Hello all!
And we're off!
We have received your applications. Almost all applicants will now have received an acknowledgement email from me. (If you have not, this does not necessarily mean that we have not received your application. Our system will not let me send emails to you if you have either declared a criminal conviction, have not declared that you do not have a criminal conviction, or if you are <17 years old. You do not need to take any action regarding this).
For A101 applicants, my acknowledgement email will have included our Widening Participation form. If you have already sent a completed copy of this form in to the medical school, you do not need to do so again - my team will append it to your application in due course. For some A101 applicants we will be in touch to find out more information about your degree (to see if it has sufficient anatomy and physiology).
What happens now? Myself and the team will now be scrutinising the applications to see whether they meet our minimum academic entry criteria or not. This process will take us 2-3 weeks. We then receive your UKCAT scores from the UKCAT consortium. For applicants who meet the minimum academic entry criteria we then look to see whether they meet our minimum UKCAT requirement or not. UKCAT ranking then takes place if needed. I do not know yet whether we will need to rank A101 applicants. If it is needed, when this has been done we will post the cut point from ranking on our webpages. We then invite those who have made it to the interview stage to interview. Those not invited (either because they did not meet the academic and/or UKCAT requirements or because they did not survive the ranking process) will hear from us later.
We are currently on schedule and I expect that we will keep to the schedule set out on our admissions webpages.
Best wishes and good luck
Julian
Director of Undergraduate Medical Admissions