What do you think are the top 5 most competitive courses at the Imperial?

I don't think this is necessarily true. A much better measure would be an applicants to offers ratio. The aim is to get an offer, not necessarily a place as people may decide to go to another university.

Computing (800 applicants, ~250 offers) would be around 3:1 and if the numbers that I've heard (2000 applicants, ~800 offers) for Mathematics are right, it would be somewhere in the region of 2.5:1, thus proving that computing is more competitive than mathematics.

Where are you getting those figures?

The 250 for computing is an educated guess as we figured out they give somewhere in the region of 200 to 300 offers. They say they interview around 1/3 of applicants which would be close to 300. Even if it's less than 250, it becomes a more competitive course.

The 800 for Mathematics I found in the applications thread, someone had asked a tutor.

How did you figure that out? I'm on the course and I haven't heard those figures anywhere other than other TSR people.

I don't know why I posted it... Just a few posts after someone claimed, AGAIN, that physics is competitive.

Leave it to medics to think they are amazing geniuses and think that their subject is the hardest to get into...
Medicine IMO is probably one of the safest subjects to get into. My reasoning is as follows:
It doesn't really matter which uni you study medicine in when applying for jobs.
You get 4 choices, and assuming that the application - admission ratio is simmilar for most medic universities, thats 4 / 7.2 chance of getting into a competent course.

For other career tracks, like law or econ, if you aren't oxbridge etc, then you don't really have a shot at the best jobs. Doesn't apply to medicine...

I don't know why I posted it... Just a few posts after someone claimed, AGAIN, that physics is competitive.

Leave it to medics to think they are amazing geniuses and think that their subject is the hardest to get into...
Medicine IMO is probably one of the safest subjects to get into. My reasoning is as follows:
It doesn't really matter which uni you study medicine in when applying for jobs.
You get 4 choices, and assuming that the application - admission ratio is simmilar for most medic universities, thats 4 / 7.2 chance of getting into a competent course.

For other career tracks, like law or econ, if you aren't oxbridge etc, then you don't really have a shot at the best jobs. Doesn't apply to medicine...

Ashy are you on the arts & ents board?