Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

This is exaggeration, there ARE medical schools who prefer this (Oxford, Cambridge, Barts, more I'm sure), and surely some who may consider it as a tiebreaker between two candidates.

However, on the whole, yeah, there's no point taking 4, no point at all.

HELP/ADVICE PLEASE.
i would love to apply to edinburgh but am told countless times by careers advisors etcetc not to as only scottish get in! im from ni. i have 8A*s 3As, 662.5 in ukcat, and 3 voluntary work, work exp, music and sport. any chance or is it too much of a risk to waste an offer? do they take top 8 gcses or all gcses?

They dont let only Scottish people in!!
At least I hope they dont as I just sent off my UCAS and they were one of my choices

You sound like a good applicant for them, although everything is a bit of a risk when applying for medicine

You are probably on the low side for KCL unfortunately.
They rank your UKCAT score against the number of A*s you have at GCSE and list all the candidates that way. They then interview the top 20%.
I didn't get called up for interview with 655 avg. and 8.5A*s at GCSE. But then again, I had my UCL offer so withdrew several weeks before the admissions cycle for KCL finished as I wasn't going to take their offer anyway. It might best if you check KCL's 2011 entry applicant's profiles to see how their faired last year.

Hey sorry, do you know where i could find the profiles of those applicants?

What kind of grades/ukcat did you get? im thinking queens belfast, dundee, leeds and then possibly edinburgh:/

Agreed.
Done any BMAT papers yet?

dear all:
ukcat: 652 av
gcses: 3A*s. 4As, 4Bs
as: AAAA (bio, chem, phys & art)
a2 predictions: A*A*A (based on UMS; dropping art).
thinking of applying to leeds, aberdeen, nottingham & bristol?

chances?

also, are scottish universitys going to be more competitive seeing as they'll be even more popular amongst scottish candiates than ever!?

HELP/ADVICE PLEASE.
i would love to apply to edinburgh but am told countless times by careers advisors etcetc not to as only scottish get in! im from ni. i have 8A*s 3As, 662.5 in ukcat, and 3 voluntary work, work exp, music and sport. any chance or is it too much of a risk to waste an offer? do they take top 8 gcses or all gcses?

im a year 12 IB student and i am doing maths studies (the easiest form of maths at my school in IB)

i have researched my chosen universites and called them pesonally. they each said HL maths (the highest level of maths in the IB) was NOT NECESSARY.

all the advisors in my school say that i need to have HL because they will not accept maths studies as an appropriate maths course and i do not want to do HL maths because (A) i dont want to as i dont really enjoy maths even though i am seen as capable (B) why should i if my research says i dont need to?

if it really is necessary i probably could take the HL but only as a last resort.

my only other option for maths is to take HL maths as my school does not provide a SL Maths course (the middle class of difficulty) even though that was what i chose to do on my application form.

would a medical school accept me if i stayed with maths studies?


Extra Info:
GCSE
A chemistry
A biology
A Physics
A Design tecnology
A Spanish
D* ICT (BTECH course)
A German
A English Literature
B English Language
C Business studies


IB Current Subjects
HL Biology
HL Chemistry
HL Psychology
SL English
SL Spanish
Math studies

Hey
Just my piece of advice don't neg rep or w.e
I am IB too and I would recommend math sl as opposed to math studies cuz studies is generally seen as baby math
However, uk unis don't know a lot of IB like cambridge says they do and their offers are 7,7,7 at HL. Insane!

Just sent off my UCAS form... AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Same, feels weird that I don't need to worry about personal statement anymore. Now we just wait...and prepare for BMAT and hopefully interviews

Ain't seen you in a while. How did your UKCAT go?

Oh Gosh that makes me feel terrible!! I still need to finish my PS, completely panicking now... Strange that everything seems to have suddenly starting rolling into
action!!

Tomorrow night is PS night, gonna try getting my UCAS sent off next week

Hope everyone's well and getting excited... Or scared!!!