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UCL Medicine Applicants 2016

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Reply 200

chehjuan

Original post by Hydeman

UCL does very few early rejections because of the way its interview process. They assign an overall 'priority' to each application that isn't incomplete and then go through them in descending order until they run out of interview slots, which is usually around March time. At that point, I imagine a lot of people get rejected en masse.

I'm a gap year applicant. :smile:

I see you around everywhere :biggrin:

You always have the most well-informed replies haha.
Do you mind me asking where you applied and what your stats are?

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Reply 201

troubadour.

Original post by chehjuan

I see you around everywhere :biggrin:

You always have the most well-informed replies haha.
Do you mind me asking where you applied and what your stats are?

Thanks.

Not at all:

GCSE: Eight A*s, two As, one B and one C (last two in irrelevant subjects).
A Level: A*AAB achieved plus A in Welsh Bacc Core (accepted by UCL and hoping it gets counted as a 'contrasting subject' :lol:

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BMAT: Too afraid to check; I'm just gonna wait for an interview/rejection. :redface:

Work experience: Hospital, GP surgery.
Voluntary work: Care home, St John Ambulance.
Extracurricular: Air cadets, guitar, MOOC (relevant to medical science), won second place in the Wales National BrainBee.

I think that's it. :3 I applied to UCL, Cardiff, Exeter and Bristol.

Reply 202

chehjuan

Original post by Hydeman

Thanks.

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BMAT: Too afraid to check; I'm just gonna wait for an interview/rejection. :redface:

Great stats! :smile:

I don't think I would have been able to live without checking my BMAT results though haha! All the best :smile:

Reply 203

helloravers

Original post by amccluskey

Yeah I'm a gap year applicant, still haven't heard any news which is good, as our interviews would be in January, fingers crossed lad

yeah January is the one! how did your bmat go? Also do you think UCL take a certain amount of reapplicants?

Reply 204

helloravers

Original post by Hydeman

UCL does very few early rejections because of the way its interview process works. They assign an overall 'priority' to each application that isn't incomplete and then go through them in descending order until they run out of interview slots, which is usually around March time. At that point, I imagine a lot of people get rejected en masse.

I'm a gap year applicant. :smile:

Good luck! With your stats I'm sure you'll be fine!

Reply 205

troubadour.

Original post by helloravers

Good luck! With your stats I'm sure you'll be fine!

Thanks.

Good luck to you too!

Reply 206

amccluskey

Scored alright in the BMAT, just got an Oxford rejection which knocks the confidence a bit 😨 5.7 5.4 5A and yourself?

Reply 207

CamZZ_H

Original post by amccluskey

Scored alright in the BMAT, just got an Oxford rejection which knocks the confidence a bit 😨 5.7 5.4 5A and yourself?

What are your GCSEs like?

Reply 208

amccluskey

Original post by CamZZ_H

What are your GCSEs like?

9 A* 2As not as impressive as some of the ones I'm seeing here sadly, being from NI my school only let me do a maximum of 11 :/

Reply 209

troubadour.

Original post by amccluskey

9 A* 2As not as impressive as some of the ones I'm seeing here sadly, being from NI my school only let me do a maximum of 11 :/

That's surprising, then -- you would've had 65.5 percent on Oxford's weighted BMAT score and 82 percent A*s at GCSE is very good indeed. Maybe the competition is too high this year. :dontknow:

Reply 210

amccluskey

Original post by Hydeman

That's surprising, then -- you would've had 65.5 percent on Oxford's weighted BMAT score and 82 percent A*s at GCSE is very good indeed. Maybe the competition is too high this year. :dontknow:

Tbh, I didn't get a single interview last year and I've got 1 already this year, so I'm already at a personal best! 😊 ucl would be a dream though hopefully they give us an interview shot 👍

Reply 211

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Original post by amccluskey

Tbh, I didn't get a single interview last year and I've got 1 already this year, so I'm already at a personal best! 😊 ucl would be a dream though hopefully they give us an interview shot 👍

where have you applied this year?

Reply 212

amccluskey

Original post by 

where have you applied this year?

For Medicine: Oxford (rejected) Newcastle (interview offer) Bristol and UCL
And then my 5th which is theoretical physics, have an offer from Leeds, but not sure if I would take it if I get frozen out this year again