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Originally Posted by lurveslave
Hey,
So obviously those medix who've been accepted are going to put a medical course as their firm choice on ucas, but what about the insurance choice? All Med offers are AAB (unless ur like amazingly bright!) So what is the point of putting an AAB offer as firm choice and as an insurance choice? I have been accepted to do Human Sciences in Kingz, as well as medicine, and the offer there is BBC, now if i put that as my insurance choice surely it makes more sense, then if i don't get the AAB grades i can go for that course. Basically what i'm trying to say is Medicine won't take you in Clearing if you don't get the grades, so why put your insurance choice as the same grades as your firm. I'd love to hear what other people are doing please.
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I hope you're not personally offended, but I completely disagree.
Firstly, NOT all offers are AAB at all... Oxbridge Medicine Courses are AAA so if you put Oxbridge as your First choice then another Uni can definitely be Insurance for AAB. Imperial is my First choice with AABC and Liverpool my Insurance choice with AAB (I do four subjects).
Even for people taking three subjects and assuming that they get two offers of AAB for each Medicine Course then I still think both of these should be the First & Insurance Choices rather than a Human Sciences / similar backup choice. This is because I think most people who actually get offers for Medicine have a certain very strong commitment and desire to study it and wouldn't want to study anything else. It's a very unique vocational degree and if you don't want to do any other, there is no point in putting another one down.
Finally, if you don't meet a conditional offer then it's no guarentee at all that you won't get into your Uni of choice. Plenty of people I know missed their offer by a grade but were still accepted to that Uni. So by having two offers, you're doubling the chance of one Uni will accept a slightly lower grade than previously expected.
Anyways, those are my reasons for disagreeing with you but (believe it or not), I can see where you may be coming from if you don't mind doing a Human Science degree rather than Medicine.