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I want to do medicine or pharmacy (hopefully lol) and i'm planning on doing chemistry, biology,psychology and maybe maths at A- level. Is maths needed? or can i get into uni without it
thanks !!

end of the day the most important factor is your grades
which ever subject you are confident that you'll can get an A pick that subject

Ignore @ForestCat . seems quite misinformed

http://russellgroup.ac.uk/media/5320/informedchoices.pdf

Pls refer to the above link, devised by real admissions officers. Scroll down to medicine and pharmacy, where maths and/or physics is either required or preferred.

@ForestCat you have a look too. Appears you don't quite have the knowledge u claim you have.

dont try tell me about 'how it works'

http://russellgroup.ac.uk/media/5320/informedchoices.pdf

look at medicine. Maths keeps OPs options open to all med schools thus being a useful subject. And physics too, since you seem to dismiss others who suggest it.

Its ppl like you who make ppl question the legitimacy and accuracy of the internet. At least you can learn now instead of spreading your rubbish around and confusing med school hopefuls

Like I said, the OP can either take advice from an actual medical student, or listen to some randoms on TSR.

P.s. all it says about maths is it will keep all your options open. By this it means Cambridge. It is not needed anywhere else.

wow
maths keeps options open for a few more uni's okay, when did i say don't do maths?
i said do subjects you are sure you'll get the grades
because they are the basic entry requirements and if you are unable to get the grades no university will look at her application

its people like you who think they can assume things without actually bothering to read what the other person wrote

ermm, who are you?

someone who can read

u wanna medal?

'randoms on TSR'? Really you're gonna say this when i showed a document devised by admission officers.

And no, it doesnt just mean cambridge, it says all med schools and it shows maths is valuable.

You also ignore the fact that OP is considering pharmacy, where maths is useful and u actually learn a bit of maths.

I admire your confidence, but you come off as someone who is a little emotional because you didnt get into the top unis, but thats none of my business.

Ignore @ForestCat . seems quite misinformed

http://russellgroup.ac.uk/media/5320/informedchoices.pdf

Pls refer to the above link, devised by real admissions officers. Scroll down to medicine and pharmacy, where maths and/or physics is either required or preferred.

@ForestCat you have a look too. Appears you don't quite have the knowledge u claim you have.

Right I understand that you are angry with that people, but I am not saying that it increases your chances of getting into med, I am just saying that, in my opinion, doing maths and/or physics is more useful than doing something like psychology, art or english lit. I have many doctors in my family and I am sure they would all agree with that. Again, I am NOT sating it helps with your application, I think that having a strong reference/personal statement and a good UKCAT/BMAT score will be much more decisive.

EDIT: However top unis, such as Oxbridge, do ask for 3 science subjects at A-Level or 2 sciences and maths.

You seem to ignore the competitive element of medicine, where students will have maths and yes other factors do affect whether or not they get in. The competition is fierce and you're wrong in suggesting there is no top medical school. Many will aim to go into consulting and other senior positions, and this is taken up by many of the top uni grads. No one said anything about 'prestige' and theres no need to be so condescending.

Do tell me which are the "top unis" for medicine, and why. And which of them, apart from Cambridge (not Oxford!) require more than two sciences at A-level.

I'm also intrigued as to what skills physics or maths gives to applicants that are so much more valuable than those which could be gained from doing an essay-based subject, particularly one like psychology which could be argued to have a lot of relevance, direct and indirect, to medicine.

I am not going to repeat myself all over again, so if you think that interpreting a poem, drawing or writing an essay based on a source is more useful in medicine than the problem solving and logical thinking skills obtained by breaking down problems into a series of steps and analysing the steps separately using logic and mathematics then that is your opinion, but it certainly isn't and I don't even know why we are discussing about it. Again I am NOT talking about these subjects increasing your chances of getting in into the course, I am discussing the relative usefulness of subjects, just so no one starts talking about that again.

Do tell me which are the "top unis" for medicine, and why. And which of them, apart from Cambridge (not Oxford!) require more than two sciences at A-level.

I'm also intrigued as to what skills physics or maths gives to applicants that are so much more valuable than those which could be gained from doing an essay-based subject, particularly one like psychology which could be argued to have a lot of relevance, direct and indirect, to medicine.


Again, do you have any evidence whatsoever that graduating from a "top" medical school means you are more likely to end up in a consultant position 10 years down the line? Do you have any evidence that the people interviewing for consultant posts (or any specialty training posts beforehand) give the tiniest of shits where someone went to med school?

Given that that has listed Further Maths as a "useful advanced level qualification", I'm fairly sure that that's not a good source to use for Medicine applications and that it wasn't compiled by Medicine admission tutors. A lot of Med Schools don't accept Further Maths as a separate subject (and unlike the point you're trying to argue, this is actually stated on many Med School's websites).

I didnt recommend further maths, just maths