Cambridge Medicine applicants 2015

Everyone's worrying about the BMAT so
The admissions tutors (at Selwyn anyway) said they always find it hard to actually see a correlation between GCSEs, UMS, BMAT and interview scores; on the FOI requests you can see so many people with 98% at AS and 3.0s in the BMAT. Relatively very few people actually get above a 6.0.
(the average applicant for Selwyn med last year had 5.1 S1, 4.7 S2)

Different colleges look at BMAT differently. In Downing last year, the successful average is 7.2, 6.7 ... LMAO
Anyway, good luck to everyone!

Omg why is the average for S1 always higher?!

I have no idea!!! What do you mean by always?? Anyone knows the average for other colleges??

I have just generally been looking through threads, and by looking at the stats published overall on the BMAT website; S1 is always higher. How did you find out the average for your college? Do you know any others, specifically St John's?

My mock scores for S1 vary too much; from between 4.2 to 8.6. Whereas my S2 mock scores have all been above 6.9. Do you think if I get a really good S2 score, it will compensate for an average or slightly below average S1 score? Surely they look at S2 more than S1?

For St John i sent them an email a long time ago and they never reply.. so I have no idea, but you can check on their college website see if they published any stats there
For my college, I email them and they replied me literally within hours! ;D

Downing! You? I chose it because it has a really strong medical tradition and the word beautiful was invented for that campus

I have just generally been looking through threads, and by looking at the stats published overall on the BMAT website; S1 is always higher. How did you find out the average for your college? Do you know any others, specifically St John's?

My mock scores for S1 vary too much; from between 4.2 to 8.6. Whereas my S2 mock scores have all been above 6.9. Do you think if I get a really good S2 score, it will compensate for an average or slightly below average S1 score? Surely they look at S2 more than S1?

have you seen this document? it's got all the data on the medicine applicants and shows their BMAT scores! https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/226127/response/560253/attach/2/FOI%202014%20311%20Lawson%20response%20letter%20and%20data.pdf

I swear the BMAT scores are surprisingly low? I mean in S1 and S2 I'm doing OK on average, say an average of 6 for S1 and 7 for S2. But I think the exam situation must really affect people as I don't feel I'm exceptional at all to get these scores

Omg! The bmat scores for the St. John's applicant are a bit lower than expected!
Are these all offer holders?

no no! they're not allowed to do that as it's such a small number there would be a high risk of identifying applicants but yeah

there are some surprising ones with people with 98% and 4 and 3 for BMAT scores!

I am bombarded by the fact that most of the Downing applicants have 98 ums above and 7 and above in both sections in BMAT.

SAMESIES <3 I'm applying to Downing too! maybe I'll see you at interview? haha

no no! they're not allowed to do that as it's such a small number there would be a high risk of identifying applicants but yeah

there are some surprising ones with people with 98% and 4 and 3 for BMAT scores!

don't worry; if we're right for cambridge we'll get an offer, if not from Downing

(that's a big IF though)

Haha for the sake of both of us, let's hope so!

GCSEs: 6A*s, 4As
AS: AAAAA
Maths: 258/300 (sat in 2013 though)
Biology: 281/300
Chemistry: 291/300
Physics: 278/300
Further Maths: 266/300
UMS Average: 93%
SUMS: 94.4%
Would you say these are strong enough for Cambridge?

I'm applying to Downing too! *hi fellow Downing peeps*

I'm absolutely sh***ing myself for the BMAT tho. I've been getting from 5.4s to 7s in my mocks. I haven't really bothered about the writing section yet because I called up the Downing Admissions tutor and he told me that it wasn't going to be considered by the college (luckily)

JackTeh96 I wouldn't worry too much about UMS because I've got a friend at Downing whose average SUMS was 93%. I guess at the end of the day it all boils down to how much they like you at the interview

damn smart people, a regular peasant passing by