Applying for medicine 2022 how to tactically apply

[jenthehen]

My daughter is currently year 12. She’s really hoping to study medicine but she realises she’s up against tough competition. She’s bright but mainly 7’s and 8’s at GCSE rather than straight 9’s. She works so hard to get these grades and realises that straight A’s at A level are going to require intense study.
She’s realistic and knows that applying to the top medicine courses would be probably be unrealistic but she’s finding it hard to know where to apply. She’s studying Biology, Chemistry and Psychology. Can anyone offer any advice on which Unis she could apply to. She’s so far ruled out all unis requiring BMAT (she’s focusing on the UCAT), also ruled out London Unis due to living costs and also Exeter and Birmingham due to competition for places. There’s no real help available from school (state school) and we have no medics in the family. Any help and advice very welcome.

@KingscoteStaff

Well I’m stressed already by having to follow two Med’22 threads in fear of missing a single pearl of wisdom!

We are picking DS up from uni this weekend - have left DD with Granny, Medify and a Chemistry essay for company.

It feels like our worlds are colliding @KingscoteStaff. I have a DS heading up to Durham in September (currently on a gap yah!) and a DD applying for medicine this year.

She REALLY wants to go to Exeter so she'll have to nail the UCAT.

PS Where's the other thread lurking?

@MidLifeCrisis007 I remember you from last year's eventful Year 13 thread! I hope the gap yah is going well.

This is the other thread.

@KingscoteStaff and I met on 11+ threads ages back (when the DD did it). UCAT is strangely familiar if you did 11+. Obviously not the same but similar.

DD is lucky in that she likes puzzles and sudoku etc. Strange how these things prove useful.

For whatever reason the other medicine thread doesn't show up on Higher Education when I look for it... the only way I can access it is via the link (which I've now bookmarked). Weird....