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A word of warning from the wise ...........

..........Don't blindly believe anything you hear about medicine unless it is directly from the Universities. (and, even they are not above giving out conflicting information)

The Student Room IB Requirements For Medicine is reliable (but still double check)

My Eldest DC did the IB and is now a second year medicine student. He doesn't have any other qualifications at all but still got offers. His offers were all 'standard' offers, ie the entry requirements given in the Universities Medicine Admissions Pages or Policies. Medicine offers tend to be very standardised.

My son was told by someone in the admissions dept at Barts that although the IB requirement was more stringent than the A level requirement that there was more wriggle room if you missed a grade on one of your exams unlike A levels grades where the is no scope for applicants to miss a grade. I have no idea if this is true in practise but it would be nice if it was

No, but will watch this thread with interest as DD1 is planning to start IB in September. She had a chat with a former IBer recently who told her that Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge were not as keen on IB as most other universities, but that was not specifically for medicine.

And if so, what offers are they getting?

Would be even better if they are applying for medicine as will afford better comparison with DD (who has just been rejected by Cambridge and now fears being rejected by all her other choices as well).