BM4 offer holder here! Just wondering how old you all are and what you were doing before medicine? I think it’s super cool us BM4 people get a chance to meet such a diverse range of individuals!

Reply 50

tahmidsyed1212

Original post by bfm.mcdermott

Have either of you asked Southampton how many weeks the course is? How many weeks were in the accommodation contracts you applied for?

Hi sorry for the late reply. I had similar questions when applying for accommodation and found this document with key dates for 2020/2021. it shows that the 38 week contract for the most accommodation halls start and end on the same day as the course starts and ends ( 19/09/20 - 12/06/21 ). I think 38 week contracts are the shortest for the uni halls.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc/uos-term-dates-2017-to-2027.pdf
^ heres the link for term dates :smile:

Reply 51

username2345291

Original post by tahmidsyed1212

PRSOM. Thank you! :smile:

Reply 52

Sian_De’Rélla

Original post by ajaaaaaa~

Hiiii, offer for BM6 :tongue:

Sameeee

Reply 53

Quincytellem

Original post by physiomedic

Hi everyone, I’m a current student and received an email today saying that they are planning on cancelling all offer holder days due to the coronavirus

Was looking forward to that 😫

Reply 54

aff123

BM4 offer holder here!

Reply 55

a2019

Hey guys. Might be a bit early to say but considering the government has cancelled exams for this year and a lot of med schools are postponing or cancelling exams, does anyone think it’s possible they could defer our offers for the following year?

Reply 56

HandsUp

Original post by a2019

Who knows. But that would mean a whole year of no doctors and then double the year after.

Maybe they will take everyone. I mean they are going to need doctors. Maybe they just double up rooms etc.

Reply 57

a2019

Original post by HandsUp

Who knows. But that would mean a whole year of no doctors and then double the year after.

Maybe they will take everyone. I mean they are going to need doctors. Maybe they just double up rooms etc.

Yeah true. Or they could make us start a bit later.. only time will tell! 🤞🏼

Reply 58

tahmidsyed1212

Original post by a2019

Original post by HandsUp

Who knows. But that would mean a whole year of no doctors and then double the year after.

Maybe they will take everyone. I mean they are going to need doctors. Maybe they just double up rooms etc.

I don't think they'll just defer all offers because its pretty unlikely the university will just not have any intakes and essentially no first years and also the fact that you'll have a whole nations worth of 17-18-19 year olds on a gap year. I don't think they'll just accept everyone especially not for medicine where I believe there are strict GMC guidelines. Maybe the GMC waive their rules but seems unlikely. I think the way things are going either we sit our exams late and uni starts later or we get predicted grades and the uni might rescind offers (maybe based on interview performance or UCAS points etc.) I think whatever the solution will be some people will be screwed by circumstances.