4 Rejection for medicine No hope 2013 entery

WHO has 4 rejection for medicine and has no hope for entery in 2013 in UK??? are you willing to get admission abroad???

There seems a slightly worrying cycle for medicine; people apply for medicine in Year 13, they don't get in, they get understandably upset but then decide to go on a gap year and improve their application, they reapply and get in. But surely if lots of gap year people get into medicine, then lots of Y13 people will have to get rejected! A cycle's being perpetuated.

We really need to find people another route into medicine other than the highly oversubscribed medicine course, or taking a degree in Pharmacy or Biomedical Sciences and then trying to get into the hugely oversubscribed grad med course.

Why is it worrying? There's some talk of making medicine graduate entry only, which thankfully I don't think will ever happen but it makes the point that medical schools like candidates who have a bit of maturity and life experience. Making more people take a gap year means firstly filtering out all those who weren't that committed in the first place, and secondly means you have to spend some time in the real world either working or traveling or volunteering - you see and do and experience things that end up making you a more well rounded person and therefore a better doctor.

Also, the reason it's oversubscribed is because we need to produce a fixed number of doctors. You need to control demand for the course, not the supply of places, so somehow you need to reduce the number of applicants.

WHO has 4 rejection for medicine and has no hope for entery in 2013 in UK??? are you willing to get admission abroad???

WHO has 4 rejection for medicine and has no hope for entery in 2013 in UK??? are you willing to get admission abroad???

Why is it worrying? There's some talk of making medicine graduate entry only, which thankfully I don't think will ever happen but it makes the point that medical schools like candidates who have a bit of maturity and life experience. Making more people take a gap year means firstly filtering out all those who weren't that committed in the first place, and secondly means you have to spend some time in the real world either working or traveling or volunteering - you see and do and experience things that end up making you a more well rounded person and therefore a better doctor.

Also, the reason it's oversubscribed is because we need to produce a fixed number of doctors. You need to control demand for the course, not the supply of places, so somehow you need to reduce the number of applicants.

Are you an international student? Because you spelt entry wrong.

There are definitely far to many poor applicants who get 4 rejections, waste a year without changing much, and then somehow get in.

I know people who just sat at home for their gap year, and then got a Medicine offer, for example.

There are definitely far to many poor applicants who get 4 rejections, waste a year without changing much, and then somehow get in.

I know people who just sat at home for their gap year, and then got a Medicine offer, for example.

The sense of entitlement here is ridiculous. To wish the competition was reduced so you have a better chance of getting in is perfectly understandable, but to think that you actually should have that happen for you, at the expense of a load of other people's chances at the career they want, is incredible.

Are you talking about *my* sense of entitlement? Because I don't care about medicine. I probably would have got in if I'd wanted to, anyway. It's not the most difficult thing in the world.

No, I'm talking about medical applicants, and how there are too many of them expecting places, which inevitably leads to rejection and people heading into biomedical degrees at universities well below their potential, or wasting another year only for a similar result to likely occur.

If you don't want to do medicine that's fine, but don't criticise others' ambitions. Re-applicants often actually have a better experience because they have results in hand, have more experience and maturity, and get more informed as a result of their 4 rejections. If you want to be informed of how it works then all the information is in the public domain, ergo TSR, so its not as if people are being denied information of how the process works.

There are definitely far to many poor applicants who get 4 rejections, waste a year without changing much, and then somehow get in.

I know people who just sat at home for their gap year, and then got a Medicine offer, for example.

Are you talking about *my* sense of entitlement? Because I don't care about medicine. I probably would have got in if I'd wanted to, anyway. It's not the most difficult thing in the world.

No, I'm talking about medical applicants, and how there are too many of them expecting places, which inevitably leads to rejection and people heading into biomedical degrees at universities well below their potential, or wasting another year only for a similar result to likely occur.

Are you talking about *my* sense of entitlement? Because I don't care about medicine. I probably would have got in if I'd wanted to, anyway. It's not the most difficult thing in the world.

No, I'm talking about medical applicants, and how there are too many of them expecting places, which inevitably leads to rejection and people heading into biomedical degrees at universities well below their potential, or wasting another year only for a similar result to likely occur.

You have no idea what they changed. Maybe they sat at home reading up on the application process and making a much more tactical application, having spent time revising for the UKCAT or BMAT and researching which schools they had a much better chance at, hence the magical improvement in their application success the second time round.


This is utter *******s. The majority of applicants don't get in.

Not at interview, as they'd realise what a horrible person you are. over the past few days out of all your posts on tsr I haven't seen a single intelligent helpful comment whatsoever. medicine isn't about being clever.

If you've been reading my comments, you'll have noticed that I passed significantly more difficult interviews, and was accepted into world top 5 institutions at all three levels: ugrad, masters, and postgrad. All of these required me to pass extensive interviews which lasted way longer than the standard 15-20 minute medicine interview..

And then you have my job interviews which resulted in plenty of offers.

All of the evidence points towards me being able to pass the most difficult of interviews at both university- and job-level. Along with that, I easily had good enough grades, easily had enough activities, and all that was left was experience/interest in the medical field, which would have come if I'd wanted to do medicine.