Cardiff A100 / A101 2022 Offer Holders

They talk about it in a letter they send in an email confirming your offer, its a paragraph talking about oversubscription.

This is what i wanted to ask about😭

Hi, could you let me know a little more about the placements please? I absolutely love Cardiff but notice that there are 3 x 8 week block placements in years 3, 4 and 5. Would you still be based in Cardiff for these and have to travel back and forth each day…or would it mean moving to a rural area for each 8 week placement? Thanks v much!

Do a lot of students live in accommodation organised by other companies (Unite students for example) or do most people go for the university accommodation? The unite accommodation seems to be cheaper and looks nicer and more modern - is there any catch at all as it seems too good to be true!

which halls of residence would you say is best for a medical student? which is closest etc?

Hi! I believe that Talybont Campus is the most popular with first year medics as it is the closest to the medical school

Hi! We are very lucky here at Cardiff to be able to have early clinical exposure! In first and second year, you will have placement one day a week during case weeks. You will be placed in and around Cardiff for these placements. The university provides buses for placement days if you do not drive or have a car. As you rightly said, in year 3, 4, 5 you will start your clinical training and will have three 8 week placements each year. Cardiff is an all Wales course and so you could be placed in and around Cardiff or placed on an ‘away’ placement in North or West Wales. If you are on an away placement, you will be provided with free accommodation near the hospital and you will be living with other medics. I went to North wales for my 8 week Oncology and Surgery block last year and again on my 4 week Psych block this year. I really enjoyed these placements as I got to meet new medics and see more of Wales! Also, the teaching we received by the doctors was at a very high standard- I hope that helps!

what accomodation are people thinking of picking?

hey, Cardiff talks about taking away offers from offer holders if there over subscribed the anxiety never ends

really don’t think it’s fair for you to scare people in this way. if you read the paragraph, nowhere do they say they’ll take the offer away from you. It states what will happen in the case of oversubscription, and you’ll either be deferred onto next year’s course or provided with an alternative course. Very unlikely they’d give you an offer then magically take it away because they signed too many people onto the course lmao, plus it’s unlikely inflation of grades will occur to the extent it did last year because we’re doing exams

Asking to defer ok, but you really think that "providing an alternative course" after an offer for medicine is fair!?

Of course it’s not fair, but the initial message was a bit too forward to state that ‘offers may just get taken away’. Plus oversubscription has only really become a real issue in the last two years because of disruption to exams, so there’s no real need to worry everybody about it .

Do you know if we have a deadline we must reply to before they have to defer/give an alternative offer? I feel like the email is a bit vague and people are saying different things about the consequences of over subscription and its making me nervous about how long I have to reply because I’m still waiting to hear back from other unis before making a final decision

You’ve still got time!! It’s referring to results day and how many people meet their offers, not oversubscription of the offers themselves. As students, we have till 9th June to make our decisions, so wait to hear back from your other universities first ☺️☺️

has anyone got the virtual offer holder day email?