Leicester, Newcastle or Aberdeen for Medicine?

I would say Newcastle for the social life, but I doubt you'll be on the club scene if you're doing medicine, sounds intensive.

Oh how wrong you are.

I've heard it has among the biggest workloads, alongside engineering, compsci and law

Work hard and play hard.

Yeh there's a lot of lectures but that doesn't stop most medics going out 2 or 3 times a week. You have to scale it down when coursework is due or exams are coming up, but that's the same for all courses. The only real difference in the first 2 years is that you don't get as many mornings or afternoons off as your counterparts.

I'd say in the first two years i went out most Wednesdays and Fridays as well as other odd nights here and there. I wasn't an exception either. Fridays in Newcastle they do Medsoc which is an open bar for all members, so you'll frequently find a couple of hundred medics crammed into the union/hancock getting blazed.

3rd year you do tone it down a lot because you're more tired and can't really afford to be hungover in the hospital environment (well, not too often anyway). 4th year it opens up again though, especially the first semester.

You don't really need to sacrifice social life to be a medic, you've just gotta balance things a bit better than most. A lot of applicants on here have overblown ideas of how hard medicine is, it's not really that much different to most degrees in pre-clinical years.

I was going to quote you for your response when i saw the comment on not going out due to studying medicine... turns out you responded anyway

What you've said excites me no end, cannot wait for Newcastle now

Tbh it's the one I would've picked, it's a nice city with plenty going on, and is relatively compact, so you won't feel lost. I got an offer for History there, but decided on Manchester instead, didn't get that 'feel' when I visited, and Mancs was two hours away, Ncl was a further 2 hours away after that and the cold winters (even though NW will be cold also) put me off slightly, you're going to have a smashing time! Good luck with everything Dr.