How competitive is midwifery?

My mums an antenatal teacher and midwifery lecturer at UWE and tells me most universities only take on students who are under 30 and straight out of sixth form due to 'ticking the boxes' as they're worried about the younger students not being fully aware of the course, and the high drop out rate. I also realised there was just one girl who was 18 on the swansea course..and my cousin also tells me there was just one girl on the midwife course at keele who was 18...

So, is it that bad?! Or what makes a good applicant stand out?

I want to do it but all these stories of how competitive it is just scares me, so doing the nursing degree and then midwifery top up makes sense..

what? you say that, but then say that there is only one person at keele who is 18...

But wouldn't under 30's be better at learning? And also they can be practicing midwives for longer? And was the 18 thing at the start or end of the year? Because if it's near the end most people will have just turned 19 during the year.

My sister wants to be a midwife, and she was on a college open day recently, and the teacher was saying some of his past students have gotten into doing midwifery with just Applied GCE Health and Social, so that means you don't need tonnes of UCAS points (and plus they would have been 18). I think the main part is just experience to be honest, that's the thing you can talk about in your statement and interview, and it can differentiate you.

Anyway, good luck! Hope that was helpful.

I don't think they can technically do that though, as that's age discrimination.

my friend is doing a nursing & midwifery degree course which she got on through clearing and she is 19. Does that help at all?

you can't do nursing AND midwifery

ok then shes doing midwifery! at a school of nursing & midwifery i do beg its pardon

not really...as i reckon non of those people got an interview or place!!!!!!

really which uni, grades, how old is she, what work experience????

They were past students... surely they must have got a place.

19, loads of nursing home exp & hospitals, dunno about grades, but kings.

thats the problem they probably didn't!!! If you said 'they got places' fair enough..but they COULD have applied but whether they got offers is another thing..

But LozengeC said they had got in to do midwifery... am I missing something here?