Hey, just joining in as well. I'll be applying for GEM in 2016, I've been planning to do so ever since I was rejected for undergrad for 2013 entry! Currently junior honours science student at a RG uni.
I do have a slight issue though. I was considering Oxford, and I know their interviews are over 2 days in mid December. The problem is that if I got an interview (unlikely but theoretically possible!) that it might clash with my Semester 1 exams, which take place over 2 weeks in December of which the Oxford interviews are the Thursday and Friday of the last week. The chances that there would be a clash are pretty slim, but this past December I did have an exam on the Friday afternoon, and since my uni doesn't publish exam dates until after the application deadline I won't know if there's a clash until I've applied, and I also can't choose my elective courses to avoid those dates.
It would be awful to have to reject an interview because I had to sit an exam, but ultimately uni is the priority here. Do you think I should risk it? Are there ways round clashes like these?