Need help with what to do abt medicine application

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Hi, so basically I've just sat maths paper 3 and honestly maths overall did not go as well as I thought it would. I do 3 alevels maths chemistry and economics. These are obvs a weird combo if I want to do med I'm aware but applying for med wasn't really a solid option for me when picking alevels but over the summer of 2023 due to a few circumstances, I decided medicine definately was something I had to apply for. So I have one more chemistry exam to do tomorrow which I'm not nervous for bc paper 1 and 2 went really well. And I've already finished economics which also I think went quite well. But for maths I'm certain I did not get an A. Because I don't do bio, already med school options are limited for me and resitting maths also isn't an option bc there's only like 1 med school that accepts resits and doesn't ask for bio. There are 3 med schools which I can get a contextual offer in, eg newcastle bristol and Angela ruskin. But overall I just would really appreciate ANYONES advice on what I should do. Like if I don't get the grades do I apply for the 3 w contextual offer and 2 other courses, or do I do post graduate etc.
Also if I was to apply for half med and the other half not med, do I need to write 2 personal statements ?
Sorry I rambled on so much and thanks a lot for reading through, again any advice would he really appreciated <3333

Reply 1

AspiringSurvivor

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Original post by fatoosh

Hi, so basically I've just sat maths paper 3 and honestly maths overall did not go as well as I thought it would. I do 3 alevels maths chemistry and economics. These are obvs a weird combo if I want to do med I'm aware but applying for med wasn't really a solid option for me when picking alevels but over the summer of 2023 due to a few circumstances, I decided medicine definately was something I had to apply for. So I have one more chemistry exam to do tomorrow which I'm not nervous for bc paper 1 and 2 went really well. And I've already finished economics which also I think went quite well. But for maths I'm certain I did not get an A. Because I don't do bio, already med school options are limited for me and resitting maths also isn't an option bc there's only like 1 med school that accepts resits and doesn't ask for bio. There are 3 med schools which I can get a contextual offer in, eg newcastle bristol and Angela ruskin. But overall I just would really appreciate ANYONES advice on what I should do. Like if I don't get the grades do I apply for the 3 w contextual offer and 2 other courses, or do I do post graduate etc.
Also if I was to apply for half med and the other half not med, do I need to write 2 personal statements ?
Sorry I rambled on so much and thanks a lot for reading through, again any advice would he really appreciated <3333

I have always always heard to not take the latter route, graduate entry, its extremely competitive ie 3.5 applicants per one seat for undergraduate medicine and 7 applicants per one seat in graduate.

About the personal statements, you can only have add personal statement on UCAS which means the other courses you will apply for will also get the same medicine personal statement so you may be under advantaged for those courses

But clearing is always an option, it is really competitive but usually med schools lower the grade boundaries as they want to get their places full

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GANFYD

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Original post by fatoosh

Hi, so basically I've just sat maths paper 3 and honestly maths overall did not go as well as I thought it would. I do 3 alevels maths chemistry and economics. These are obvs a weird combo if I want to do med I'm aware but applying for med wasn't really a solid option for me when picking alevels but over the summer of 2023 due to a few circumstances, I decided medicine definately was something I had to apply for. So I have one more chemistry exam to do tomorrow which I'm not nervous for bc paper 1 and 2 went really well. And I've already finished economics which also I think went quite well. But for maths I'm certain I did not get an A. Because I don't do bio, already med school options are limited for me and resitting maths also isn't an option bc there's only like 1 med school that accepts resits and doesn't ask for bio. There are 3 med schools which I can get a contextual offer in, eg newcastle bristol and Angela ruskin. But overall I just would really appreciate ANYONES advice on what I should do. Like if I don't get the grades do I apply for the 3 w contextual offer and 2 other courses, or do I do post graduate etc.
Also if I was to apply for half med and the other half not med, do I need to write 2 personal statements ?
Sorry I rambled on so much and thanks a lot for reading through, again any advice would he really appreciated <3333

There are about 7 med schools that accept resits and do not need biology.
If you can get AAA+ at A level, even with resits, don't apply for GEM
And it you have to resit maths, and want more options, you could look at sitting biology in your gap year, too

(edited 1 year ago)

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ARUStudents

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Hello,

How did your results go? Are you still looking for any advice for medical school?

I am a third year medical student at ARU and happy to share any information that could be useful. 🙂

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