its better to do it around this time

Or any time before mid November (unis usually start sending offers after this, bar Birmingham), or 2 weeks during the Christmas break (this is when I went )

You could just put a line or two in your ps, saying what your travelling plans are and what you hope to learn. My mistake during my second application was that in my ps I wrote it too much in the future tense, if you get me...as in I went on about things I hope to learn and what I'm planning to do, basically too much was dedicated to my gap year plans... so it seemed like I hadn't actually done much :/ so this year I changed it back to how it was in my first application(during a2), more on what I had done! Hope that makes sense

although not in a single interview was I asked about my gap year

Same. Hell, I was asked more last year when I wasn't on a gap year about what I'd do if I took one as opposed to this year when I was actually on one! Although, if you're doing something that you want to mention make sure you insert it in when you're answering questions at interview. I tried to mention as much as possible, to the extent where I probably waffled at times but there you go.

Yeah, although some unis probably do, but I doubt it

even if they don't ask you about your gap year, make sure you find a way to bring in any valuable stuff you have done e.g hca/travelling

wats hca ?

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