Manchester or Barts?

I think you're forgetting that Manchester Medical school is in.. ahem... MANCHESTER:

Thats quite a good PDF but tbh but it can still be misleading and im not fully convinced For example 97% of manc grads got their first choice for this year and for peninsula 96%, so how come they aren't in the top? Also Manc generally does better in the exams, aren't MTAS based on exams?

See there is actually only one person on this forum who actively says they don't like Manchester, the rest of Manchester medics I have come across like the course. All the other complaints I hear are from people like you who say they know this and that person etc.



Thats quite a good PDF but tbh but it can still be misleading and im not fully convinced For example 97% of manc grads got their first choice for this year and for peninsula 96%, so how come they aren't in the top? Also Manc generally does better in the exams, aren't MTAS based on exams?

People like to think there is less PBL at Barts but there isn't, I've compared 2 timetables from the med schools and there isn't a difference.

The changes aren't rumours, it has been very clearly stated on the website and also there are official documents, I really wish I had kept the link now, but they were posted on a blog by a Manchester student. The Barts SSR is the same as manc in the times and independent.

Tbh I'm getting bored now with all this debate about Manchester is general.
Your very right, just go to the place you want to go to.

Hah that's quite funny, that generally sums up the north of England though.
Let's face it though, the location of manc med school is much nicer that queens Mary. Though it's not exactly a big deal.

First, go look up how MTAS works. I simply cannot believe you're calling bull**** on an official document published by a university without even understanding how the system works. Christ, you don't even seem to understand how examination in med school works.

There is less PBL at Barts as well, I don't know what time tables you've been looking at but I've spoken to Manc medics. I know what their days are like. I know what my days are like. There is more PBL at Manc. Timetables vary week by week, term by term, year by year and weather you actually need to go to any of it. Speaking to current fresher Manc medics they're doing much more PBL than me.

I'm not around to slam Manchester, my original comment about not knowing a happy Manc medic was made as banter. I am simply stating the original reasons why I personally chose not to apply to Manchester.

Ignore league tables, ignore MRCP etc pass marks, go to the place you want to go. You're going to be spending the next five years there. Look at the courses (content), look at the areas, look at the union (where you'll be living basically, roll on 800k redevelopment next year!) and talk to students at both. If you decide your medical school based on league tables you're making a big mistake.

What do you expect? Me to tell my friend that come on TSR cause someone would like to know you hate Manchester? Theres only one or two medical students from each university active members on TSR, what do you expect?

I just read all the comments Ryan has posted on this thread, your a retard.

I'm not expecting anything I was just saying that generally the medics on here like the medical school, and you can't generalise like everyone seems to be doing by saying that everyone hates the medical school.

Why because I don't base all my opinions and decisions on what people say on these threads and that I'm defending a med school?

I would neg you if I could. Manchester is crap as hell.

Thats quite a good PDF but tbh but it can still be misleading and im not fully convinced For example 97% of manc grads got their first choice for this year and for peninsula 96%, so how come they aren't in the top? Also Manc generally does better in the exams, aren't MTAS based on exams?

People like to think there is less PBL at Barts but there isn't, I've compared 2 timetables from the med schools and there isn't a difference.

The changes aren't rumours, it has been very clearly stated on the website and also there are official documents, I really wish I had kept the link now, but they were posted on a blog by a Manchester student. The Barts SSR is the same as manc in the times and independent.

Tbh I'm getting bored now with all this debate about Manchester is general.
Your very right, just go to the place you want to go to.

and that I'm defending a med school?

Exactly. You're defending it. You're pulling out all the stops on a subjective, self-centered, last-ditch attempt to show that Manchester is the best medical school ever to grace this Earth because that's where you've been accepted. Even going as far as dismissing official BTL documents that show it is on the bottom half of the MTAS rankings...

Any thread that has mentioned Manchester these past few months you've jumped on in an attempt to justify to yourself your decision to apply/firm there, using notions of "well the course is **** yeh but they said they're gonna fix it" or whatnot to try and discredit arguments.

I wasn't going to say anything but it's kinda irritating me now.

Am I the person that have said the pathetically low ditched statements, let me think .... NO!!!!!

Not at all, I would defend any med school when it's being subjected to people constantly bitching about it and saying that it's crap. It annoys me that people feel it's ok to straight out say it's a crap medical school because it's demeaning and just low.

If you actually read my posts correctly I never said I would dismiss it, I said it's very contradictory and that I don't understand it >< that by no way incinuates that I don't believe it or think it's rubbish.

And yes I drop into all the Manchester threads because you always get an idiot in them which thinks it's alright to say that Manchester is a complete crap medical school and then goes on about how it has low student SR and the new course is a rumour, and I feel the need that I have to explain by using all the info I have gathered because people are too ignorant to look at the other side of the argument.

If someone went on another medical school thread and started being a complete ass, people would defend that medical school. That's all in doing with Manchester. I never started the bitching and rudeness on this thread at all!!!!
Someone else did, and then as soon as I say a comment defending Manc all of a sudden I'm the one being argumentative and people gang up on me. Well tbh it's a load of bull****. All I was doing was actually helping the orig poster and asking them what the decision making going before other people got involved.



Again this thread has turned into another argument about Manchester! I wasn't the one who started it! This thread was pretty nice before others had to get their bitch faces on and get involved.

Hey, we're not "ganging" up on you for the fun of it. You seem to have gotten many of your "facts" wrong. The fact that multiple people are calling you up on it should serve as a reassurance to those who are unsure about who to believe. Anyway, the posters who challenged you on the first page were just sceptical about a point you raised.

I respect you for sticking up for Manchester, albeit in an over-defensive manner, but don't mislead people whilst doing so.

People like Manchester, not everyone hates it: FACT.

People hate Manchester, not everybody likes it: FACT.

Just because it's your opinion it doesn't make it intrinsically more valid than somebody else's (eg. Daveo's that I've seen you belittle in another thread).

Exactly. You're defending it. You're pulling out all the stops on a subjective, self-centered, last-ditch attempt to show that Manchester is the best medical school ever to grace this Earth because that's where you've been accepted. Even going as far as dismissing official BTL documents that show it is on the bottom half of the MTAS rankings...

Any thread that has mentioned Manchester these past few months you've jumped on in an attempt to justify to yourself your decision to apply/firm there, using notions of "well the course is **** yeh but they said they're gonna fix it" or whatnot to try and discredit arguments.

I wasn't going to say anything but it's kinda irritating me now.

Hi Beska, I have no interest in this thread, just wondering where I could find these rankings. Thanks