Imperial College- Medicine 2017 entry

They probably would offer help if you ask, the senior tutors are very helpful. I had money concerns at the end of my first year, and they had a chat with me (because we were sorting housing out around the exam period so I was extra stressed) and things worked out in the end. I'm now in my second year and getting a long reasonably well in terms of money, I have a job and I live with 4 friends in a good location. It's just a fact of life that money will be tight as a student, but you know, that's kind of the case at any uni...

Don't worry about this now though, seriously, things work out. I genuinely thought I could be homeless in second year haha, because I thought that there would be no one for me to live with and that I wouldn't be able to afford it, it caused a lot of stress, but here I am still going

Thanks. What happens if you failed an exam? Can you resit?

You can resit each exam once, and if you fail those without good reason then you're unfortunately kicked out. It is very rare though, we had atleast 2 in our year, but we were a very very big year

Fair enough. Are you happy with the standard of teaching? Doesnt having all the exams at the end of the year put you under a lot of pressure or do you get plenty of time to prepare once the teaching is finished? Sorry for all the questions just all medical schools seem to do things slightly differently

Teaching's alright, some courses are better than others, for example endocrinology and pharmacology are taught very well, neuroscience and anatomy is not taught particularly well (but as I've said before, you have to do a lot of self study for anatomy). As for there being lots of pressure, well, it's just the same as at school right? At school you do your exams at the end of the year, it's no different at medical school. You get lots of time don't worry

That's true! Thank you for answering all my questions - trying to decide between Imperial & UCL!

Well, just bear in mind that imperial is the 3rd best medical school in the country and UCL is 5th

I joke, don't use that as a reason!

I've received an offer from imperial last Wednesday- on ucas track- but I still haven't received an email. Should I be worried? Should I even be waiting for an email? And one last question- is there any chance that imperial can withdraw their offer?


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Should you initiate a handshake with ALL the interviewers?

does anyone know how likely an offer is to be AAA rather than A*AA?

does anyone know how likely an offer is to be AAA rather than A*AA?

Received an offer last week "Offer" is A*A*A*- not really an offer since I'm a re-applicant, so they just want to check my certificates to make sure I wasn't using my application form as a space to write a sequel for Lord of the Rings

Received an offer last week "Offer" is A*A*A*- not really an offer since I'm a re-applicant, so they just want to check my certificates to make sure I wasn't using my application form as a space to write a sequel for Lord of the Rings

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