Biomedical Sciences Transfer Medicine at ARU

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Hello, I am starting Biomedical Sciences in September and I want to apply in October to transfer into Medicine. To anyone who went through this process were you able to apply to other medical schools or just ARU's medical school?

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TSR Hippocrates

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__syntaxerror__

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Original post by TwilightSpark

Hello, I am starting Biomedical Sciences in September and I want to apply in October to transfer into Medicine. To anyone who went through this process were you able to apply to other medical schools or just ARU's medical school?

I'm starting biomed in September too, and from what a family friend has told us, they transferred to ARU's medical school after year 1.
https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/medicine/how-to-apply/internal-transfer

(edited 1 year ago)

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TwilightSpark

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I was wondering if on UCAS you can only apply to ARU for Medicine or can you apply to 3 other med schools as well.

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Nix_221

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Original post by __syntaxerror__

I'm starting biomed in September too, and from what a family friend has told us, they transferred to ARU's medical school after year 1.
https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/medicine/how-to-apply/internal-transfer

Hey same !!

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rhodes_island

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What ucat scores are you guys getting?

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yaraalin

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Original post by TwilightSpark

Hello, I am starting Biomedical Sciences in September and I want to apply in October to transfer into Medicine. To anyone who went through this process were you able to apply to other medical schools or just ARU's medical school?

heyy did u end up switching?

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Alaska17

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Original post by TwilightSpark

I was wondering if on UCAS you can only apply to ARU for Medicine or can you apply to 3 other med schools as well.

You can only apply to anglia ruskin as an option

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Alaska17

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I was able to transfer this year but will say that it is quite competitive. After speaking to someone on the biomed course they mentioned alot of the people attending the course only did it for the transfer and there are around 200 people on the course.

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aaro11

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You can actually apply to other uni just have to search those that accept transfers. My friend ended up doing that and is in Manchester uni.

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salwa j 2

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Original post by aaro11

You can actually apply to other uni just have to search those that accept transfers. My friend ended up doing that and is in Manchester uni.

So I can apply to other universities even if I’m at Anglia Ruskin for biomedical science trying to do the transfer?

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GANFYD

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Original post by salwa j 2

So I can apply to other universities even if I’m at Anglia Ruskin for biomedical science trying to do the transfer?

You can apply, but some med schools do not accept applications from those who have started another degree, so it limits where you can apply to, as well as using your grace year of student finance and costing £9250 + maintenance loan in fees

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salwa j 2

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Original post by GANFYD

You can apply, but some med schools do not accept applications from those who have started another degree, so it limits where you can apply to, as well as using your grace year of student finance and costing £9250 + maintenance loan in fees

I’ll be emailing a couple universities to check which accept transfers , but about student loans that’s something I was going to use anyway if I do postgrad so I’m trying to not think too much about it

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salwa j 2

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Original post by GANFYD

You can apply, but some med schools do not accept applications from those who have started another degree, so it limits where you can apply to, as well as using your grace year of student finance and costing £9250 + maintenance loan in fees

Also thank you so much for the reply I’m currently so stressed out about this

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aaro11

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Original post by salwa j 2

Also thank you so much for the reply I’m currently so stressed out about this

Honestly don’t be even if you don’t transfer it’s alright I ended up finishing my degree and now I’m doing med

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salwa j 2

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Original post by aaro11

Honestly don’t be even if you don’t transfer it’s alright I ended up finishing my degree and now I’m doing med

Congratulations!!!

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yaraalin

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Original post by salwa j 2

Congratulations!!!

hey salwa can u check pm

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gada147

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Original post by Alaska17

I was able to transfer this year but will say that it is quite competitive. After speaking to someone on the biomed course they mentioned alot of the people attending the course only did it for the transfer and there are around 200 people on the course.

When they choose people for transfer, do they look at the exact score you got in the UCAT, or only at academic performance at A Level and throughout the course of Biomed? If you got a UCAT score of like 2400 B1 for example, would they care?

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gada147

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Original post by aaro11

You can actually apply to other uni just have to search those that accept transfers. My friend ended up doing that and is in Manchester uni.

Do you know if they still had to get a UCAT of above 2750 if they transferred into Manchester?

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GANFYD

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Original post by gada147

Do you know if they still had to get a UCAT of above 2750 if they transferred into Manchester?

No medicine course accepts a "transfer", as such. Some have a route to apply to medicine set up from specified courses at that uni and they may give preferential interviews to those applicants, or waive admission criteria, eg A level requirements, but it is still a competitive process to do the entirety of medical school. And some med schools will accept applications from those in the first year of another degree, but they would need to meet all the criteria for shortlisting, eg A levels, UCAT score, which, as above, are sometimes lowered/waived in what are known as "transfer routes"

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