medical uni

[prashanthi]

my daughter wants do the medicine she got 605 in ukcat
A s grade was ABBB A2 predic grade A AAA and GCSE 4A 2A 4B
please advice me which uni she can apply

KIND REGARDS

Applications have to be in within the next 2 weeks so you are leaving it a bit late to be asking a question like this if you want to start in 2014.
Also need to know if your daughter is going to do the BMAT test and whether she is doing Biology and Maths as that also filters out some establishments.
The Student Room website www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Medicine does this sort of thing to death but from memory:

If you are not doing BMAT you can rule out:
Oxford
Cambridge
Imperial
UCL
Leeds

You can also rule out:
Birmingham - GCSEs not good enough
Nottingham - UKCAT a bit low possibly

I'd try Bristol as their selection is completely random and state school sympathetic.

If your daughter is having a year out then don't worry about the AS results, concentrate on Getting A*AAA, do some research on The Student Room and other sites, retake UKCAT and do the BMAT and then visit the schools on your short list.

she is in the A2 now need to apply uni on 15/10/13 please let me know what do you thing can we apply manchester,aber deen

she is doing biology chemistry physics and maths

but she is in grammer school

Has your daughter not already done any research on this? Surely she has not just now decided to apply for medicine? She needs to get some urgent careers advice from her school. I presume she is aware that medicine is horribly competitive and as well as academic results she will also need to show concrete evidence of really wanting to study medicine - relevant work experience, volunteering in an old folks home, St John's Ambulance etc.

To be honest your daughter should have looked at all of this a year ago - you have 11 days left. It is very late in the day, and she should be doing the research, not you, she should have been doing open days, finding out requirements etc long before now.

Assume she has excellent work experience?

Agree Student Room will have far more answer than mumsnet.

Her UCAS form needs to go in by 15 October at latest. This must include her school's reference which takes time. So she should aim to have her UCAS form complete including all her choices by Monday 7 October.

Have a look on the UCAS website for more info, including a guide for parents.

Good luck.

has she done relevent work experience? my dds friend put in an application including all a stars and extensive work experience in this country and abroad and didnt even get an interview. Really how committed is she? if she has done none of the prep over last 2 years she needs to think about taking a gap year, getting experience and applying after that. Or applying for something else this year

”my daughter wants do the medicine she got . . .
please advice me which uni she can apply”

Don’t mean to be rude here but did your daughter wake up from bed just recently and decided she wanted to do medicine? It sure sounds like it to me. I don’t see evidence that she had ever consulted with her grammar school about her intended uni course, nor do I see any evidence of any sort that she is committed to a life in the medical profession.

I won’t bother to explain what happens at medical school even if she did get in somehow. It’s a long course and many don’t last the pace if my son’s school is anything to go by.

You asked for advice and I’ll give you my very honest advice just like I had given to my own DD before.

Forget it!

There are many other worthy courses out there better than medicine and not so punishing.

This may sound harsh, your DD's GCSE; AS and UKCAT grades are really below par for applying Medicine, and she doesn't seem to have much work experience to support her application too. Like Greenfolder mentioned, many students with straight A in GCSE, and AS, and good UKCAT did not even get interviews. I doubt with her current grades even a good BMAT will make the cut for any BMAT's medical schools.
If she really set her heart to do so, there is two way forward. One is make sure she gets top results in her A2, take a gap year to get all the necessary work experiences to prove that she is committed to this profession, and reapply. Second, is to apply for Bio-Med or something similar now, work really hard and then go for graduate Medicine, this is a long shot. Get her to talk to her career advisors in school.

”. . . many students with straight A in GCSE, and AS, and good UKCAT did not even get interviews.”

It’s out of respect to OP and DD that I consciously avoided mentioning academic grades in my earlier post. But this is the reality in the modern age of applying to study medicine in the UK.

She needs to have hands on voluntary work in a hospice or care home - months of it, preferably a year.

PLUS a week of work experience in a hospital.

If she doesn't have that she won't get in, regardless of her grades.

Could OP's DD plan to apply next October & otherwise have a gap year? That would give her time to get some work experience, maybe.
Just a thought.

I'm with everyone who says that medicine this year just won't happen for your DD - her grades are just not good enough and she needs a whole year of relevant experience to back it up. You don't say what subject her A at AS is in - that would definitely need to be in chemistry as a starter.

Another option is to plan for post gradiuate medicine and do a biochemistry or biomedical sciences degree now - her grades may be good enough for that (offers are typically AAA for top unis). But I'd also just be sure that she can achieve that so her application is not wasted - if school has predicted her A2s so far above her ASs you'd want to be sure that just isn't blind optimism - it's not easy to raise a grade in every subject.

Where has the OP gone?

To look at some uni websites, I hope.......