Barts and The London Applicants 2012

Urgh. End of Feb is going to turn into beginning of March isn't it?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean but from my experience BATL is one of the "whiter" or at least mixed medical schools I know of.

It's already turned into mid-march

How come? FML

Now the interviews are over I just feel like I need to ask: Are we allowed to talk about the article now? Or the interview in detail? Or both? Just wondering..

Now the interviews are over I just feel like I need to ask: Are we allowed to talk about the article now? Or the interview in detail? Or both? Just wondering..

We can't be 100% sure there's no interviews after 28th, it could be that there are non-tsr users who have interviews after that and with the increase in applicants, I wouldn't be surprised... so to be safe, I think we shouldn't quite yet

We can't be 100% sure there's no interviews after 28th, it could be that there are non-tsr users who have interviews after that and with the increase in applicants, I wouldn't be surprised... so to be safe, I think we shouldn't quite yet

I'd like you to wait until the first offer is given out.

Another week or so VV, then you can spam about the details all you want

Hey, I never said we'd be going for a night out. I said I'd have a few bevvies and probably wouldn't be going out since noone goes out on a thursday.


It's on a Wednesday??

Any pre-fresher brave enough to come drinking with us would be coming to tables. The sports drinking night.
We will ruin you. FACT.

That page is so true






I hope you had no intention of going to Imperial med school then

Hi everyone,
I havent really posted on here so the regulars on here wont know me, but ive been following this thread like crazy, barts is my first choice what can i say!

So two things really..
1) im confused as too the dates about offers... and rejections ... is it mid march or is that really to bide for time and as recent posts have suggested it's really much sooner as in next week?
2) Also i was wondering if anyone had the same interview experience as me? , i felt it went okay i didnt trip up or say absoutely the wrong thing but they weren't what i would say as friendly to me as some people have suggested talking about their hobbies!!, at times one interviewer looked at the other not necessarily in what looked like an encouraging way and what they did ask me didnt give me a chance to sell myself and what ive done more opinon questions that not much really could be said or anything brought in. i mean i guess my personal statement has it infront of them but just wondered what people thought about my experience?

sorry for the essay/story
thanks x

I didn't notice the looking thing but it seemed a lot more like they wanted to get to know me than hear me "selling myself"
It's like
We've seen your PS, you've got the academics, now what are you like?
That's how it felt anyway, i got slightly thrown by the lack of like structure, by far the most open interview i've had to date.

Maybe 'selling youself' is the wrong phrase but have the ability to bring in experiences that have led to believe what you are saying, and therefore by doing that making ure self more appealing. Oh yes defentilly open, oh i guess i cant change anything now just hope they liked me and the offer: interview ratio is encouraging. Fingers crossed we hear soon :P

That's what I mean.
Still, my interview last about 10 minutes (not the 15-20 they said it would be) and half of it was discussing rugby.
So I dunno shows teamwork etc etc etc but it felt a bit like they were looking for an open side flanker as well as a med student :P

You know I have heard of interviews where they talk about random things but I always wonder... how did it get to rugby in the first place?

Hi everyone,
I havent really posted on here so the regulars on here wont know me, but ive been following this thread like crazy, barts is my first choice what can i say!

So two things really..
1) im confused as too the dates about offers... and rejections ... is it mid march or is that really to bide for time and as recent posts have suggested it's really much sooner as in next week?
2) Also i was wondering if anyone had the same interview experience as me? , i felt it went okay i didnt trip up or say absoutely the wrong thing but they weren't what i would say as friendly to me as some people have suggested talking about their hobbies!!, at times one interviewer looked at the other not necessarily in what looked like an encouraging way and what they did ask me didnt give me a chance to sell myself and what ive done more opinon questions that not much really could be said or anything brought in. i mean i guess my personal statement has it infront of them but just wondered what people thought about my experience?

sorry for the essay/story
thanks x

don't worry, I had a similar experience, think they were just pushing us? I feel like all the questions they asked were more challenging than other peoples
we can talk about specifics in more detail when the moderator gives us the okay?

Tell us what you do for extra curricular?
Well, there's x,y and rugby.
Oh rugby? Been watching the 6 nations? What position do you play? Who was your mother's brothers first cousin? type thing.

Maybe we had the same interviewer ha ha but im glad it wasn't just me. Sounds good. i liked to think maybe they were impressed with my personal statement and in a sense filled that criteria and they just wanted to find out my thinking process on topics and feelings about the med sch. Really hard not to go into detail ha ha

Oh man, if only my interview was during six nations it could have gone down that route. In mine one of the interviewers chatted about his son at one point