Medicine 2017 entry

Hey
I'm an international student from Pakistan
I got 10A* 1A at GCSE (Highest achiever at my school)
(Biology, Chemistry,Physics ,Math, English Language,ComputerScience ,Sociology,EnvironmentalManagement, PakistanStudies,
Urdu, Islamic studies)
AAA at As level (Biology Chemistry Physics)
Predicted 3A* at Alevel
Extensive work experience (schools, hospitals, old age homes, homes for individuals with Down's syndrome etc)
1000+ hours of community service
Strong extra curriculars with various student leadership placements and numerous awards and certificates.
Summer program at brown university
On the honor roll and awarded with a
100% scholarship at my Sixth form college.
4 Clinical research publications on PubMed
(As a contributing author)
And a lot more achievements.

I had hoped to apply to
Oxford
UCL
Kings
Bart's
Manchester/ St. George's
(In order of preference)

But I appeared for the UKCAT with minimal preparation due to lack of resources and guidance (I could find no one who was giving or had given the UKCAT from my city)
I ended up with an average of 600 and Band 2 on SJ. A terrible score.
Can someone guide me as to whether i should forget about Kings and Bart's?
I am currently focusing on the BMAT as 2 of my choices ask for it.
I have a solid personal statement as well and great recommendations.
What should I do?

Hey
I'm an international student from Pakistan
I got 10A* 1A at GCSE (Highest achiever at my school)
(Biology, Chemistry,Physics ,Math, English Language,ComputerScience ,Sociology,EnvironmentalManagement, PakistanStudies,
Urdu, Islamic studies)
AAA at As level (Biology Chemistry Physics)
Predicted 3A* at Alevel
Extensive work experience (schools, hospitals, old age homes, homes for individuals with Down's syndrome etc)
1000+ hours of community service
Strong extra curriculars with various student leadership placements and numerous awards and certificates.
Summer program at brown university
On the honor roll and awarded with a
100% scholarship at my Sixth form college.
4 Clinical research publications on PubMed
(As a contributing author)
And a lot more achievements.

I had hoped to apply to
Oxford
UCL
Kings
Bart's
Manchester/ St. George's
(In order of preference)

But I appeared for the UKCAT with minimal preparation due to lack of resources and guidance (I could find no one who was giving or had given the UKCAT from my city)
I ended up with an average of 600 and Band 2 on SJ. A terrible score.
Can someone guide me as to whether i should forget about Kings and Bart's?
I am currently focusing on the BMAT as 2 of my choices ask for it.
I have a solid personal statement as well and great recommendations.
What should I do?

Hello guys,I want to ask if I can apply to medicine this year and if so where should I apply. I have always wanted to do medicine because it interests me so much, and through work experience, I confirmed this. Any foundation courses will do. I can't do BMAT because most BMAT unis want B for English.GCSE stats:Maths: A*Further Maths AQA : ABiology: AChemistry: APhysics: AICT: AStatistics: AGeography: BEnglish Lang: CEnglish Lit: CFrench: CUkcatVR - 520QR - 740AR - 610SJT - Band 2 Average - 624As - Internal examsA2 predicted grades - AAA - A*AAThanks in advance guys.

Hey
I'm an international student from Pakistan
I got 10A* 1A at GCSE (Highest achiever at my school)
(Biology, Chemistry,Physics ,Math, English Language,ComputerScience ,Sociology,EnvironmentalManagement, PakistanStudies,
Urdu, Islamic studies)
AAA at As level (Biology Chemistry Physics)
Predicted 3A* at Alevel
Extensive work experience (schools, hospitals, old age homes, homes for individuals with Down's syndrome etc)
1000+ hours of community service
Strong extra curriculars with various student leadership placements and numerous awards and certificates.
Summer program at brown university
On the honor roll and awarded with a
100% scholarship at my Sixth form college.
4 Clinical research publications on PubMed
(As a contributing author)
And a lot more achievements.

I had hoped to apply to
Oxford
UCL
Kings
Bart's
Manchester/ St. George's
(In order of preference)

But I appeared for the UKCAT with minimal preparation due to lack of resources and guidance (I could find no one who was giving or had given the UKCAT from my city)
I ended up with an average of 600 and Band 2 on SJ. A terrible score.
Can someone guide me as to whether i should forget about Kings and Bart's?
I am currently focusing on the BMAT as 2 of my choices ask for it.
I have a solid personal statement as well and great recommendations.
What should I do?

are any Scottish Applicants applying to any non-Scottish unis and if so what ones and why? I've been looking around and on a lot of the websites the requirements for Scottish applicants are a bit less than what Scottish unis ask for and seeing as I only have AAAAB at Higher I'm considering maybe applying down south

Is anyone freaking about their personal statement? I find it so hard to explain why I want to study medicine in such a short amount of words

Sameeee

Hi everyone,

I'm sending my application away next week and was wondering if anyone knows what sort of UKCAT score you need for Edinburgh? I got 710 average (VR 670, QR 770 and AR 690) and Band 1.

I have 11A* GCSE, AAAA at AS and A*A*A*A* predictions so I know I fulfil all the academic criteria.

Assuming my personal statement is good (not sure if it is or not lol) do I stand a chance of getting an Edinburgh offer? My UKCAT is my main concern

Thanks!

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I was wondering where a medicine applicants 2017 thread would be

I got 7A* 3A (Including English lit and lang ) and 1B (drama, lol) in my GCSEs and I'm taking Maths, Further Maths, Biology Chemistry and Physics. Predicted 4A* 1A for A2 (A in maths ) Although, at this rate I may drop Physics before taking it at AS, definitely will drop it afterwards.

My GCSE's aren't ideal (damn English grades!) but they are good, so I'm happy about that, but it means I can't apply to some universities...

I don't have any work experience (as of yet) but I find it amazing that some universities ask for at least 2 weeks of it (Do all of them ask that, or just some, because it is so difficult, especially for people born in summer like me...), and also, what counts as work experience?

In terms of extra curricular, I do babysitting from time to time, I volunteer at a local charity shop for two hours every week and have been doing so for almost 2 years, I volunteer with Revive through my school (a charity which helps with asylum seekers, giving them a friendly face, helping them to live in England, and teaching them English (I haven't actually gone to the centre due to FMaths, but they don't need to know that? Right? ))

I'll also be doing DofE Gold (Hopefully )

I'm currently hoping to apply to Keele, but I'm still not really sure, and haven't done enough research on the universities...

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Okay, so now that I've got everything else that matters for application, here's what I got:AS Levels - AAAA In Maths, Further Maths, Biology and Chemistry (Dropped Physics at Christmas - found it dull and I thought it would drag my grades down, since I was not motivated to revise it at all)Predicted A Levels - A*A*A* (I think, lol) I've dropped Further Maths as, even though I really enjoy it, there was no point in continuing it on UKCAT - 2360 Band 1 (787 average)Work experience:Volunteer Work:I decided against DofE I'm thinking that I'm going to apply to Plymouth, Newcastle, UEA and BSMS, but I'm going to look at some of the Scottish universities next week, so we'll see what I think of them, and I've also been considering Barts and the London.

Great stats! You should apply to kings! Apparently the ukcat cut off for newcastle this year is gonna be 800. Heard it from a staff

Well that's just obvious *******s.
Are you sure you heard that from staff?

Well that's just obvious *******s.
Are you sure you heard that from staff?

I'm SOOOO FREAKIN UPSET THAT IT MIGHT BE 800!!! ******** lots of people have been talking about it, My scores 730 and i dunno what im gonna do. do you have any advice???