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I thought Nottingham scores individual sections, I never knew they have a cut off for each sub sections. Do they?
Original post by Priya_Biju
For GCSE, I went to a comprehensive school and I got the highest in my school. However for my A levels I went to a grammar school.
Would they look at where I did my GCSE. I have mentioned this in my PS.


I don't think kcl will bother about what school you go to...unless you have extenuating circumstances.
I know many people who went t comprehensive schools and did brilliantly academically.

Also you really shouldn't be mentioning that in your PS. : S a no go.
Original post by Dr.Ugs
Nottingham have a subtest cut of score an I'm not sure your VR score would meet it. I didn't apply there either because i got 490 on VR lol


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I thought Nottingham scores individual sections, I never knew they have a cut off for each sub sections. Do they?
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Original post by Priya_Biju
I thought Nottingham scores individual sections, I never knew they have a cut off for each sub sections. Do they?

Oh yeah sorry! I just checked it an it did say scored! I thought it would be the same as Plymouth but it's not! I'm so sorry for my confusion lol

I would still not meet their GCSE requirements lol so still not applying there.

Kings is a risky one for you though so consider it


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Original post by Dr.Ugs
Oh yeah sorry! I just checked it an it did say scored! I thought it would be the same as Plymouth but it's not! I'm so sorry for my confusion lol

I would still not meet their GCSE requirements lol so still not applying there.

Kings is a risky one for you though so consider it


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:smile::smile: phew ! lol, I had a mini panic attack there. lol. Thanks for clarifying it thou.
I know, Kings is a bigggg risk. But I feel that I should take the risk anyways or else I will regret not applying. I always wanted to go and study medicine at Kings. Well, I like all my choices but you know... Would love to study in London.
A risk worth taking :tongue:
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I know many people who went t comprehensive schools and did brilliantly academically.
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I know many people at comprehensive school do exceptionally well academically. But I got the highest my school have ever seen (kind of gives u an idea of the quality of teaching at my school). I had to self teach GCSE Maths to myself as I had supply teacher for the whole of year 10 and half of year 11. :s-smilie: Was the only person who got A* in it too. :/
#Dagenham :redface:

Oh well, gonna give Kings a try.
Original post by Priya_Biju
I know many people at comprehensive school do exceptionally well academically. But I got the highest my school have ever seen (kind of gives u an idea of the quality of teaching at my school). I had to self teach GCSE Maths to myself as I had supply teacher for the whole of year 10 and half of year 11. :s-smilie: Was the only person who got A* in it too. :/
#Dagenham :redface:

Oh well, gonna give Kings a try.


Well done! Perhaps you can include it in your reference if you really want to.

Sure, give kcl a try, it's your application :biggrin:
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Original post by Priya_Biju
:smile::smile: phew ! lol, I had a mini panic attack there. lol. Thanks for clarifying it thou.
I know, Kings is a bigggg risk. But I feel that I should take the risk anyways or else I will regret not applying. I always wanted to go and study medicine at Kings. Well, I like all my choices but you know... Would love to study in London.
A risk worth taking :tongue:


Im in the same situation! I have three choices where my application stands fairly strong and one risky one that I really like! (Durham- with a UKCAT of 707.5 people are saying its really risky :frown: because its likely to increase from last years 695!!)

Well I hope you get in :smile:
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Original post by FlavaFavourFruit
I don't think kcl will bother about what school you go to...unless you have extenuating circumstances.
I know many people who went t comprehensive schools and did brilliantly academically.
.


Original post by Priya_Biju
I know many people at comprehensive school do exceptionally well academically. But I got the highest my school have ever seen (kind of gives u an idea of the quality of teaching at my school). I had to self teach GCSE Maths to myself as I had supply teacher for the whole of year 10 and half of year 11. :s-smilie: Was the only person who got A* in it too. :/
#Dagenham :redface:

Oh well, gonna give Kings a try.


Going to a comprehensive school can be mitigating circumstance (an example I can give is my own, I went to a sixth form that was the WORST in Manchester and has the lowest pass rate. ALL my friends walked out with Es and Us which really shows that going to a certain school can effect your performance) For this reason, my application was flagged for Keele medical school as well as Manchester last year. So you would be at a slight advantage.

I would suggest you check on the gov website to see where your school stands and have a look at what universities consider as extenuating circumstances and the contextual flagging criteria.
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Original post by Dr.Ugs
LOL :colondollar: no chance :tongue: and thanks.


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Lol I also thought you were a boy

I also researched UGS when I saw your name and I thought you had the name Dr. UGS to stand for

Urmston Grammar School

a sixth form based in Manchester lol
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Original post by AhmedDavid
Lol I also thought you were a boy

I also researched UGS when I saw your name and I thought you had the name Dr. UGS to stand for

Urmston Grammar School

a sixth form based in Manchester lol

You just made me LOL :ahee:

Thats actually a really clever way to make sense of my name! Taking into account im from Manchester! Nice one :biggrin: Although I never went to UGS :tongue:
To be honest I thought it was a reference to Ugg Boots....


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To be honest I thought it was a reference to Ugg Boots....


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second person to think that :smile: I dont even own a set of those:colondollar:
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Original post by Dr.Ugs
Going to a comprehensive school can be mitigating circumstance (an example I can give is my own, I went to a sixth form that was the WORST in Manchester and has the lowest pass rate. ALL my friends walked out with Es and Us which really shows that going to a certain school can effect your performance) For this reason, my application was flagged for Keele medical school as well as Manchester last year. So you would be at a slight advantage.

I would suggest you check on the gov website to see where your school stands and have a look at what universities consider as extenuating circumstances and the contextual flagging criteria.


Keele flag students who went to poor performing schools? source?
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Original post by MX123
Keele flag students who went to poor performing schools? source?


I have spoken to the admissions tutors on numerous occasions last year because I attended quite a few of the medical events held there :smile:

Here is a document that outlines how they flag. My application was definitely flagged last year as I asked them it after I sent it off.

http://www.keele.ac.uk/health/schoolsandcollegeliaison/WP%20Strategy%20final.pdf

If you look at Page 9 you will find the reference.

I think they have adopted some of the strategies from Manchester Medical school as they initiated Keele Med school! :biggrin:

Hope that helps
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Original post by Dr.Ugs
I have spoken to the admissions tutors on numerous occasions last year because I attended quite a few of the medical events held there :smile:

Here is a document that outlines how they flag. My application was definitely flagged last year as I asked them it after I sent it off.

http://www.keele.ac.uk/health/schoolsandcollegeliaison/WP%20Strategy%20final.pdf

If you look at Page 9 you will find the reference.

I think they have adopted some of the strategies from Manchester Medical school as they initiated Keele Med school! :biggrin:

Hope that helps


Thanks!

That's great, I'll phone tomorrow to confirm if I have a flag

Are you reapplying there?
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Can someone link me to where I can find out if my school is a poor performing school - Thanks
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Original post by MX123
Thanks!

That's great, I'll phone tomorrow to confirm if I have a flag

Are you reapplying there?

Thats good! Keele is an amazing med school. Still my favorite!

And I cant reapply as I was rejected post interview :frown: They have a policy regarding reapplicants
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Original post by AhmedDavid
Can someone link me to where I can find out if my school is a poor performing school - Thanks


http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/
To keep you all motivated and as a bit of a shameless self-promotional plug, I've a freshers blog if anyone fancies a read :tongue:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2464272

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