2011 Entry- Hopeful Medic Thread :)

You're more or less garunteed an interview at kings...they took on nearly everyone with more than 9A*s this year regardless of UKCAT for interview..

If academics were below this then they weighted the UKCAT more for the applicants..

What extra-curricular do all of you people have?

Would Physiology or Anatomy be an appropriate 5th choice?

woo my first post yay lol

ok well i got 7A* 1A 2Bs and 1C at gcse (C is in short course ict but i got a* in full course lol weird)

done 4 work experience placements at hospitals
volunteering at nursing home, for NAS in a ''buddying'' project, and doing Duke of Ed. and young enterprise.

in regards to wat to put for 5th choice.. i'm planning to leave it blank (or dentistry just for jokes) bcoz its better to take gap year instead of doing graduate entry (more applicants per place if i remember correctly).

wat about u guys?

btw anyone frm manchester

GOOD LUCK TO U ALL

woo my first post yay lol

ok well i got 7A* 1A 2Bs and 1C at gcse (C is in short course ict but i got a* in full course lol weird)

done 4 work experience placements at hospitals
volunteering at nursing home, for NAS in a ''buddying'' project, and doing Duke of Ed. and young enterprise.

in regards to wat to put for 5th choice.. i'm planning to leave it blank (or dentistry just for jokes) bcoz its better to take gap year instead of doing graduate entry (more applicants per place if i remember correctly).

wat about u guys?

btw anyone frm manchester

GOOD LUCK TO U ALL

Hi
Thank you, good luck to you too.
Your work experience sounds good, what are you studying at AS?
I'm not sure about a 5th choice, maybe the standard biomed or perhaps biochem or straight biology.
You can only apply to 4 med/vet med/dentistry courses so you couldn't put dentistry as a joke
It depends on your grades whether it's better or not, if I was to get AAA/AAB, I'd take a gap year and reapply, but if it was lower I'd perhaps try grad entry.
I live near Liverpool, so quite close to Manchester!

Good luck but dentistry isn't exactly something you'd put down for "jokes." It's bloody competitive too. You're profile sounds good though. Keep up the work.

I'm looking at Cambridge, Imperial, Kings and Birmingham. The first one's rather hit and miss though...although I think I have a better chance at the other's depending on admissions tests of course and other factors.

You?

Hey thanks.
Studying Bio, Chem, Double Maths and Psychology wbu? I won't take further maths tho.. i'm not into maths that much
i was only joking about dentistry anyway. I hate it. I did 1 week work experience there hated it lol. Don't want to be put out of a job by a toothbrush

wow, you're applying to every uni that i'm thinking of applying to. oh the competition is on :mfing:

wow, you're applying to every uni that i'm thinking of applying to. oh the competition is on :mfing:

Aha, I'm definitely applying to Birmingham, probably King's and perhaps Imperial if I take the BMAT!
The competition is definitely on, and we even have the same GCSEs

What competition? I'm going to run alllllll over you.

don't be too surprised if I take your places

Well, i'm not exactly certain of my unis but i'm planning to apply to oxbridge (cambridge if my unit 2 marks are pretty good), imperial (definitely), birmginham (definitely!) and then BSMS/Kings depending on my UKCAT.

Nice, I'm doing maths, biology, chemistry and physics (and critical thinking but like that's a real subject )
Haha, medicine is obviously better

Haha I dropped physics after a month... it was too hard. GCSE physics is sooo much easier lol.

Have u done any ukcat practice. Managed to look at some ques.. timing is so tight!!

i thought about dropping physics, but im havin so much fun now. i think initially its really hard, bt then gets better. i was gettin E's in my test at the start, i thought it was time to say goodbye to medicine!