The hardest courses for admissions are those with October Deadline

Work experience just means giving some of your time, literally takes no physical or mental effort whatsoever


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I find its the ones who don't actually have a passion for the subject and are going into medicine/dentistry for the status and salary dont get through interview stage and often dont get the grades

I can taste the envy.

TBH 21k starting salary for a 5 year degree and working insane hours for years after medical school doesn't really seem like something people should envy

Oh that's rubbish. Almost all medics have "a passion" for it as a retrospective construct. You can bet that if neuroscience had the same pay and kudos, they'd all be falling over one another to be chopping skulls open.

Dat reputation doe. DAT societal status and respect.

I can taste the envy.

Dat reputation doe. DAT societal status and respect.

You think people are going to respect you JUST because you're a doctor? lmfao
Dentists have a similar social status and work half your hours and get paid twice as much as you. Besides, people call GPs useless and lazy all the time.

Good luck with your brain dead course.

Anyone with an ounce of intellectual ability and curiosity would immediately revolt to the idea of rote memorizing textbooks for 5-7 years of their life.

Before you come up with the awful excuse " but doctors have a billion a*'s at A level " just stop, grab a gun, and shoot yourself. A Levels don't count for **** when compared to doing research and studying a subject at its forefront, which you will never do seeing as you will repeatedly carry out work that has been done by hundreds before you.

I appreciate Doctors but I just find it frustrating when they are seen as intellectual God's. Rant over.

Oh god if only my medic friends could see this! You're going to love training after medical school

i have a conditional offer from imperial (physics) doe.
i know you doctors are jealous of our logical reasoning/spatial skills. keep looking at your MRI scans without understanding how they're produced.

Gold



We save lives doe. You fiddle with equations about space that have no practical application in the real world.

I AM TROLLING!

your literally stupid as hell

Considering 60% of all medicine & Dentistry applications are unsuccessful, I doubt that.

With regards to admissions like the OP states, you're probably right.

Oxbridge and Med/Vet applications all require A LOT of preparation, there are a lot of hoops to jump through (extra tests, interviews, early UCAS submission),and the competition is very tough.

Compare that to the usual degree application - literally just filling out a UCAS form. (Of course some courses may interview, but they're few and far between)

Agreed. Those courses ARE hardest to get into. Another thing, when people apply for the October deadline we have very little help/preparation/time to produce a great personal statement, in comparison to those working towards a January deadline. I remember there were all these workshops and programs held for January applicants. I began writing my personal statement in like July with very little idea as to what it is right/wrong. I also had very little experience and understanding as to how the UCAS thing works

Eastern europe disagrees.

That's weird. Logic would dictate that schools would direct a tonne of support towards Oxbridge and medicine/vet applicants. After all, 1) these courses are very hard to get onto and 2) There's nothing like boasting to prospective parents/teachers/employers about the number of successful Oxbridge/Medicine applications you oversaw

That's how my school operated. The medics/vets and Oxbridge applicants had workshops, mock interviews, one-on-one tutoring and so on, while the rest of us had to make do with a little help with our personal statement (if we asked for it)

Then again our school was used to sending a very large proportion of students off to medicine/vet school and Oxbridge so they had an efficient support system in place. I suspect for schools with very few to no students going to these places on average each year, they're under-supported.