Medicine 2009 Entry Choices - Update/Repost with AS/A2 and Final Choices!

[Year of Entry]
2009

[1st Institution]
Imperial

[2nd Institution]
King's College London

[3rd Institution]
Barts

[4th Institution]
St. Georges

[GCSE Reults]
4A*s, 6As and a B

[AS Results]
AAAB (A) Summer 09

[A2 Results]
AAA Summer 06 (A) Summer 09

[Work Experience]
5 weeks full time at Victoria Hospital on Haem/Spec unit reception and lab assistant.
1 week morgue
4 weeks GP sugery
4 months full time at VLA as post-mortem typist
2 months full time Clinical Governance
Volunteer at palliative care unit

[UKCAT]
655

[BMAT]
TBC

[Any other comments]
Hello, ny name's _____ and I'm a Trackophile.

At the Edinburgh Open day, for the Medicine lecture, there were statistics shown on what percentage of people accepted. The figures are roughly as follows:

45% English
40% Scottish
5% Irish
10% oversea

The admission officer also went on to say that, there is 45% English accepted because 45% of the applicants were English and 40% Scottish because 40% of the applicants were Scottish and that it is all in proportion, not because of discrimination against whether Scottish or not Scottish.

And, the stats shown in your school, ONE school, do not reflect the stats for the whole country. There are such things called anomalies. There could be many reasons why oxbridge acceptance rates are higher. Such as the emphasis on personal statements, emphasis on UKCAT etc. Futhermore, Edinburgh is regarded on par in terms of ranking with Oxbridge (for Medicine anyways) so therefore comparing the rates of oxbridge to edinburgh is like splitting Oxford and Cambridge apart and comparing the acceptance rates (from your school) of those individual Uni's and saying one favours xx compared to another.

your facts are based on assumptions though, not hard evidence. i am at this university and in the first two days here i met about 30 english people and 4 scots...that kind of proves that the uni isnt as anti-english as you seem to think it is.

also, my point about the two people i know is that 100% of the people i knew before uni who applied to edinburgh got an offer because they were very good candidates and wrote personal statements which were very good and so they got through the selection process

i may be deffensive but i have seen so many people on TSR say that edinburgh is anti-english and throw that slander around when it is untrue, they are just bitter about being rejected

ive still not sent off my application, has anyone else not done this? think i am doing it tomorrow..

ive still not sent off my application, has anyone else not done this? think i am doing it tomorrow..

i'm pulling a complete Mena atm...cannot decide on my choices. had to take edinburgh out as my previous selection was way too risky. leeds in. still need help on the last choice...birmingham is a possibility. looking for a uni which looks at the ukcat in conjunction with the rest of the application and not PBL (and preferably not in londres).

I never said Edinburgh was anti-English, indeed, as the two people you know have demonstrated very well, if you're good enough you will get in, Scot or English. However, I'm merely pointing out that whilst English people are not disadvantaged, Scots have the edge.

Hey are you doing graduate entry?

No, normal avenue. How about yourself?

Oh, wow you have a lot of work experience I'm going for Undergrad entry as well.

scots do not have an edge, we are all equal. end of

Haha, this isn't going anywhere, so we'll have to agree to disagree

Edinburgh have statistics that show roughly 55% of applicants and current students are English, while 40% are Scottish.

So, there are more English students than Scottish students applying to Edinburgh and more currently there. It is fair.

Read my post before where I already responded to that question...

Plus this debate isn't getting anywhere like I said. So we should all drop it.

Or maybe Oxbridge like English students more than Scottish students and that's why your school's stats are like that.

You can't say Edinburgh prefer Scottish students when their applicant:student ratio for English students is the same as for Scots.