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Pre-interview panic

Just go rejected from Manchester and still waiting for kcl, Notts and Leicester- I was rlly hoping for a small chance of a kcl interview and starting to realise that’s probs not happening - any advice/ reality checks yall could give me? Got a 2030 B1 A*A*A and 99999999888 stats: I’m hoping for a Leicester/ Notts interviews, do yall think it’s possible 😭.

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by icy-starship
Just go rejected from Manchester and still waiting for kcl, Notts and Leicester- I was rlly hoping for a small chance of a kcl interview and starting to realise that’s probs not happening - any advice/ reality checks yall could give me? Got a 2030 B1 A*A*A and 99999999888 stats: I’m hoping for a Leicester/ Notts interviews, do yall think it’s possible 😭.


someone on the leicester medicine forum said they got an interview with a score of 71, and with your gcses and ucat your score looks much higher than that. hopefully that means youll get an interview :smile:

Reply 3

Thank you 🙏

Reply 4

I've seen people with similar stats but much lower ucat get on offer for interview this year, I can't advise for Notts or KCL tho

Reply 5

Update: got Leicester and Notts interviews

Reply 6

When did you get your notts interview? I've got an interview from leicester as well
(edited 1 month ago)

Reply 7

What was your score out of 82?

Reply 8

I got mine on the 27th of nov

Reply 9

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by AlizaT148
What was your score out of 82?
For the Notts points I got 70/82

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