International Medical Students applying to UK for 2013 intake!

Hey guys!
I'm an international student starting medicine at NCL in a few weeks.
Just wanna say its important to play to your strengths! I think it is quite important to apply for unis that look for different qualities in students. Eg. I applied to Kings (London/traditional ), Glasgow ( Scotland/PBL), Newcastle ( northeast of England/Integrated), and lastly Barts(London/Mostly PBL). As you can see the locations are already quite far apart, and their course structures are also different. I applied like this to ensure that when i failed 3, at least I'd get one :P It does improve your chances. I know loads of students who put all London unis down as their choices and failed to get in.
Anyways, good luck to all your applications and feel free to ask questions


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Thanks dude that was helpful! can you share us grades and experiences including GCSE A LEVEL and UKCAT so we can have a pretty good idea and the number of foffers and rejection so we can prepare for the worse and the best!

First post on TSR ever !

I'm an international and i wanted to know what are the trends this year with respect to the number of international students accepted to UK schools, are the numbers still very low ( that 7.5%) or will the rise in tuition fees have an effect on their int. intake ?

You're welcome!
Hmm A-Levels... In my opinion, I believe most Asian (lol) international students won't have a problem getting the grades, it's the interview that scares us most. Or maybe that's just me? Haha Anyways most med schools only require you to have 3 As (except for some London unis, and Oxbridge)but it's better to have 4 (or more) As or even A*s . Medicine is a really competitive course so you don't want to be disadvantaged there I guess. As for the UKCAT, I believe the 600Qs (or700?) blue book, sorry can't remember it's name, is much harder than what is actually examined. There are plenty of resources here on the TSR so you should go check em out. It's not really that hard so prepare for it well and you'll be fine. Try aiming for 650+. After you get your results back you should DEFO see which schools put emphasis on the UKCAT and which ones don't.

PS is an important thing that they'll look at, so you should write it WISELY. They not only use it for choosing applicant to attend interviews but also look at it DURING AND AFTER the interview. There's a Medical Personal Statements page on the TSR, go have a look at it. It helps!

Oh btw, I applied like this. I applied to Newcastle and Glasgow because they invite you to an interview purely looking at your grades and UKCAT. If you've exceeded the cut-off for both, you're almost 100% sure you'll get an interview from them. So if you're not sure that your PS is good/great, you can at least gain yourself an interview. It's really important to check out the school requirements cuz I'm sure there's more than 2 that does it this way.

Hope this helps :P


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I'm here if anyone has questions about applying as an international student!

Please. Does IELTS test needs to be taken before the ucas application deadline?


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Please. Does IELTS test needs to be taken before the ucas application deadline?


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International applicant from Hong Kong. Going to Bristol next month!


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Hi!
So what is the qualification you have got other than GCSE and what are the grades? It doesn't matter if you have GCSE's or not as long as Equivalent qualifications with good grades though!

Hey guys, do you think 650 avg in ukcat is too low for king's college? my o'level and a'level grades are pretty strong though

Thanks.
I only have grades from Chinese High school. However, my tutor tells me that they are not equivalent with IGCSE's.