In a very difficult situation with not meeting my medicine offer....

So, I received an offer to study medicine at Cambridge and King's College London with the entry requirements of A*A*A and A*AA respectively. What happened is that I got AAA so I missed my offer. Cambridge have a system where they might still give you a place if you're close enough to your offer (e.g. A*AA). If I resit, my chances of getting into Cambridge is lowered. I have no offers and I would prefer to resit than do a degree like biomedical science and apply for postgraduate entry. Also, my grades are roughly in the middle of their boundary so a good remark would be unlikely. What do I do?

I know these are really competitive, but is a medicine foundation year an option at this point?

What subjects did you do at A levels? and with AAA you could still apply to medicine at other medical schools... you wouldn't need to resit.

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I've done Maths, Biology and Chemistry. Is there any way I could still get into Cambridge?

With resits and reapplication probably not. If two of your grades come up from remarks before August 31st you would still get into Cambridge and if one goes up you would still get into King's.

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Alright, thank you

I had an interview with St George's and failed it, so unfortunately can't enter through clearing with them

So, I received an offer to study medicine at Cambridge and King's College London with the entry requirements of A*A*A and A*AA respectively. What happened is that I got AAA so I missed my offer. Cambridge have a system where they might still give you a place if you're close enough to your offer (e.g. A*AA). If I resit, my chances of getting into Cambridge is lowered. I have no offers and I would prefer to resit than do a degree like biomedical science and apply for postgraduate entry. Also, my grades are roughly in the middle of their boundary so a good remark would be unlikely. What do I do?

So, I received an offer to study medicine at Cambridge and King's College London with the entry requirements of A*A*A and A*AA respectively. What happened is that I got AAA so I missed my offer. Cambridge have a system where they might still give you a place if you're close enough to your offer (e.g. A*AA). If I resit, my chances of getting into Cambridge is lowered. I have no offers and I would prefer to resit than do a degree like biomedical science and apply for postgraduate entry. Also, my grades are roughly in the middle of their boundary so a good remark would be unlikely. What do I do?

They might have spacing for medicine, but they are way too low in the rankings; ~300+ in THE uni ranking system. It would be quite unpleasant and upsetting for OP to go from having Oxbridge medical offer to going to a relatively unknown ~300 ranked uni, in my opinion.

Although ranks dont matter as much for medicine, I'd personally feel humiliated to enter a ~300 uni when I had a uni in top 5 as firm and top 15 as insurance.

So, I received an offer to study medicine at Cambridge and King's College London with the entry requirements of A*A*A and A*AA respectively. What happened is that I got AAA so I missed my offer. Cambridge have a system where they might still give you a place if you're close enough to your offer (e.g. A*AA). If I resit, my chances of getting into Cambridge is lowered. I have no offers and I would prefer to resit than do a degree like biomedical science and apply for postgraduate entry. Also, my grades are roughly in the middle of their boundary so a good remark would be unlikely. What do I do?

I wasn't aware of that so that's true though; in a couple of years the ranking for medicine should increase but generally the overall rank may be lower than the 'standard' OP would want with his/her grades.

I understand what you're saying. I just think it's more of an ego oriented issue with not willing to accept Anglia Ruskin or Keele for medicine, rather than thinking you'd be disadvantaged as an ARU doctor compared to a Cambridge doctor.