*MEGATHREAD* - The Ultimate 'Am I Good Enough For Medicine?' Angst Thread MK III

look on the wiki page -how to apply to your strengths

I'm not too keen on taking a gap year, as I'd rather just go for a fairly easy degree, try for a 2.1 or 1st to set myself up for graduate entry. Besides Im sure sheffield, brighton and others are possibilities too, I need to call them up. It's like I have EVERYTHING else sorted, but the grades. If I do really well on the UKCAT, would that not work in my favour?

Oh god I'm in a similar position as you

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Here's my situation. AS grades: ACCC. I know it seems crazy, but I was getting all A's up to the exams, so I know it was a blip that can be fixed with hard work.
Is Medicine still achievable?

To be honest, no matter what anyone says it is always had to tell because something on your application could look really good to the admin tutors so thus they put more weighting on that aspect than your grades. The only thing i would make sure you do is email/telephone all of your choices to make sure you are eligble with A*ABc and A*AB predictions after that you meet their academic requirements so make sure all you other stuff is good and also bare in mind since you are in a more of a vulnerable position getting a strong UKCAT score will do well tom compensate because medical schools appreciate everyone gets different qualities of education so the UKCAT is something that is a good tool to compare candidates + also the UKCAT is where even straight A* students get average scores so just work hard at that, your personal statements, make sure your reference is good and I would give it a go, the main goal is getting an interview and then you can show of in person why you are suitable.

Apply for medicine anyway. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain and something about your application could stand out and might just land you an interview and then an offer. Be sure to have a 5th choice so that if you do end up with 4 rejections, you can accept that and think about doing graduate entry medicine. Be warned though - graduate entry is no child's play and it is a lot harder to get a place than it is with undergraduate level but it certainly isn't impossible.

Yeah I realise, my brother got an interview for graduate entry where they have the 'speed dating' interview. Ridiculously challenging, yet I think it's still possible.

Well, it will be nothing less than challenging.
There's the easy(/ier) way (i.e. getting in after sixth form), and there's the hard way. I'd say give the easy way a go first

If I can guarantee at least 3 unis accepting A*AB minus Bio, then I'll probably go for it.

Well, that's up to you but in my opinion, you come across as being somewhat 'scared' of receiving rejections. Either way, I highly doubt you're going to find 3 universities that are willing to accept A*AB. At the same time, you don't need AAA at AS to get an offer.

At the end of the day, it's your decision that matters. I've voiced my opinion and I wish you the best with your application!

Well I'd rather not waste 4 choices if I haven't got a hope of getting in, so the rejection is the thing holding me back. And what do you mean you don't need AAA for the offer? Isn't that kind of contradictory?

At AS. It is still possible to get an offer without getting AAA at AS if the rest of your application is good enough.

Yeah I suppose so, but doesn't the prediction have to be mainly A's at least? I'm sure a lot of uni's immediately turn away any B's in the predictions.