Urgent- (Liverpool/Soton) Help choosing medical school! (Advice appreciated!)

Presumably she had a reason for choosing Liverpool over Soton in the first place?

As medical schools go, there's no clear advantage in graduating from one over the other. Personally I hated Liverpool when I visited but these things are rather subjective.

Thank you for your reply & would appreciate any more replies so I can get back to my friend. Soton seems to be the clear popular choice atm. Thank you!

If your friend is going to base her decision on the views of a couple of people on an internet forum she is better going to Southampton to be honest - she clearly isn't of Liverpool calibre.

If your friend is going to base her decision on the views of a couple of people on an internet forum she is better going to Southampton to be honest - she clearly isn't of Liverpool calibre.

Well it's just that s/he has already had a look through all the uni brochures and websites, so I thought I'd help by asking the opinion of some med students. -Sometimes it's the students that know little facts/ characteristics of the med schools that can have a large impact! That they are on an internet forum cannot be helped! I don't know any Soton/ Liverpool med students personally!

In addition- does anyone know anything about the practical years of medical school in each of the unis? How many hospitals does Soton/ Liverpool work in conjunction with/ how far away are they from campus etc?

I went to a Liverpool Medical Institution lecture at Christmas, and really like it until i realised that despite my 12 A*'s at GCSE, and expect AAAA at A2 (Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Further Maths) they wouldn't except me due to having Further Maths - something they don't list in their prospectus.

I'd go Southampton just on that principle!

AFAIK, both can be quite a trek and it certainly shouldn't affect the decision.

For clinicals in Southampton, you can be sent to, well, Southampton, Portsmouth, Gosport, Chichester, Winchester, Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester, Guildford, Wexham, Frimley, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Crawley... probably missed some, but I don't see why this matters.

In the early years they tend to keep you close, like in So'ton itself.

For crying out loud though, Southampton is clearly the better choice.

Actually, pretty much every medical school states that they count Maths and Further Maths as one subject - and Biology and Human Biology as one, etc...

If you have 4 A2s though it shouldn't matter, as even if they both count as 1, you still have 3 and 3 is all you need.

Nah, Liverpool, Cardiff and Edinburgh have said they won't accept me cos my fourth As equivalent is 'Further Maths', and not something completely unrelated like History, French etc...

I've spoken to Cambridge about this who think it's a completely ridiculous attitude to have towards possible the hardest A level.

These are only for final year.

For third year you will either be in Southampton, Winchester or Portsmouth. And the same for fourth year (and you only have about 8 weeks of attachments in 4th year).

I have nothing against liverpool (apart from its far from my granny's house) but if it is about money then you have to balance the more expensive cost of living down south with the fact that you get an extra qualification in Southampton for the same amount of time.

I wanted to apply to liverpool when I was younger, but that was when I didn't understand what PBL was and just wanted to get as far away from London as I could

Ah ok, I see. I was referring to the massive map we got given on the visit day, where they also falsely told us we'd get a BSc with honours opposed to a BMedSci

You were a wannabe Liverpudlian at some point?? No way!!