Which is more competitive medicine or dentistry?

i heard that dentistry is regarded as 2nd best by most science students so if they dont get accepted in medicine they reapply to dentistry?
is this really true... which course is actually more competitive and can any1 give me any useful websites to visit on dentistry/medicine and how competitive the courses actually are please?
thnx :smile:

Reply 1

Scipio

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Medicine marginally.

Reply 2

SupaMega

Well I recently had a UCAS evening at my school which droned on about the obvious 'ive heard it ten times already' stuff but then got onto some interesting statistics about the applicants to places ratios for certain degrees. GUESS WHICH ONE CAME OUT TOP! medicine with a whopping 25:1, i.e for every place in the country offering A100, there were 25 applicants vying for a place. And surprisingly drama was in the top 4 as well. Dentistry was number 2 if my memory serves me correctly.

Reply 3

nabzp

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*Princess*

i heard that dentistry is regarded as 2nd best by most science students so if they dont get accepted in medicine they reapply to dentistry?

I don't think so, it's regarded on it's own, different from medicine. most medics i know wouldn't want to do dentistry and vice versa.

Reply 4

Blates as

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Dentistry is, I think, slightly more competitve than medicine in terms of applications to place. I read that most medical schools average around 8-12 apps per place (there are few exceptions like soton and cardiff). I read that applications to dentistry averaged around 10-15 per place.

I know for certain that there are more applications per place for dentistry than medicine at Manchester and Birimingham.

Reply 5

Scipio

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SupaMega

Well I recently had a UCAS evening at my school which droned on about the obvious 'ive heard it ten times already' stuff but then got onto some interesting statistics about the applicants to places ratios for certain degrees. GUESS WHICH ONE CAME OUT TOP! medicine with a whopping 25:1, i.e for every place in the country offering A100, there were 25 applicants vying for a place. And surprisingly drama was in the top 4 as well. Dentistry was number 2 if my memory serves me correctly.

Surely that's wrong. The most popular med schools don't exceed ~18 applications/place, never mind 25/place on average.

Reply 6

Thales

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Pav27

Surely that's wrong. The most popular med schools don't exceed ~18 applications/place, never mind 25/place on average.

I thought the same thing, but do correct me if I've missed something here.

Reply 7

friendlyneutron

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*Princess*

i heard that dentistry is regarded as 2nd best by most science students so if they dont get accepted in medicine they reapply to dentistry?
is this really true... which course is actually more competitive and can any1 give me any useful websites to visit on dentistry/medicine and how competitive the courses actually are please?
thnx :smile:

To be honest, if someone's going to be taking a whole year out to reapply, I don't see why they wouldn't reapply to medicine, the course they actually want to do, instead of applying for a course that they don't want to do and that's almost as competitive as medicine.

Reply 8

Thales

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Ah. The swent scent of logic has finally settled.

Ehrm, I'm just in a weird mood.

Reply 9

Saffie

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Pav27

Surely that's wrong. The most popular med schools don't exceed ~18 applications/place, never mind 25/place on average.

i saw on medschoolguide that cardiff had 25/place

Reply 10

rhythm_bandit

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I read that in terms of application to place ratio competitivness is like this:
Vetinary medicine>dentistry>medicine

its because there are so few places for vetinary med compared to medicine.

also take into account the huge expansions of med school places in recent years, aided by the new med schools too.

Reply 11

~*tweety*~

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nabzp

I don't think so, it's regarded on it's own, different from medicine. most medics i know wouldn't want to do dentistry and vice versa.

i agree, they r both different. i think that the competitiveness (if thats a word! :p:

) lol, for both is very close!

Reply 12

michaela_banana

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Maybe the 25:1 was for GEM programmes, although then it seems almost too low....

Reply 13

rhythm_bandit

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Reply 14

Soph33

Maybe the GEP and normal med ratio combined is 25:1?

I was still under impression that vetmed was more competitive - and higher requirements in that they have to have all 3 sciences & so much more w/e & can be AAA.

Reply 15

Scipio

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It is.

Reply 16

nina_100

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Yeah, I thought vet med was more competitive too!! But then again this year I think more people I know have been accepted onto vet med courses compared to the medicine courses where people seem to be struggling?? Or is that just me?