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Reply 1
maze.e
My mate told me theres a few medical schools that do not require UKcat does anyone have information on this.


Why not check out the UKCAT website, make a list of thsoe who don't use it, cross out which of those using BMAT, and what ever's left is your answer... :rolleyes: /:wink:
Reply 2
There are plenty of schools that don't use MCAT, the ones who use GAMSAT for instance...
Reply 3
Yeah, there are eight undergraduate courses (including NI) that don't require the UKCAT, of which four require the BMAT instead. A search of this forum should come up with a list of which places require which tests.

I shouldn't use this as a sole selection criterion though - I suspect these four non-admissions test places will be rather over-subscribed next year, as has apparently happened in the past with graduate courses and GAMSAT.
Reply 4
Bristol i know but apparently birmingham as stated by my friend from the 1st year and also now on the website, the requirement of 5A* and 3A's offical!

EDIT: The UKCAT is an admissions test for medical and dental schools, first being used next applications cycle (ie 2007 entry). It is required for medicine by:

Aberdeen
Bart's and the London (undergraduate course)
Brighton and Sussex
Cardiff
Dundee
Durham
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull York
Keele
King’s College London (five and six year courses)
Leeds
Leicester
Manchester
Newcastle (undergraduate course)
Nottingham
Oxford (graduate course)
Peninsula Medical School
Sheffield
Southampton (undergraduate course)
St Andrews
St George’s, University of London (undergraduate course)
Reply 5
Won't there be too many applicants for the med schools that do not require UKCAT and therefore more difficult to get a place?!
Reply 6
Quite possibly. Apparently it's happened with other admissions tests. Personally, I'd prefer to apply to a university asking for UKCAT as at least I know one thing they will be using to score candidates, wheras Bristol and Brum might be more of a mystery. Better the devil you know and all that ...
Lecter
Bristol i know but apparently birmingham as stated by my friend from the 1st year and also now on the website, the requirement of 5A* and 3A's offical!


What Bristol and Birmingham do is wrong, at least tell applicants your entry requirements.
Reply 8
maze.e
What Bristol and Birmingham do is wrong, at least tell applicants your entry requirements.


Well bristol somewhere on there website have a application specification (grades and other), and its does say mainly A*/A's but i guess applying post alevel with above the grade requirement helps. Birmingham on the otherhand didnt seem to in the last 2 ucas application cycles which does seem unfair but at the open days and general consensus was 5 or even 6A* and 3 A's.
Reply 9
maze.e
What Bristol and Birmingham do is wrong, at least tell applicants your entry requirements.


Why is it? It's a buyers market and med schools are, in effect, buying future doctors. With far more applicants than places, they can do what the hell they want, and apply whatever selection criteria they think will produce the best medics at the other end.

It's always been common knowledge that these schools are especially stringent. Brum do say this in their prospectus (and they do a similar thing with graduates - say 2i but only look at firsts). The key is to do your research. Email admissions of the schools you like tell them what you have to offer and ask if it matches what they look for, and if not see if there is anything you can do to rectify it. Go to open days - that's where you often get info not online or in brochures, etc. To many students do bugger all leg work and expect their 6th form advisors to have all the answers (when often they just make it up or are 10 years out of date!)...

It might be annoying, but that's life...
Reply 10
Fluffy


It might be annoying, but that's life...


lol... yep. And in comparison to MDAP or whatever they're now calling it, UCAS is a breeze