2017 Bristol medicine hopefuls

Same, the only email i have had is the application acknowledgement and have not heard anything else.
Can someone please screenshot their 'considering your application' email?

People on here are speculating that if you haven't had the 'we are considering' email, your application hasn't been seen/scored yet. Those who have had those emails reckon there applications have been scored but they are on 'hold' - i.e have been scored but haven't yet been given an interview, but have possibly done well enough to not get a straight rejection.

As I said this is just speculation and I don't think any of us can know for sure

BUT no news is ALWAYS good news (that's what I'm trying to tell myself anyway)

do you think if i called up the uni and just started crying and yelling my UCAS id, would increase my chances? it would show my desperate need for an acceptance lmfao

Hahaha XD

If that would work I'd be straight on the phone to all four of my choices :P

Other Universities are a bit more straightforward - they issue interviews /rejections/ offers at the same kind if time. Bristol seem to send out emails at random times and it is hard based on your grades and UKCAT to predict whether or not you get an interview or not. I got 660 in my UKCAT but if I had got 15-20 more marks I would not have applied. I feel the Bristol application is nearly like hoping your name will be picked out of a hat. I applied last year with good grades PS (I thought) and saw people with considerably less grades and work experience than me get interviews. This year I have AAAA achieved A levels and have been for 3 months working 40 hours a week as a health care assistant bathing and dressing the elderly and disabled in the community. As these are mainly house calls I do at peoples home I am alone and I have learnt so much. Over the summer I trained to take blood etc and I am doing that also.
Also last year I wrote my own PS with no help. This year I got several doctors I know to add input, I also got medic portal to help me - showing them exactly what Bristol want. If I get rejected this time it will probably because it looks too good and professional that they wont think it has been written by an 18 year old! LOL

You mentioned if your ukcat was a bit higher you would not apply

I have 680 band 1, which is exactly 20 more😂 why do you think that it wasn't a good idea to apply with that score?


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Thanks! I was literally stressing for nothing then. Havnt got any emails, does this mean they havnt read mine yet? I wanted all early interviews to get them over with, that's a shame at least it's not necessarily bad news!

If that happened to me this year I would be sooo annoyed because my birthday is on the 26th November!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got the still considering email like 2.5 weeks ago and the acknowledgement email ages before. What does this mean? That I am on hold?

Surely now that they use the UKCAT they'll get fewer applicants?

Same, the only email i have had is the application acknowledgement and have not heard anything else. Can someone please screenshot their 'considering your application' email?

Oh dear... I'll have to ring UCAS to change it... Two of mine say "declared" one says "undeclared" and one has nothing at all


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Loool I would love to study at Bristol! I think it's my top choice... Hopefully I get an interview


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Loool I would love to study at Bristol! I think it's my top choice... Hopefully I get an interview


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Where did you apply? Yeah, I'd be ecstatic to get a place anywhere in the UK! I'm applying abroad as well, but ofc I would rather stay in the UK as 5/6 years is quite long and I'd miss my family 😂 I notice from earlier posts that you're a graduate, what is your degree in? (If you don't want to answer it's fine)


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Ah that's so cool! I'm applying for Liverpool, Notts Bristol and st George's.

Honestly I don't see why being an arts grad would put you (or anyone in your position) at a disadvantage, surely it makes you more rounded as an individual and it ensures that medicine is what you really want to do as you can already go and do another job if you want? That's my opinion anyway, I really hope you get in as you seem really dedicated to becoming a doctor!


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I've applied to Glasgow and Warwick as well as Bristol and Aberdeen . My ukcat wasn't as high as hoped hence why I've only put one GEM option down! But tbh the traditional courses have grown on me (despite the finance!).

How about you?

I am indeed! I'm a journalism graduate and I worked in science journalism (medical/vet med) and research (which led me to want to pursue medicine). That feels like a lifetime ago as I'm now in the NHS as a HCA.

I was worried that being an arts grad would put me at a disadvantage as many graduates who apply are bio med, but someone at Aberdeen was a former journo and there are med students with English degrees!


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I know a teacher at my school that got into medicine with Classics!