Barts and The London medicine applicants 2014

He,
I am really confused about something.

I have A*AAA which adds to a UCAS tariff of 500. But I also have AAAA at AS Level, would I have to add AS aswell or not?

Also I have a UKCAT of 690. With this tariff do you think that I should apply here?

Thanks and please help I am gutted. :frown:

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mariomario1

Original post by DrumChops

What was your tariff?

I'm not entirely sure. At the time I was predicted A*AAAA(now achieved A*A*A*AA) then I had 30 points from functional skills exams. I also did an ASDAN award which is supposedly worth 70 points . So at the time of applying my tariff was 720 I think.

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mariomario1

Original post by raveen789

How much emphasis do Bart's put on your personal statement like at interview, do they have any specific criteria?

The interview consisted of around 50% on the article they gave me and 50% on my personal statement. It was just the usual questions you'd expect and they tended to pick out some specific bits for example 'I see you went to a PreMed session. Tell me what you learnt from it' They were very friendly and the nerves went away very quickly. Before the interview however they do not use the personal statement at all. It is mainly used to generate questions at interview.

(edited 10 years ago)

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mariomario1

Original post by saucysalamander

Thank you!! Where else did you apply?

That's alright. I applied to Barts, Imperial, Southampton, Bristol and King's(for Chemistry with Biomedicine)

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Guys I read this on another thread and got me worried!

As an example, data on the Barts UCAS tariff score on their successful candidates indicate those with the highest scores were much more successful compared to those close to the cut-off boundary, something in the order of 86% receiving offers versus 32% for those close to the boundary.

I would be in the mid range criteria based on last years report :frown:

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Alexsk

Do u think guys that with a tariff of 788 and a ukcat 732.5 I will be in the high range?

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Original post by mariomario1

The interview consisted of around 50% on the article they gave me and 50% on my personal statement. It was just the usual questions you'd expect and they tended to pick out some specific bits for example 'I see you went to a PreMed session. Tell me what you learnt from it' They were very friendly and the nerves went away very quickly. Before the interview however they do not use the personal statement at all. It is mainly used to generate questions at interview.

Thank you <3

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Original post by Alexsk

Do u think guys that with a tariff of 788 and a ukcat 732.5 I will be in the high range?

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of course

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I have 540 tariff and 740 UKCAT, but after seeing some tariff here it is definitely inferior :frown:

But I believe the data you are looking at is from the 2012 cycle where BL changed their admissions criteria from solely UKCAT cut off to straight UCAS tariff ranking. When I applied to BL last year, we assumed that it was the same as in just UCAS tariff ranking but then they introduced the UCAS + UKCAT combo which we were not explicitly told about but had a feeling it was going to go this way. So I believe that now once you reach interview then the academics are left behind and it's down to your interview performance. BUT I could be wrong :smile:

Im a big worrier xD

Original post by mariomario1

Hi there! Don't worry about your UKCAT too much it's a decent enough score. I'm starting at Barts this year and got in with a very low score of 645 :biggrin:

. It's not the end of the world and your UCAS tariff seems very good with those predictions.

Hi

, i'm a bit new at all this. Pls what is meant by "UCAS points" or "UCAS tariff". Also applying this year for Graduate entry Med

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