Medicine 2024 part 3

[mumsneedwine]

Saw we needed a new thread. Hope revision going well.

Happy Birthday to your dd! 🎉 @Randomactofkindness

Dd had a strange email from Nottingham last week which thanked her for attending her interview and said they would be in touch if she was successful at interview and places came available… despite the fact she was interviewed by them in Jan, given an offer in March but firmed and insured elsewhere! Just an admin error perhaps?!

@Groundhogday2021 thank you!
That does sound strange 🤔

@Groundhogday2021 Nottingham are a bit notorious with their random emails 😂

Thanks mumsneedwine! 😊 I thought it was probably just random! I suspect they have given a few interviews out more recently and her email got caught up with them!

Anyone else starting to get a bit nervous??

@Notcontent absolutely 🤯 Thursday cannot come soon enough…………

@Randomactofkindness glad it’s not just me! We are on holiday at the moment, which is helping, but I am feeling slightly on edge.

@Notcontent we are too - back home on Monday - daughters 18th birthday was Thursday gone which was a good distraction and she’s having a big party with all her friends this Wednesday evening……..figured they could all have a few drinks and forget about the next day together!!

Hi everyone! Just checking in to see how everyone is!

@Waferbiscuit - saw your news…hope you’re all ok ….

@Habbibu - many congrats!

@OwlMother Weirdly, DS took French as his fourth a level and then dropped it! He kept maths but we all wished he’d kept French and dropped Maths, as it’s definitely his weakest subject.

Anxiously waiting here! DS has registered for UCAT for September as a back up. Really praying and hoping he gets the grades he needs…but if it doesn’t work out we think he’ll take a year out, retake as necessary and go and get a job to get some real world experience.

Very best of luck to everyone for the 15th!🤞🏼🍀🍀🤞🏼

Also on holiday and travelling back today, so hoping the last few days pass by quickly - nerves starting to appear now.
Party is a great idea for the Wednesday evening @Randomactofkindness !
Good on your DS for getting after his UCAT booking, just in case @Mumofboys2006 - really hoping he can cancel it on Friday 🤞🤞

Thanks @Sybill - we are all being pretty pragmatic at this point.

Both myself and DH took a year out before going to uni so we feel pretty pragmatic about it. 18 feels really young to start uni! There’s a noticeable difference between the 18 and 19 year olds!

Having said that neither of us did medicine and it’s just all the hard work up to this point on interviews and exams that makes it harder!

Just popping over from the 2025 thread to wish everyone on here the very best of luck for Thursday.

You are not kidding. I was 20 when I started but DD is not 18 until October. It's crazy but she would not countenance a year out unfortunately.

Newcastle and Bangor are in clearing if anyone has no offers.

@mumsneedwine Can you go in clearing in Newcastle if rejected after an interview?

Also does this show that offers they made didn't get their grades?

@Ib1234567 unfortunately not. They won't accept you if you've already been rejected this cycle.
It does mean they have spaces due to people not reaching their grades. Unis got them on Sunday, schools get them tomorrow (but a v v limited number of staff can see them - I can't, I'll see them at 8am on Thursday)

Keep an eye on clearing. More are likely to appear in next few days. I'll try and keep everyone updated.

Next few days are a bit tough (my username is a thing !!). Keep busy.

Aarrrgghhhhh

@ipredictariot5 Thanks for your note a few pages back and finger's crossed your DD for tomorrow. She will probably have done better than she thought!

In case it's of interest to the group, I thought I'd share DD's plans as it's very likely her offer will be rescinded due to her marks. (She did IB so we know her marks as they came back in July. She didn't get the grades needed in Chemistry and her overall grades are lower than needed - she needed a '36' minimum and didn't achieve that.)

DD has actually decided not to take a year off and reapply to medicine next year. She felt the UCAT was brutal (she did well on the BMAT but as you know the BMAT is no longer offered). She just doesn't think she can redo the UCAT or chemistry and get a significantly better mark than she did this year. She also feels that if she can't do well in 'high school chemistry' then probably won't get through organic chem in year 2 and 3 of medical school. She feels it will be too much of a struggle.

So basically she's decided to give up on medicine. It's been a really hard tear-filled decision to come to after being so set on medicine for so long. And she's really embarrassed as was Head of MedSoc at her school and won the Medicine award at graduation - but isn't going to med school now! :(

One of the Universities that rejected her suggested some other courses that they could divert her application to. One of those was midwifery and since she was particularly interested in obstetrics and women's health, she decided to put her application to midwifery, got an interview last spring and an offer. She put that as her insurance and now it looks like it's what she's going to study as she did get the grades for this. It's taken many weeks (and so many late night conversations) for her to come around, but now she is really excited.

Midwifery is a different career but probably more suited to her personality. And although it doesn't offer the professional development or the heights of salary and prestige, it very much about patient care which was her main driver for getting into medicine.

So I thought I'd just share this experience as, if you need to consider it, there are always other options for your DCs in the medical field!

Good luck all for tomorrow!

Popping in to wish all your Dc the best of luck tomorrow.

We were eagerly waiting results for Dd last year ( shes just completed y1 med at UEA) and Ds the year before that ( just completed y2 med at Newcastle)

Hope all goes well and lots of happy smiley faces tomorrow

I am sure there as a poster in last years thread.

Dc had firmed somewhere and not got the grades/ rejected on ucas.

Notts rang them up and accepted them with AAB as they saw they were in clearing

@Waferbiscuit
She also feels that if she can't do well in 'high school chemistry' then probably won't get through organic chem in year 2 and 3 of medical school. She feels it will be too much of a struggle.

Which medical schools have organic chemistry courses? I've taught in two and been an external examiner in three, and I've never seen any specific chemistry content.

Looks like Leeds has just been added on UCAS Clearing!

Lots of the modern med schools don’t even require Chem A level these days either.

Plymouth, UEA, Manchester, Lancaster etc.

Newcastle require 3 A levels in any subjects

Yup. Leeds popped into clearing. I feel this is going to be a funny old year ....

@Waferbiscuit my DD said chemistry wasn't that useful. Biology was ! Make sure any decisions are made slowly. But I'd love to be a midwife 😊