Clearing

[Olympicfan]

At least 2 Medicine courses are in clearing this year- St Georges and UCLan.

How can clearing be open when pupils in England don't receive A level result until August? (Not sure about other countries in uk)
I saw it on the Ucas website but it doesn't make sense

Clearing is open from 5 July. However it does not necessarily mean that offers will be made. There are also many students who received no offers for medicine who are eligible for clearing already and can ask for an offer via extra (out of clearing places).

www.ucas.com/ucas/events/find/scheme/undergraduate/type/key-date
Anyone applying for the first time from June 30th also goes into the clearing process, - it's not just for A level applicants who don't make the grade...

I'm not sure about UCLan but St George's always does clearing.

All it means is that they might be tempted by a well qualified applicant. Doesn't mean that they have places they are desperate to fill at knockdown grades.

Quoting the resident advisors on the Medicine threads on TSR, medical schools go into Clearing to attract those who meet their normal entry requirements, but have not got offers elsewhere, not to fill places by dropping their requirements.

@MarchingFrogs

Quoting the resident advisors on the Medicine threads on TSR, medical schools go into Clearing to attract those who meet their normal entry requirements, but have not got offers elsewhere, not to fill places by dropping their requirements.

Indeed. There are many stories of candidates with four offers, and equally acceptable candidates with none. The four offer holder will be dumping at two, so I assume these are the places which become free.

UCLan is only international and St George's always hold back a few places for clearing. Clearing has been open for a while and is great if someone has no offers, or has changed their mind.

Clearing is also open for IB students who get their results earlier than A level students.

And Scottish students who get the Highers results before A levels.
And Weish students who have their provisional grades now have time to view the clearing places and talk potential unis ahead of results day.

So, how does that all work then? Do they hold back some places for English A Level students?

There will inevitably be some / lots more places becoming available on Aevel results day, when some people do significantly worse than expected in their A levels.

It will be interesting to see if DCs do perform significantly worse. Last year when predicted grades were used, the numbers of A*s doubled in all subjects compared to previous years. This year I understand teachers are expecting some leniency on grades due the disruption so many students have suffered in their education.

@BlueCowWonders

How can clearing be open when pupils in England don't receive A level result until August? (Not sure about other countries in uk) I saw it on the Ucas website but it doesn't make sense

Not everyone takes A levels. IB results come out at the beginning of July.

For those without offers, St Georges is worth a look.

It is in a pleasant London suburb, with lots of green space and scope to find cheaper accommodation further down the northern line, so with easy access to London but without many of the drawbacks of the central London medical schools.

However it is small, and part of a hospital rather than a University. It is not far from where we live and DD knew plenty who either went there or were students there. (There was some overlap of players, and indeed coaches, between her sports club and the StG medic team, so in the same way that DD played for the University rather than the medic team, StGs better players had the option of playing club sport.) We have also met several young doctors who trained there.

Plenty appear to really love studying at StG: training in a hospital environment in a small bonded cohort. DD went to an open day expecting/wanting to like it and to put it down as her fallback choice, but realised she wanted a broader student experience in a University environment. Each to their own.

It is where 24 hours in A&E is filmed.

I suspect it is a medical school that many applicants overlook, so they have decided on an approach which enables them to fill their course without lowering their standards. From observation unlike other medical schools, they are unwilling to be flexible with offer-holders who miss grades. Hence the clearing places.