Scientist Training Programme (STP) Applicants 2025

Well, let's esaminate the worst scenario:
At the first available interview they are going to call the first three candidates in line (1st, 2nd, 3rd). If the place is offered and accepted straight away (to anyone of those candidates), at the second interview only three of the first four candidates will be available. Let's say the 2nd has been offered a place (and that they also accepted), then at the second interview there will be the 1st, the 3rd and the 4th candidate... And so on for every next available interview.
In this case, that doesn't take in consideration the candidates preferred areas, if there are N places available and they interview M people each, only the first N+M-1 candidates would be interviewed.
This is the lower bound in the worst scenario. Keep this in mind and don't boil your brain anymore.

What's going on with Genomics posts?? They were 18 then 17 literally just earlier today and now 16!! It looks like Salisbury post is now gone which was going to be my first choice. 😕

They might have filled posts with in-service candidates

Is it definitely 2 interviews per post or 3 interviews per post. For example is it likely that it could be a bit in between and they add a few more on? Like cardiac science, somewhere between 2 per post (80) and (120)? Trying to work out where the cut off is and how likely I am to get an interview?

In-service applicants apply through a different route. What's most likely happened is they had to reduce the number of posts for funding or training availability reasons

Ranked 88 for cardiac science. Does anyone know if I should be hopeful?

Cardiac science has 40 posts, right? If you are shortlisted (reserved), I would say you could be getting a chance for an interview

Shortlist reserve rank 16 for 9 posts ?? Make that make sense

what speciality is that for? i wonder if it’s different for different ones

Apply some critical thinking to the numbers being shortlisted and shortlist reserve guys. There can’t be a universal cut off for every specialism because what if they have 3 candidates who aren’t separable at this stage? Say they have the same scores across SJT and from longlisting, then what would they do? I also think that the proportion they choose to keep in reserve will vary based on the number of posts available and potentially on how much they think they’ll struggle to fill the places. It’s a complex process with a lot of variables, it is not one size fits all.
I can only imaging it mirrors things like grade boundary allocations for exams like GCSEs and A-Levels. It needs fine tuning every year because the distributions are never quite the same and can’t be exactly predicted. It sucks that we don’t know how it works, but getting obsessive about exactly what your number means won’t help at this stage.
If you have an interview or are on the reserve list just prep as much as you reasonably can. Rankings will be new after interviews, good luck everyone.

So the ranking number changes after the interview ?

anyone applying for genomic counselling ranked lower than 57? 😂 really not making sense this application process

its 13 now 😕