University of Birmingham A100 2022 entry

Hope you don’t mind me hopping on this discussion! Do you think it’s safe to assume that B’ham UCAT score bands will be similar to last year’s? I’m a bit worried that given B’ham compute their own deciles based on their applicant pool (if I’ve understood correctly) that this could be a bit of a moveable feast. My daughter would have been in their 9th decile last year, and so her score would have been over the 7.5 mark (she’s non contextual). That would change though if she were to drop into the 8th decile this year, and I’m not sure how to assess this based on, for example, the interim deciles that were released yesterday.

Welcome on board!
Yes, Birmingham use their own deciles, which are genrally higher than the official ones, as they have more high-scoring applicants, but I would suspeect they would be similar to last year. It can increase the risk if you sit right on the bottom of a decile, though

Thank you, good to be here!
So my next questions is, what constitutes bottom of a decile?! My daughter has a UCAT of 2810 and B’ham 9th decile last year was 2790 - 2900. I’m worried it could go either way and if she ends up in the 8th then it’ll have been a wasted choice.
She would like to pick one of B’ham or Notts, where she’s scoring 132, and it’s not proving easy! She has band 1 situational judgement …
Again, your words of wisdom are v much appreciated.

It is hard to be sure, but there has not been a lot of movement on Birmingham deciles between years, generally, and 20 points would be quite a lot.
I would also have hoped 132 will be safe for Nottingham, so she should choose the one she likes best, where there is no clear pointer one way or the other.

do you need to be in both the school list and polar 3 to be classed as contextual or just one

Hi guys, this is a general question which I would really like an honest answer to.

If I didn’t get all 9s at GCSE and have a few 7s and 8s and one 6, do you think I would have a chance of getting into UoB for medicine?

Please do reply thank you!

Birmingham score 5 core GCSEs and two extra. Depending on your contextual points, and UCAT, you can possibly drop a grade on one or two of these

Thanks for letting me know, Hope I get in!!!

Hi
I’ve just seen that University of Birmingham has raised their entry requirements for medicine to A*AA. Should we be worried about this? Also will other medical schools follow along and raise their entry requirements?