rejecting and reapplying opinions?

hi. i’m currently in year 13 and i’ve received offers for medicine. unfortunately, i really wanted to have the student life in london but i couldn’t apply to those universities as i did
not meet the entry requirements. altho i’ve got an offer for medicine at a diff uni, i’m still feeling really upset about not having my student life in london. should i consider rejecting my medicine offer and reapplying with a stronger application to the universities i originally wanted to apply to?

i understand that every medicine degree holds the same value no matter what uni u graduate from, but it’s more so i feel like i’ve lost my dream of studying in london. and i didn’t even get the chance to apply.

What's the appeal of studying in London? Did you attend open days at any of the London unis, to see what they're like in reality?
Are any of your offers from unis in big cities? Or are they all campus-based out-of-town unis?

hi. i’m currently in year 13 and i’ve received offers for medicine. unfortunately, i really wanted to have the student life in london but i couldn’t apply to those universities as i did
not meet the entry requirements. altho i’ve got an offer for medicine at a diff uni, i’m still feeling really upset about not having my student life in london. should i consider rejecting my medicine offer and reapplying with a stronger application to the universities i originally wanted to apply to?
i understand that every medicine degree holds the same value no matter what uni u graduate from, but it’s more so i feel like i’ve lost my dream of studying in london. and i didn’t even get the chance to apply.

Hi . What was your gcse grades and a level grades and what university were you interest and will soon attend?

i am from london, so i definitely preferred to spend my university years closer to home considering medicine is a long course (and also that in my foundation years i would likely have to move away anyway as its a randomised process). i also just love the massive city atmosphere and having a busy bustling city around where i choose to stay. i did go to some of the london uni open days and i genuinely loved the courses and the student atmosphere too. the offer i have received is from manchester which is a pretty big city too, thus my sort of dilemma.

Well, that's a shame. I was hoping you'd just fictionalised an idea of what London, and the large London unis, would be like and so weren't speaking from an uninformed viewpoint. So that fact that you are from London, and enjoyed the unis on open days, really doesn't help.
It's not clear from your posts whether your plan is to outperform your predicted grades or to resit your A levels in order to improved your grades. If it's the latter, then please be aware of the following from the Medicine web pages of the various London universities you've mentioned above:
• UCL: "This programme does not accept resits. A resit is a second or subsequent attempt to improve a qualification outcome, for which you already hold an award." (source)
• King's: "In a standard admissions cycle, we are able to consider applicants who have retaken their qualifications, however, you should bear in mind that your application for this programme will be reviewed alongside other strong applicants who might be viewed more favourably if they achieved the required grades within a standard timeframe, for example, a two year period for A-levels." (source)
• Imperial: "We will not accept resit qualifications. If you believe mitigating circumstances have affected your exam results, we recommend that you get in touch with your school or exam board." (source)
If, however, you were hoping to exceed your predictions and then apply with those grades for 2026 entry, then you don't need to make that decision now. If you exceed your predicteds (and therefore have a place at Manchester confirmed) then you can decline the place at that point, and then simply re-apply in the next cycle. Note that I'm not recommending this approach - I'm just pointing our that this isn't a decision you'll have to make for another five months or so.

yes my aim is to simply exceed my predicteds. i am not resitting, but doing my alevels this year. if i did go through with reapplying, would i be at a disadvantage considering i rejected medical schools to reapply? as in would the university be more likely to reject me because i did this? or is it still an even playing field where they will simply look at my credentials (alevels, ucat score, PS) and then decide whether to call me for interview.

i just don’t want to take the risk if i know for a fact they will reject me because i rejected other medical schools in the previous cycle.

They won't know you rejected other medical schools in the precious cycle. When you apply via UCAS only the universities to which you apply know that you've applied. However, if you applied to Manchester again (as a backup, perhaps), then they would know that they'd offered you a place previously which you declined. Whether or that this would impact their decision to make an offer again isn't clear. But the London uni's wouldn't know.

okay so universities are not informed about previous ucas cycle information unless i’m reapplying to the same university again?

Correct. (Well, technically they're not "informed" even if you reapply to the same university again - they just know as you applied there.)