Medicine 2024 part 2

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New thread. Hope the offers keep flowing in

Well.done loosing the plot ds!

Dd had a nottingham interview invite too.

Congratulation to all who got interviews , and good luck for everyone waiting . We are waiting for Southampton , they are taking their time !

We're waiting on Southampton (and st andrews) too. It's on the Southampton website that interviews will be late Jan / early Feb so I won't be surprised if we don't hear for a while.

Glasgow has started to send out offers. Ds got his this evening, friends heard earlier today. He's very pleased although it's not his first choice.

I've realised that sounds very dismissive, when of course he's delighted and lucky to get any offer at all.

@speedyhedgehog well done to DD on interview at Nottingham and to everyone else who has received interviews this week. Hopefully January interviews will be informed before the Christmas break.

It doesn't sound dismissive at all obviously all DC are going to have their first choice but as long as they get one offer that is all that matters.

Congrats to him @OwlMother , lovely news to get this side of Christmas! And good luck for all the new interviews coming through.

DD had first interview today and thought it was ok (which is as good as it will ever be from her so I’m happy with that 😂) Next 2 are in January and then the wait continues…

@OwlMother when did your DS interview? My DD had hers today for Glasgow

@ipredictariot5 Two weeks ago. I think he was one of the first. Fingers crossed for your Dd. How did she think she'd done?

Congrats to your son @OwlMother! Good to hear of offers coming out before Christmas for some. Hope others waiting to hear about interviews have some luck in the New Year too 🤞

Congrats OwlMothers DS! What a lovely Christmas present!

Congratulations, Owlmother's DS!

Thank you all. He's heading off to interview three today with a serious spying in his step!

Good luck to everyone with interviews coming up, and those still waiting to hear. I do think, like others have said, that there has to be a better way of doing this. Ds has his last interview on Monday while some Unis are yet to start the process. And then all the waiting while they should be focused on the all important exams. Horrible process.

@OwlMother I totally agree re the interview process. DS2 had one interview 2 weeks ago, two interviews this week and then one in January. Some of his friends haven't heard back from any unis yet so they could theoretically get four interviews in January. Medicine application is all new to me but it really could be done so much better than this.

I think Scotland does it better than England in general - as evidenced by the early offers. They seem to get interviews done much quicker, offers are processed much quicker - it was the same last year. But I agree that the whole system needs overhaul.

My Dd has got an interview date through for St. Andrew's today. Its for January so she has 3 confirmed for January now waiting on Southampton who have said theirs will be late Jan/ early Feb. She's very happy.

Huge congratulations on all the interviews and lovely early offers. It's a tough process, but will be worth it in the end. And gets them ready for what's to come once they qualify !
Things seem nicely back to normal again. Which after the last few years is very welcome. I know it's hard to imagine but this year is nice compared to the last 2 !
Hopefully everyone will have heard from everywhere by March. Not July like last year. So far seem less waiting lists too.

That's great news @speedyhedgehog! Very busy January for you, are they all in person?

In person is great but does eat up a lot of time. We are still waiting for ds to return from his interview, he left the house at 0520 this morning- very long day. Quite hard to keep focussed on school and studying when this year is so fragmented.

DD finally got an invitation from QMUL today but still waiting for UCL.

my DD has done Sunderland Glasgow and Manchester this week. Sunderland very friendly but most formal. The other two were relaxed friendly and chatty ( though a few tough questions) She forgot herself though at the start of the third interview when she walked in and told the interviewer that she loved her Christmas jumper and wasted time talking about Christmas jumpers generally 😂

@ipredictariot5 wow, that’s quite a gruelling week! But really good to get it out of the way. DD’s interviews are very spread out - one today and two in January (two weeks apart)

DS2 had interview at Leicester today and just one more left which is UCL end of January.

If TSR is to be trusted then dd should get one from UCL but no news yet… 😟

Well done on the QMUL interview @Notcontent !

we still haven’t heard. Can I ask what your DD’s UCAT was? I’m keeping my fingers crossed!🤞🏼