Barts and The London medicine applicants 2014

They haven't sent rejections to the wrong people, the stats aren't much worse than they were last year. The ukcat really ****ed up this year, so it's essentially become a far less useful way of cutting candidates. Now they have to increase academic thresholds on the undergraduate course.

They haven't sent rejections to the wrong people, the stats aren't much worse than they were last year. The ukcat really ****ed up this year, so it's essentially become a far less useful way of cutting candidates. Now they have to increase academic thresholds on the undergraduate course.

Wait what do you mean by the ukcat messing up?

Would we keep getting rejections till Feb/ March?

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They said they would send out invites on the 11th right, up to now there has only been rejections, rejections of people with great stats. Im hoping that they accidentally stent rejections to the people they wanted to interview ...... unlikely I know but a good theory? naa I'm probably overthinking this.

Well they trialed the new DA section with the confidence ratings, and everyone basically got an extra 10 minutes because they didn't count, so no one took them seriously. This year the average DA mark shot up by 120 or so.

But surely if they didn't count then the universities never even saw the marks so it wouldn't matter?

I heard that all rejections are handed out this month, meaning that if you don't hear negative news this month you've got an interview...

I am an EU student (outside UK) and there are no exams offered(in my country) in order to gain UCAS tariff points. I had 720 in the UKCAT but they just rejected me (I believe because of the tariff points)

Note: I have taken some SAT subject tests (I don't know if they count)

I am actually in the Same case as you, but for dentistry! I am an EU applicant (France) and the exams I take are from Cambridge so approved from UK. All the qualifications they list in their tariff table is exclusive for UK applicant, so I can't have any points! They said they've rejected because my application "does not meet the general entrance requirements". I think this is unfair for EU applicant as we don't have those qualifications. Basically they only want to take UK people, which is against the EU law stating that anybody from the EU zone can enter another country's uni....
I am going to ask my head teacher to ring them up.

Are you sure it's the academic requirements you were rejected on? I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they're breaking EU law so easily, they know the rules.

Well, it stated that my application "does not meet general entrance requirement"
and I have passed the UKCaT (2480 total when they required minimum 2400 for undergraduates) and i have predicted 15 for the OIB (equivalent to A*AA on Cambridge site). I don't see where I did not meet the entrance requirements.

I am actually in the Same case as you, but for dentistry! I am an EU applicant (France) and the exams I take are from Cambridge so approved from UK. All the qualifications they list in their tariff table is exclusive for UK applicant, so I can't have any points! They said they've rejected because my application "does not meet the general entrance requirements". I think this is unfair for EU applicant as we don't have those qualifications. Basically they only want to take UK people, which is against the EU law stating that anybody from the EU zone can enter another country's uni....
I am going to ask my head teacher to ring them up.

Well, it stated that my application "does not meet general entrance requirement"
and I have passed the UKCaT (2480 total when they required minimum 2400 for undergraduates) and i have predicted 15 for the OIB (equivalent to A*AA on Cambridge site). I don't see where I did not meet the entrance requirements.

The 2400 requirement is the minimum requirement, where all rejections below that are rejected. If you score over that, your UKCAT and tariff are ranked together to give a joint score.

If your grades are equivalent to A*AA, they've probably given you a tariff based on the UK equivalent. A*AA isn't overly high in the grand scheme of things: UK students in this thread have been rejected with A*A*A and with UKCATs higher than 700.

The competition this year is very high, and it looks as though you need A*A*A* (or equivalent) with a good UKCAT (>2800). There is a bit of leeway; if you have A*AA and a UKCAT of 3200 you might have a chance, or vice versa e.g. a UKCAT score of 2400 but an outstanding tariff.