Medicine 2021 - Part 3

[SATSmadness]

Hoping for interviews and offers all round, now and well into next year !

[SeasonFinale]

There were a number of Imperial offers made yesterday evening too. And I was going to say Newcastle started a while back but I see someone else already commented. Good luck everyone.

[MaddieElla]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/4201230-Medicine-2021-Part-4?watched=1

New thread here

[IsThisNameTaken]

Very impressive @LaLaFlottes - your DD is a

I think the reserve lists all work differently from what I can gather ... UEA for example won't tell you where you are on the list but just say they will give you a final decision by middle of May. Whereas others give out positions and say they will offer right up until the start of term in Sept.

[Monkey2001]

Only 5 posts left after this - someone needs to do the new thread - make sure you don't use the last post without linking the new thread.

@LaLaFlottes - congratulations, same 3 as my DS! One point he mentioned yesterday about St A is that you meet really interesting people there. He is not keen on the Americans (very frustrated about the entitled attitudes and lack of covid compliance which has consequences for the other students), but has met really nice people from Canada, Kazakhstan and most of Europe. But they are all lovely medical schools and she will be happy wherever she ends up.

[SATSmadness]

P.S. is she available for interview coaching for the 2022 applicants ?

Your DD clearly has what they're looking for at interview, in spades

[SATSmadness]

Fantastic work @LaLaFlottes DD !

[opoponax]

Well done LaLa's DD!! Brilliant news!

[MaddieElla]

Yes that is the worry now isn't it.

DD is in mock week now. Biology and chemistry papers were a dream but physics was horrendous apparently. So the warm glow of med offers is replaced with a worried face when we mention it. 😫

[LaLaFlottes]

@MaddieElla - thank you

I think the front runners are St Andrews and Sheffield at the moment so we will see.

Yes she's been extremely lucky and has 4 offers. Now got to cross fingers for the grades....

[MaddieElla]

Also is that 4 offers?

[MaddieElla]

@LaLaFlottes congrats on Leicester!

Is she swaying towards one Uni in particular yet or is she totally undecided?

[LaLaFlottes]

@SATSmadness I'm sorry you are still waiting for the final decision - I'm really hoping for good news for you and DD.

I'm not exactly sure how it works with reserve lists but one of DD's friends is reserve list for Sheffield for example and I think she said she's only eligible for it if she doesn't hold other offers. She does - so I suppose for now she's on it but will be taken off?

It does sound like reserve lists can be pretty good at converting into offers

[LaLaFlottes]

@Teenageromance yes I think most Medical Schools have been quite open in saying that they have made fewer offers this year as they expect more applicants to meet their grade requirements.

It must be quite a balancing act for them this year!

[LaLaFlottes]

@IsThisNameTaken - amazing! Wonderful news, I'm so pleased to hear that congratulations to your DD

DD heard from her final choice today and has an offer from Leicester too. So hopefully she can make some final decisions over the next week or so.

@MaddieElla that must feel good to have it all done and dusted!

[Teenageromance]

I’m curious how it will work this year with oversubscribed subjects like medicine, dentistry etc. I would think to even apply you would be the type of student who would be guaranteed 3 As on teacher assessment. So don’t know how they are going to work it this year - presumably making fewer offers on the grounds that most offer holders will get the grades needed?

[Monkey2001]

Newcastle usually do 2 waves of offers. They send out offers to the high scorers and rejections to the low scorers first and then the rest a couple of weeks later. I think the bulk of newcastle offers are yet to come. It looks like fewer than 50% have already heard back.

[Millylovespuddles]

@IsThisNameTaken great news!

As for Newcastle, I think it's a case of them waiting to see what spaces may free up as applicants firm elsewhere. This drip-feed approach is hard any year, but this year seems especially cruel.

[opoponax]

@Monkey Newcastle has been sending out offers throughout March though. My DS got one right at the start of the month.

[opoponax]

Wonderful news @IsThisNameTaken. Mid-week celebrations this evening!

DS is also still waiting to hear from Manchester. TSR comments say they are sending offers and rejections in parallel and in random order.

[WithIcePlease]

@IsThisNameTaken
Fab news 🎉😂
Still waiting for 2 here and I'm not optimistic of last being before 31 March

[Monkey2001]

Congratulations @IsThisNameTaken

I saw that Newcastle have sent an e-mail to lots of applicants telling them that "because of the circumstances this year they’re unable to make a decision yet". They are so much later than usual. I assume some are looking for clarity on how generous the grades will be this year, but the wait was bad enough in normal times!

[Iamsodonewith2020]

Anyone heard nothing from any of the universities after interview?

[MaddieElla]

You're right. It's certainly an emotional rollercoaster.

You have an amazing memory. Yes, she did get an offer for Nottingham Lincoln which is 30 minutes away from home. In one way it will be much better logistically and she didn't really want a big city atmosphere. But part of me thinks that a big city atmosphere would be amazing and a lot of students like to be a long way from home. She will still be staying in Uni accommodation which might prove to be crazy due to the cost and the proximity to home, but I think they need that experience, especially in the first year.

[SATSmadness]

@MaddieElla

It's a balancing act between needing to leave the dc themselves invested in the process by making decisions etc but also needing to be kept informed in order to be able to provide relevant assistance.

I think I recall that your DD was applying to a very local (to her) Uni med school, did she get an offer from there or will she be going away from home for the Uni experience ?

[MaddieElla]

It really is the not knowing isn't it. I would come to the same conclusion as you once everyone has firmed/insured/discounted Unis, things will look different.

To firm, you have to have received all decisions, so I actually have no idea what that means to people on reserve lists. Can you even firm if you're on a reserve list?

I would want to know where I was on that list, assuming all Unis tell applicants that info. But I'm as impatient as they come.