2012 Medicine Re-Applicants Mark I

Thanks I've just been overthinking my situation a little and panicking just a little too much I'm a re-reapplicant though since all I got last year was a waiting list place for Edinburgh which I had to decline my 5th offer for and yeah they didn't take anyone off the waiting list So I HAVE to get in this year, for my own sanity and self esteem.

Oh okay, sorry to hear! However if i was in your shoes last year I wouldve done the exact same thing and took another gap year

So where you applied this year? God you must hate ukcat more than i do! (and i ****ing hate verbal reasoning)

Thanks. Emm I applied to Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow and Imperial. I detest the UKCAT, absolutely failed it the 1st time round, I think my average was 540 but did much better last year 737.5 and not quite as good this year 730. (I could murder cheerfully whoever thought of abstract reasoning and the genius who decided to change the calculator from the handheld one to the computer one which didn't work!!)

Last year I applied to a lot of wrong Unis though for my application, should have gone for UKCAT heavy ones. Ah well 3rd time lucky! Where have you applied this year?

Lancaster Liverpool Leeds & QUB
All of which i love and would be happy to go to, i made sure i appplied to PS ones this year as last year my interview one rejecvted me cus they said in comparison to people with the same interview score i had the lower ukcat, which was guttoing
so this year i applied to 2 non ukcat loving ones


Well i live in newcastle, we are mint, my best friend at glasgow loves it there, my friend doing medicine at imperial loves it there and i know nothing about manchester but you of all people know you'll get an interview with that ukcat score

Queens is a fantastic Uni, I live in the north of Ireland so a lot of people from my school went there and they adore it! People in Belfast and Northern Ireland are extremely friendly.If you want any help about the hospitals in Belfast or how the NI NHS differs from the English just quote me. One of my good friends is at Liverpool and she loves it, she keeps texting me to tell me how cheap the vodka is I don't know anything about Leeds or Lancaster though I can't believe you were so close to a place and lost it due to UKCAT. If that came back in my feedback I would have screeched and cried my eyes out!

Thanks, I keep telling myself that people with lower UKCAT have got interviews already at Glasgow, Newcastle but it doesn't really help! I don't think I'll believe it until I've read the email at least 7 times Freaking it about my BMAT and hoping desperately I pass the ps screen for Manchester

You live in Newcastle! I love Newcastle, it has to be the prettiest city I've ever seen! Everyone there was so friendly when we went for the open day. We took the ferry over and when we went to come home again Mum realised the car had a puncture. The Mayor's chauffeur helped us change it and all these men on the street were so helpful!

Yeah i live in newcastle! Awwh aren't you lovely Yeah Newcastle is soo nice, but when you get your interview i'd be more than happy to help you with which hotel is beste/closest to city centre, what to do, what they ask you at interview, general **** about newcastle

Ah that would be amazing if you could help with the NI nhs if i get an interview there hopefully, i'd appreciate that a lot Yeah well if people with lower ukcats have interviews you'll definitely have one! they randomise when they give the onterviews to make it fair, my ukcat's 625 lmao so bad but not great but i don't mind, as long as it wasnt lower than last year

have you done another degree? or just three years straight of applying? It's gotta be your year this year!

In all fairness the woman shouldn't have been so nasty when she sneered about not serving me, I felt I had to then buy the thing again and go straight to her with my id safely in my bag just to give her a lesson not to be rude to people. That's the one thing I absolutely hate, people being rude




You have an interview now yes? I'm still trying to get to grips with matching usernames to Facebook names these days

i hate rude people!
rude people made me cry at work the other week haha.

and no think im pretty much the only person on the group without one!

How do you guys tend to prepare for interview? Do you do a lot of current affairs/NHS revision etc?

I tend to completely fail at preparing But when I do, I've started looking at stuff about the reform cause that seems bound to come up and I knew literally nothing about up it up until yesterday BBC is a good place to look for articles and stuff and learning the course of the uni is a key one for me

Althoughl a lot of my revision always seems to end up as a combination of tsr, facebook, twitter and basically anything completely unrelated. I even started doing an online dot-to-dot yesterday

ooh where?

so i was thinking, its practically december, which means its pretty much nearly 2012, which means march is soon, and that means we'll find out if we've got in soon

I found this really good website ages ago where they had like a hugeeeeee london dot-to-dot with literally hundreds of dots, but I can't find it again So I had to settle on really easy kiddy ones like:

http://www-en.toupty.com/dot-to-dot.html
http://www.raisingourkids.com/activities/connect-dot-to-dot/index-03.html

It's gonna be my mission to find the good dot-to-dot website! (But after wednesday, because I'm so easily distracted, if I found it that would be me gone for the rest of the day lol