Glasgow Medical School Applicants 2016 Entry

I am not sure if I'm the only one, but I feel like Glasgow is the most "quiet" uni in its admissions process. I mean the other unis sort of keep you a bit more posted with emails of "what's next?" or annoying you with paper work for fee status like Edinburgh...but from Glasgow I've literally heard nothing from them since the confirmation email.

oh dear, I haven't heard anything from edinburgh.. what fee status emails? haha. i only got an application acknowledgement.

I'm not sure but most schools give out about 3-4 times the amount of spaces. So a conservative estimate is probably about 700 interviews.

I think I saw somewhere 650-700 interviews for 400 offers.

May I ask where did you see that 400 from?

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/mus/admissions/faqs/

We receive in the region of 2000 applications per year. We invite in the region of 600 - 700 applicants to attend for interview, with approximately 230 places available.

After interviews have taken place, interview results are processed in January-February. Medical School offers are then made to the required number of applicants (normally approx. 450) by the end of March, through UCAS.

Makes sense if you think about it - most of the candidates offered places by Glasgow would probably have applied for, and been offered places by, the other Scottish medical schools (Edinburgh, Dundee, St Andrew's, Aberdeen). So there's a big gap between offers and places.

Well done with the interviews guys.

Glasgow is probably the easiest of the Scottish interviews, so just relax and I'm sure you'll all be fine

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/mus/admissions/faqs/

We receive in the region of 2000 applications per year. We invite in the region of 600 - 700 applicants to attend for interview, with approximately 230 places available.

After interviews have taken place, interview results are processed in January-February. Medical School offers are then made to the required number of applicants (normally approx. 450) by the end of March, through UCAS.

Makes sense if you think about it - most of the candidates offered places by Glasgow would probably have applied for, and been offered places by, the other Scottish medical schools (Edinburgh, Dundee, St Andrew's, Aberdeen). So there's a big gap between offers and places.

Do many people from the rest of the UK apply to Glasgow? I'm from the south-west of England and as far as I know I'm the only one from my school applying to Scotland

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me too! what time is yours? it's a bit of a squeeze for us isn't it, with dundee just a couple of days after! i wish i had much more time in between, but then again i wasn't even expecting interviews yet so i'm not complaining

I am the 14th also!

Do many people from the rest of the UK apply to Glasgow? I'm from the south-west of England and as far as I know I'm the only one from my school applying to Scotland

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Competition for places at Scottish unis will be higher for English people as there is a different quota in place for Rest of UK students, so you all compete for a much smaller number of places. This discourages some English applicants since they may not be good enough to get in, so they'd rather apply for other universities which don't have as high entry requirements as Glasgow and don't further limit the number of places they have.

Is there a limit on Rest of UK applicants who get offers or just interviews? I'm worried about this. Any idea how fierce the competition is? How many offers:applicants? I don't want my being English to be held against me too much :/

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I don't think you guys are discriminated against for interviews, only offers. It's about 57 out of 228 RUK places though, so you'll have to do quite well at interview to get a place