Cambridge Medicine Students and Applicants

If you get a first in 1st and 2nd year you should get in automatically; otherwise it's on the basis of an interview (which is much more like a standard medical school interview than the very science-based ones Cambridge often have for entry to the pre-clinical part of the course).

I see, thanks! Do you know which parts of the UK are the hospitals they send you to located in, apart from Addenbrooke's?

East Anglia - Huntingdon, Bedford, Bury St. Edmund's, Ipswich, Peterborough and King's Lynn are the main ones. For some placements, Stevenage and Luton are also used, and for paediatrics, Whipp's Cross. You are given accommodation for free at the hospitals though, so you don't have to commute (though Huntingdon is commutable even on public transport, Bedford and Bury you can maybe commute if you have a car).

There's a long list of all applicants somewhere in the first few pages on this forum. I got accepted and my results are in my sig (not as amazing as some peoples ) I'll try to have a look for this thread

Thanks. What college are you at now?

And for medicine, among Downing, Emmanuel, Christ's or Trinity, which of them would be more advisable for international medics? Is having a large number of medics, good?

Trinity.

Er, well Trinity has lots of international students in general but there are probably international medics from all the colleges...
I'm not really sure how the numbers of medics at different colleges affects things... there were 14 of us (including one vet) in my year at Trinity, though the number is usually 12, and we all got on together as a group so that was quite nice... I guess if you have more people there might be a more active medical society + there are more people who could become your friends, but you don't get to know everyone in your medic year as well.

3 A*s at GCSE is below the average, but you still have a chance providing your BMAT, AS results and PS are above average.

I will be re-sitting everything under an A, and I hope to get at least an A in everything. Providing I did, along with high AS/A2 results, and a high BMAT score, would it be a possibility?

I will be re-sitting everything under an A, and I hope to get at least an A in everything. Providing I did, along with high AS/A2 results, and a high BMAT score, would it be a possibility?

I have:

A* in Physics
A* in Biology (Full Marks)
A* in Chemistry
A in History
B in Maths (I plan on re-sitting)
B in Geography (I plan on re-sitting if coursework does not get me to an A or above)
C in English Lit (I plan on re-sitting)

I will be re-sitting everything under an A and hopefully get A and A* in all of them, but if I got a B or C in somethings such as Welsh, or RE, would I stand a chance?

What do you think? Do I stand a chance? I plan on taking Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Physics at A-Level. If I got A or above would I get in with my current GCSE results and a good BMAT score?

I don't think you're allowed to resit GCSEs for medicine, or if you are, you can probably expect to be at a disadvantage

I'm not sure that you can get into such a competitive course with just 7 GCSEs, no matter how good your A-Level results are. I thought I was looking at a list of A-Level results orginally (you didn't specify until the end of the post), and even then I was thinking it would be better to push up the Maths and English Literature grades anyway.

The application is, I believe, mostly based on Sixth Form results, but you definitely want more than 7 GCSEs, even if a couple of them will be B's. The rarity of applicants who do so few GCSEs means that, for instance, someone with 7 A*'s will probably not be valued as highly as someone with 4 A*'s, 3 A's and 3 B's, simply because the officers just aren't used to seeing people with so few GCSE subjects. :P

I will be doing more GCSE's. These are just my first year results. I still have Additional Science, RE, Welsh, English Language, and some more modules.

That's sounding more like it. Convert your current 7 to all A*'s or A's, and try to get A*'s or A's in all of these above as well. If you get 1 B, or even 2, it doesn't really matter, especially if you've got 6 A*'s and 3 A's (for example) for the other subjects. You won't be that much worse than the average person who actually gets in, I think. And since you haven't yet finished GCSEs, who knows? You could end up with 9+ A*'s.