[Linnaeus]

Arch Angel, seriously, when you say 'I suspect you know this well', I don't. I honestly have no idea whether or not my scores are good enough for places like Imperial, let alone Kings GEP. I really, really don't want to waste one of my precious four UCAS spaces, and I've read some very scary things about cutoffs at the latter (like 775), but this was probably forum scaremongering. Credit to Barts for being pretty open about their cutoffs and being amenable to applicants calling to ask. I don't see why other schools can't at least give an indication of what might be an appropriate target score; it seems only fair.

Psy, I couldn't agree more with a number of the points you made. In answer to your Imperial 'top 15%' query, I don't know if it applies to the top 15% UKCAT nationally or to their applicants - am guessing the latter would be considerably higher. If this is the case, I have no idea what a 'top 15% of Imperial applicants' kind of score will look like. I tried calling their GEP admissions department on Friday but it went to answer machine. I'm going to try again tomorrow and will post if I get some joy.

Sometimes I agree that a 'names out of a hat' approach would be preferable to this veritable bugger's muddle.