Edinburgh Medical School Applicants 2012

I've got 3A*'s, 6A's and a B. There int't exactly a guarantee of an interview with those grades lol.

Great decision to apply to Edinburgh guys

I applied last year and will be starting the course next month (so excited!) so I'd be happy to help with any questions you have about admissions, the course etc. I was a Scottish applicant so I don't know too much about the English requirements but I'll do my best to help!

Edinburgh is a fantastic city with a great medical school, you won't regret applying there!

Just interested to know...what made you choose Edinburgh over the other med schools? Well done for getting all 4 offers!

Thank you I always thought that I would choose Glasgow if I was lucky enough to get offers from both Glasgow and Edinburgh but after I went to the post-offer visit days, I realised that the Edinburgh course was much more suited to my style of learning. At the time, it was still very unclear what changes were being made to the Glasgow course so that made me unsure and after listening to opinions from current medical students I thought that I would struggle with a PBL course. The integrated course at Edinburgh was a much better option for me.

As for Aberdeen and Dundee, it was much more difficult to travel to both from my hometown than it would be to Edinburgh - and I'm a bit of a homebird! I really liked the structure of the courses, particularly Dundee, but I couldn't see myself living there and I think it is just as important that you love the city you will be living in (as you will be spending five/six years there!).

Overall, Edinburgh gave me all that I wanted; only an hour away from my family on the train, a great course which is best for my style of learning and a fantastic city.

Where are you thinking of applying?

Does anyone know how friendly Edinburgh are to graduate applicants? I know they interview all the shortlisted grads.

I would like an answer to this question too

Are you a fellow grad applicant? Where are you applying to?

Yes, yes I am. Not 100% yet but most definate up in scotland. Yourself?

I've heard that Edinburgh only put 8% of their final decision weighting on UKCAT.. so if I get a not-so-good UKCAT.. does it really matter?? This is just to put my mind at rest as mine is next week

8% of your score comes from your UKCAT, with the other 92% coming from academics etc. They divide UKCAT scores into 4 quartiles, with the upper getting 3 points, the second getting 2 and the third getting 1. The 8% means that the points earned during this part of the process are only a fairly small proportion of the available points overall.

With regards to the UKCAT's use in final decisions where 2+ candidates have x points and are competing to fill the same space, it is likely that the candidate with the highest UKCAT score will be given that place.

Hope that helped - good luck next week

Okey doke.. so definitely not like sheffield then!
Aargh.. I guess I'll just do the test then take it from there.. no point worrying about 'what ifs' now I suppose.. just getting a tad jittery!!

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Mine's tomorrow... I suspect that it's not going to go spectacularly well but, as you've said, at least once I've done it I'll know where I stand a bit more... I'd love to apply to Sheffield but at the end of the day Edinburgh is still my first choice and hopefully a poor UKCAT won't be the be-all-and-end-all there

Ooo!! Good luck!! You'll have to let me know how you get on!!

Yeah, I dont think I'll apply to Sheffield anyway.. (although I probably would if we could have a 5th choice ) but I'm still panicking over the UKCAT.. I just dont want any little thing to let me down