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

You'll be ok! Soton has never struck me as a uni who will discount someone for the fact they don't have straight A*'s. As they don't interview they seem to like a really good, insightful p.s.!

what about UCL or imperial?

what about UCL or imperial?

Just from what I know and have heard, I'd think unless you got something like AABB/AAAB/AAAA at AS and 20 on the BMAT, I'd guess Imperial will be a challenge. However, UCL seems to be quite fair when it comes to GCSE's and a BMAT of something like 17 along with BBBB at AS level (I think that's what I've heard a UCL student say is acceptable for UCL) should be you in good stead. But you never know, you could get interviews from both. As long as your gonna be happy at any of the uni's your applying to, you won't go far wrong

I got ABBC, admittedly I was ill during my chem exam so the C should have been an A! I think those AS results will be fine. If your predicted AAB, have you got another choice in mind to replace Imperial? (I'd have thought your school would predict you AAA if you achieved those AS's!!) If your AS results are good let your referee put your AS grades down, it won't harm!

Good AS's probably start about ABBB/AABB! I applied to Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle and Dundee. Only got an offer from Leicester due to my slightly dodgy grades but I'm hopefully starting at Leicester in September. My A2 predictions were AAA, I got 1A*, 3A's, 5B's and 2C's at GCSE. I did a week in surgery, a week in ortho rehab, 2 weeks at GP and had 8 months hospital voluntary work.

Applying the year after would have an advantage in terms of experience and maturity but I feel being out of education that long, it would be more of a disadvantage in the long run for someone as lazy as me. And yes I am very lazy XD and I know that'll have to change if I get a place at a MedSchool of my choice!

iv got 3A*s, 1A, 5B's and 3C's

and im gonna strugle to get into a medical school of my choice

Yeah, the thing I'm most scared of is rejection for failure...which will be the first time I've ever "failed" anything. I've never failed an exam or anything so it's kinda scary knowing that four rejections are possible...

if I do go through Ucas Clearing, I'd want to do something like chemistry or biomed sciences, and then going into medicine through a graduate entry programme.

but my school dont cash the AS grades in if im continuing the course, so is there any point in getting my refferee to put AS grades = BBB or ABB or whatever??

this is an avarage i would say. getting a B or a C is not the end of the world. i had a B in English Lang at GCSE and got into everywhere apart from Oxford. universities believe that some people are late developers .

if you are applying for a subject like medicine, you got to prepare yourself for receiving at least one rejection. it doesnt mean you are not good enough or that medicine isnt for you, it just comes to show the level of competition.

my school doesn't cash in if you are resitting (cant remember the exact term for cancelling your grades if you are re-taking) and when i saw my reference, the referee had put all my AS results before saying anything else about me!

well my referee said that it was up to me whether she put my as results in the refference!!

Note that UCL require that, in your reference, as well as A2 predictions, you must have either AS levels already achieved or AS predictions.

Well I think he meant average for a Medicine applicant. And it is true I guess that the 'average' medical applicant won't get in but there is SO much more than just your GCSE grades. There are far more areas of your application which you can shine in which will put you in a very strong position, Medicine can be a lottery sometimes...who know's, you might get 4 offers! Things like, AS and A2 predictions, Work Experience, Personal skills/attributes, Passion/Drive for Medicine, Aptitude tests. Keep your head down, work hard and hopefully you'll get an offer or several!



At the end of the day though even the people who get 4 offers only get to choose one, that's all you need, one offer.

Cheers,

--Dave

crappy... in that case can i put both??

like BBBC with AAAB predictions

and then like AAA A2 predictions?

really my referee told me that with previous applicants, they just stated that AS results are not cashed in!!

The reference on the UCAS application must list both the A-level and the additional AS-level grade predictions in order for the candidate to be considered further.

UCL (and indeed the other London med schools) have really tightened their entry criteria recently.


So your referee could put your A2 predictions of AAA, plus your AS level predictions (because you are resitting your AS levels, you haven't cashed them in, so you can't put the grades you got) of AAAB.