Cambridge med

They make offers on the basis of three A-levels. Note however to be competitive for medicine at Cambridge you realistically need to be doing 3 STEM subjects (i.e. chemistry plus two other science/maths subjects). Those only doing 2 STEM subjects at A-level are vastly less likely to be successful (only about 2% of applicants only have that, and of those 2% only about 2% are actually successful - compared to ~15-20% success rate for those with 3 A-levels).

They make offers on the basis of three A-levels. Note however to be competitive for medicine at Cambridge you realistically need to be doing 3 STEM subjects (i.e. chemistry plus two other science/maths subjects). Those only doing 2 STEM subjects at A-level are vastly less likely to be successful (only about 2% of applicants only have that, and of those 2% only about 2% are actually successful - compared to ~15-20% success rate for those with 3 A-levels).

Anecdotally, I’ve heard of people getting offers for four A-Levels.

Thank you! Do you know what Cambridge look at when deciding who to call for interview? I’ve heard different things and that apparently they call 70% of applicants. What would be the reasons the 30% got rejected then?

They can make a 4 A-level offer to someone taking 4 A-levels but may well simply say a 3 A-level offer, or only require a pass (C) in the fourth subject.
Ultimately medical schools are extremely transparent about their requirements. You don't get "bonus points" for doing more than 3 A-levels because Cambridge are aware not all schools can offer 4 A-levels per student and do not want to get dragged through the mud for discriminating against students whose schools can't offer that - particularly as those schools are also often lower performing schools, in deprived areas, and/or with a low rate of progression to higher education.
It's simply politically not in their favour to secretly prefer students with more A-levels, and they also have little reason to differentiate between students on that basis when they have the admissions tests and interview to assess, particularly as I gather the interviews are very academic/science based and can well test a students academic ability anyway.
My understanding is they aim to interview anyone that could conceivably be made an offer if they were successful at the interview stage. So those taking the correct subjects with the correct predicted grades whose GCSE and admissions test outcomes do not immediately rule them out of contention I would expect.
That said they're known to be very holistic and as far as im aware don't score individual parts of applications in a vacuum and look at the entire 'file' in context (I.e. also considering the school You went to and its performance and how your performance compares to that).
Simply if you have A*A*A predicted in 3 science subjects, didn't abjectly fail your GCSEs, and did well in the UCAT there's no reason not to consider it if otherwise the course appeals and the interview format is one you think you could do well in.
Bear in mind generally Cambridge is rather averagely competitive relative to other medicals, likely due to the higher standard offer and subject requirements causing more people to self select out of applying in the first place.

Agreed because I know lots of people that have already immediately ruled themselves out of Cambridge though they stand a chance of getting in. As for UCAT how high do you think the cut off will be? Is it possible it might be lower than imperial/ UCL/ Leeds as Cambridge interview majority of their applicants?

Cambridge are pretty holistic so I don't think they have a rigid cutoff, they will just look at it compared to everything else. I think if you have a low UCAT and average GCSEs that probably isn't a good picture, but having weaker GCSEs but a stronger UCAT or vice versa might be fine.

Yeah I wasn’t sure if Cambridge actually looked at gcse as most unis don’t look at them much as long as you have like a 6 in lang and maths.