CURRENT YEAR 13s-Hopeful Medics (Mk. II)!

They said you basically have to meet the minimum entry requirements for academics because they realise that different people blossom at different points- so just get six A's at GCSE (but no resits allowed, even modules to get those six A's, they're not bothered about resits in the others) and then ABBB at AS, again same resit policy. With UKCAT they said, in the guy's words, they got it wrong 2 years ago, and apparently the speaker tried it out and got 0 haha so they decided to change the policy- now you need a score of 2400 (so 600 in each section) and you go on to the next stage of the process, once you've passed all those requirements, they look at your ps and make interviews on that

Sheffield isn't the only medical school that gives out those ****ty free highlighters

I visited Jesus!



In Cambridge I really like Gonville and Caius and Christs. At Oxford I really liked Worcester, Brasenose and Wadham.

In all fairness though I'm not sure if I am going to apply to either. My GCSEs are a bit below par for Oxford and my AS levels are probably going to be the same for Cambridge. The only way I can see myself being a serious applicant is if I apply with full A Level results, so that no further academic promise is necessary. The only way that will happen is if I don't get in for 2013 cycle, so I am obviously trying to avoid that situation.

Yep i know it was the same for my talk, But when i e-mailed them they said they allow them, and also on the website theres no mention on not allowing moduler resits.

Sounds like a really good application process

Really? They stressed quite a bit in my talk that they don't like resits and would only consider them if you had extenuating circumstances..?

So... am I the only one that visited Jesus College at the open day? I have to say I loved it (and who wouldn't want to say that they go to Jesus?), along with Emmanuel. They're my two favourite from Cambridge. Some of you guys here are too strong competitors... so don't apply to Jesus/Emma. On the other hand, Trinity and Kings really put me off.

I visited Jesus!



In Cambridge I really like Gonville and Caius and Christs. At Oxford I really liked Worcester, Brasenose and Wadham.

In all fairness though I'm not sure if I am going to apply to either. My GCSEs are a bit below par for Oxford and my AS levels are probably going to be the same for Cambridge. The only way I can see myself being a serious applicant is if I apply with full A Level results, so that no further academic promise is necessary. The only way that will happen is if I don't get in for 2013 cycle, so I am obviously trying to avoid that situation.

I knoww! I really really like sheffield now, especially since they're not ukcat crazy anymore

dreading my school reference, lol.

haha major deciding factor- nottingham had pens with highlighters on the other end! They're amazing.



They said you basically have to meet the minimum entry requirements for academics because they realise that different people blossom at different points- so just get six A's at GCSE (but no resits allowed, even modules to get those six A's, they're not bothered about resits in the others) and then ABBB at AS, again same resit policy. With UKCAT they said, in the guy's words, they got it wrong 2 years ago, and apparently the speaker tried it out and got 0 haha so they decided to change the policy- now you need a score of 2400 (so 600 in each section) and you go on to the next stage of the process, once you've passed all those requirements, they look at your ps and make interviews on that




Really?! Okay that's it I'm applying to sheffield

would you apply to oxbridge after a gap year? or would you just want to maximise your chances of getting onto a course to do medicine?

Either way, I prefarablydont want to take a gap year, because I don't have the money to go anywhere interesting, and because I have concentrated so much of my effort into getting into Medicine first time round. I still have no certainties about where I will and won't apply, exceot perhaps Belfast because of the impraicalities of living a body of water away from family support.

dreading my school reference, lol.

Me too considering that all my teachers think the only useful thing to talk about in my personal statement is academics and they think extracurriculars/ work experience are useless for medicine, what is my reference going to be like?

Hey did anyone go to the UCL open day and if so could you tell me how they use UMS marks and if they're that important ?

I did, I went to a medicine talk in the morning.

They didn't put much focus on UMS marks. They didn't like module resits. They wanted things done in one sitting, so they want you to put down the modules.

They wanted demonstrations of academic ability, so they say they look at GCSEs a lot. They wanted to see good AS grades, and not just high predictions.