King's College Medicine applicants 2014 entry

Well you sound like you'll have a brilliant personal statement! Kings and Cardiff have high GCSE requirements, I got in kings with 7A*4As but my GCSEs were too low for Cardiff. If you want to apply to Cardiff you'll need at least 8-9A*s to even get an interview! For Kings you'll need high GCSEs and UKCAT.

Just remember when you do your work experience etc, in your personal statement they don't care how many surgeries you've seen or how famous the surgeon is who you shadowed, they want to know that you've seen the highs and (most importantly) the lows of being a doctor, and that you know how hard it can be. Also that you've seen the sort of qualities necessary for a good doctor.

Good luck

Thanks so much, it was positive as well as negative I am not going to apply to Kings but I'm still going to try for Cardiff because there is a guy in my school who only got 5 A* and he's had an offer from Cardiff so I might be able to get in? They do make exceptions.

Thanks for that, yeah I will make sure that I take note of not only the positives but the negatives of being a doctor when I go on work experience.

Thanks so much, it was positive as well as negative I am not going to apply to Kings but I'm still going to try for Cardiff because there is a guy in my school who only got 5 A* and he's had an offer from Cardiff so I might be able to get in? They do make exceptions.

Thanks for that, yeah I will make sure that I take note of not only the positives but the negatives of being a doctor when I go on work experience.

On the 30th there were still 30 remaining! I suppose that now there are les than 20!
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Where do you guys get this information from? Everytime I ring they say that they can't tell me how many people are waiting to hear or that "there are many people". I'm hating the lack of consistency

Okay people, please don't take this the wrong way - it is a genuine and innocent question not laced with and prejudice or whatever. I was wondering why, when looking at the Kings medical group on Facebook and comparing it with the Leeds one, there are so many 'foreign' students. I understand many come from the UK, but it seems, judging from the Facebook group and offer open day, that the majority going to study medicine at kings next year will come from an ethnic origin different to 'White British'. So I have a couple of questions: 1) is this deduction of mine simply false, and just skewed by the fact that the active members on the kings Facebook group just happen to be, by coincidence, from a different ethnic background to White British? 2) are there many white people studying medicine at kings, what is the ratio?

Thank you all for understanding, this is a delicate topic I'm sure,
I'll put my hands up and say I'm mainly asking this because I'm more attracted to girls who come from the same ethnic background to me - that's something I can't help and can't change - and am a bit concerned that there will be few like this?! Call me chauvinist, racist, whatever, this is not the case, I am just been open with my, I assure you, very normal thoughts.

So I'm curios, One reason for this may be the international prestige kings has? The attraction of London on an international scale perhaps? Talking to Nurses in hospital, I know many students stay at home to study in countries like India and are supported by their families until they graduate - because London has a brilliant multicultural society with a high population of ethnic minorities, perhaps many of these students will stay at home and study at kings?

Thanks for understanding, all.


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Hugby talking about girls? Hahahaha

what about girls on other courses you troll

Okay people, please don't take this the wrong way - it is a genuine and innocent question not laced with and prejudice or whatever. I was wondering why, when looking at the Kings medical group on Facebook and comparing it with the Leeds one, there are so many 'foreign' students. I understand many come from the UK, but it seems, judging from the Facebook group and offer open day, that the majority going to study medicine at kings next year will come from an ethnic origin different to 'White British'. So I have a couple of questions: 1) is this deduction of mine simply false, and just skewed by the fact that the active members on the kings Facebook group just happen to be, by coincidence, from a different ethnic background to White British? 2) are there many white people studying medicine at kings, what is the ratio?

Thank you all for understanding, this is a delicate topic I'm sure,
I'll put my hands up and say I'm mainly asking this because I'm more attracted to girls who come from the same ethnic background to me - that's something I can't help and can't change - and am a bit concerned that there will be few like this?! Call me chauvinist, racist, whatever, this is not the case, I am just been open with my, I assure you, very normal thoughts.

So I'm curios, One reason for this may be the international prestige kings has? The attraction of London on an international scale perhaps? Talking to Nurses in hospital, I know many students stay at home to study in countries like India and are supported by their families until they graduate - because London has a brilliant multicultural society with a high population of ethnic minorities, perhaps many of these students will stay at home and study at kings?

Thanks for understanding, all.


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Okay people, please don't take this the wrong way - it is a genuine and innocent question not laced with and prejudice or whatever. I was wondering why, when looking at the Kings medical group on Facebook and comparing it with the Leeds one, there are so many 'foreign' students. I understand many come from the UK, but it seems, judging from the Facebook group and offer open day, that the majority going to study medicine at kings next year will come from an ethnic origin different to 'White British'. So I have a couple of questions: 1) is this deduction of mine simply false, and just skewed by the fact that the active members on the kings Facebook group just happen to be, by coincidence, from a different ethnic background to White British? 2) are there many white people studying medicine at kings, what is the ratio?

Thank you all for understanding, this is a delicate topic I'm sure,
I'll put my hands up and say I'm mainly asking this because I'm more attracted to girls who come from the same ethnic background to me - that's something I can't help and can't change - and am a bit concerned that there will be few like this?! Call me chauvinist, racist, whatever, this is not the case, I am just been open with my, I assure you, very normal thoughts.

So I'm curios, One reason for this may be the international prestige kings has? The attraction of London on an international scale perhaps? Talking to Nurses in hospital, I know many students stay at home to study in countries like India and are supported by their families until they graduate - because London has a brilliant multicultural society with a high population of ethnic minorities, perhaps many of these students will stay at home and study at kings?

Thanks for understanding, all.


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How did you manage to get into Medicine? King's clearly need to have a more thorough interview system, because it is shocking that they think somebody like you could ever make a compassionate doctor.

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if he was a "paki" surely he would go back to Pakistan and not India? and if he was a "paki" then how does that make him an arab?

I say , they are same very astute deductions my dear fellow

It's easy to act and be sincere and compassionate during interviews.
Fake smile, prepare loads, speak well...

Not 'easy'. I know this for a fact


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