URGENT PLEASEEE- does uni ranking matter when applying to postgraduate medicine?

I am struggling to decide whether to pick a lower ranked uni that has guaranteed interview to post grad medicine OR a higher ranked uni that after just a degree and no post graduate whatsoever.

When applying to other post grad unis with biomedical sciences, will it matter (even slightly) which uni the degree was from??

Have you already started your bioscience degree?

It won't matter a bean. Not a jot. What matters is your portfolio: UCAT/BMAT; WEX; statement; grades... where you studied won't even feature.

No I haven’t I’m about to, but holding another offer through clearing and deciding whether or not to switch??

If you haven't started the degree yet, please reject it if you really want to do medicine. This is because GEM is much more expensive, takes long and is much more competitive and quite frankly if you couldn't make it to undergrad medicine, your chances of getting into GEM are very low. This is because you'll be going up against people who have multiple PhDs and years of healthcare experience.

Take a gap year, resit anything you need to and apply again to undergrad medicine as this is the easiest and cheapest way of becoming a doctor.

I’ve already taken a lot of years out tho..

If you haven't started the degree yet, please reject it if you really want to do medicine. This is because GEM is much more expensive, takes long and is much more competitive and quite frankly if you couldn't make it to undergrad medicine, your chances of getting into GEM are very low. This is because you'll be going up against people who have multiple PhDs and years of healthcare experience.

Take a gap year, resit anything you need to and apply again to undergrad medicine as this is the easiest and cheapest way of becoming a doctor.

I’ve already taken a lot of years out, unis generally don’t accept resits for alevels

Unless you are applying for a very competitive course, (or have AL’s completed over more than two sittings), the opposite is generally true. For Biomed, I doubt it would be an issue for most uni’s.

Agree with the above guidance, aiming to get into a GEM programme before you’ve even started your undergrad course is potentially very risky, and will be expensive even if you are successful.

I’ve already taken a lot of years out tho..

If you haven't started the degree yet, please reject it if you really want to do medicine. This is because GEM is much more expensive, takes long and is much more competitive and quite frankly if you couldn't make it to undergrad medicine, your chances of getting into GEM are very low. This is because you'll be going up against people who have multiple PhDs and years of healthcare experience.

Take a gap year, resit anything you need to and apply again to undergrad medicine as this is the easiest and cheapest way of becoming a doctor.

Okay say I do take the year out and apply, where will I get my references from if I can’t get them from my teachers anymore? Because I know references in medicine tend to play a big factor.

Okay say I do take the year out and apply, where will I get my references from if I can’t get them from my teachers anymore? Because I know references in medicine tend to play a big factor.

Have you? What did you get in your A levels and how long ago did you take them?

You can still get your references from your teachers and it’s not as big a factor as you think. Your most important are grades, entrance exams and interview performance scores. A reference is more of a formality because most candidates applying to medicine should have good references

If you insist on doing a degree first and then applying, work with the assumption that you won’t get into graduate entry medicine because that is how competitive it is.

While I agree that GEM entry is very challenging, giving this advice on 14 Sept is essentially telling them to take 2 years out. Better advice may be to consider alternatives to med school after they graduate and factor that into their current decision.

OP - for future reference GEM entry is not post graduate, it's a second undergraduate degree. Postgraduate medicine is something else.