How many GCSEs for medicine

[manchestermom5]

Friends daughter is a home-ed, she has got 7 IGCSEs. How many GCSEs / IGCSE does she need to do medicine?

As she is Home Ed I would have thought that usual expectations don't really apply. She needs the right A levels and suitable work experience.

Off the top of my head, I think the unis that score applicants on their GCSEs use the six best so 7 should be ok?

This document appears to have the details for every med school.

www.medschools.ac.uk/media/2701/msc-entry-requirements-for-uk-medical-schools-2021.pdf

Some have no specific gcse requirements, others vary between 5-8 it seems.

I think there is a big difference between 'most candidates usually have' and 'this is what is required'.
Most candidates will probably have a shed load of top grade GCSEs. But Home Ed children have come through a different route, so won't be standard.

8 is the minimum number that a child at school would be expected to take but universities are flexible with home educated students.

Some universities score GCSEs as part of their shortlisting process for interview. So for instance, Cardiff will score 9 GCSEs, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham score 8 (with specified subjects) etc. Then there are some unis that do not factor GCSEs into their selection criteria at all and use say, predicted grades or UCAT as the shortlisting tool.

I would advise your friend's DD to narrow down her choices and then call the admissions office to clarify how being homeschooled might create an exceptional circumstance.

Also, things may vary more than usual for this year's cohort due to Covid and its effects?

I think schools are all different I did 10, some poeple I know did 11, some years it was more common to do 9 or 9. I wouldn,t expect home edd children to do 11 gCSE. It,s prably more important to look at the subjects they really do want. (Sciences , maths, Englsh.)

I would advise your friend's DD to narrow down her choices and then call the admissions office to clarify how being homeschooled might create an exceptional circumstance.

Absolutely. Uni admissions staff are there to help, and while MN is useful not everything people post is necessarily accurate for each and every case or may not be up to date. So it's best to get it from the horse's mouth. DD got some very helpful responses when she emailed various admissions tutors about A level choices (not for medicine).

The link I found may give a useful starting point as well as further info. Admissions contact details are usually pretty easy to find on course websites.

Agree with Erroll, the uni admissions people are very helpful. Dd has asked them questions re a levels for a non medical course, and they come quite quickly with useful replies.

OP: is she doing A-levels at a college now?
Which A-levels?
What were her grades on the GCSEs?