Glasgow Medical School Applicants 2016 Entry

I thought they changed it this year so that the UKCAT was weighted equally with your P.S, grades and reference?

The UKCAT cutoff score for Glasgow interview last year was 2600 so (with the very slightly increased UKCAT average this year) I'm guessing the cuttoff will be about 2630-2650.

Qualifications, PS and ref just need to pass the minimum for UKCAT to be considered so, assuming you're okay in those areas, just go by your UKCAT score to see if you're likely to get an interview.

HTH

Isn't that basically a cut off by another name?

Anyway I've just spoke to Glasgow admissions (was checking they got my predicted grades) and the woman inadvertently let slip the date they will be notifying people about interviews.

Apparently we won't be hearing today, as she said and I quote "oh don't worry about your a levels, we've got that info; no ones heard yet though as we're still compiling all the data. We expect to start contacting people on the 30th with offers for interview"

Of course she could be mistaken so don't hold me to it, but it's pretty much from the horses mouth.

Going to stop hitting refresh over and over now on my email and go enjoy my weekend.

Good luck everyone.

so r they still sending interview invitation today?
anyone got an interview?
ugghhh dont want to wait anymore

i like the fact that people basically just didn't believe me.


Unless the woman at the university is having a massive laugh, we won't be getting news til the 30th.

The 30th?!
That means I'll have 2-3 weeks to book a flight and accommodation?! That is if they really do their interviews from 14th to 21st of December. Can they seriously expect me to come all that way on such short notice? So angry right now. I thought 20th was pretty late already.
Ugghh when is this going to be over

From what I've been reading on other threads, Kings, Leicester, Newcastle and Southampton all only give one weeks notice so two weeks is pretty good!

Yeah, even if you refer to it as "in order of UKCAT scores" there still has to be a "cutoff" at some point - it's just 2 ways of saying the same thing.

I thought it was 2600 but maybe it was "about 2600" so the 2570 figure quoted above still sounds about right.

I'd say if you're well below 2600 you've had it but if you're in that area it'll be borderline. 2700+ and you're almost definitely getting an interview.

Personal statement and ref just seem to be a yes or no really. I'm still pretty sure it's the UKCAT that counts (followed by the interview which will then count as 100% of the criteria due to the "clean sheet" at that point). It's the fact that the interview counts for so much that causes the PS and ref to not count for much pre-interview.

How's it any different? If everyone who fulfills the criteria over a certain UKCAT score get an interview and those who fulfill the criteria but under a certain UKCAT score don't get an interview; then it's clearly a cut off by another name and you're simply going over semantics.

If however people with higher UKCAT scores weren't getting invited because other people with lower scores surpassed the minimum entry requirements and thus it bumped them up the list, then your statement would have weight but that's simply not what Glasgow does.

It's purely do you have the bare minimum, tick! Order by UKCAT, then top X amount get an invite.

It's purely do you have the bare minimum, tick! Order by UKCAT, then top X amount get an invite.