Graduate applicants

**anton** · 21-08-2008 04:12 PM

Hi

I am starting Biomedical Sciences at Aberdeen this September. As things stand I plan to apply to medicine as a graduate. My question is: How will Aberdeen access a Graduate application to medicine? Will they base selection purely on getting a 2:1 in my first degree, or will they look back at my school career too? I failed all my classes this year and was fortunate to get into Biomedical based on my 5th year grades.

This is all very disheartening - the thought of being ruled out of medicine completely just because I bombed 6th year makes me feel like giving up alltogether.

Please any advice/insight appreciated

**edinburghmedic** · 22-08-2008 02:39 PM

this is edinburgh board¬!

**anton** · 22-08-2008 06:31 PM

sorry guys, same question but 4 med at edinburgh instead!!

**hellybelly1** · 22-08-2008 11:39 PM

This is from the Edinburgh University website regarding qualifications required of Graduate applicants:

Graduate applicants

Applications for graduate entry to the first year of either the five- or the six-year programme are welcomed. The minimum criteria to enter the selection system are normally:

* a 1st or upper 2nd class honours degree, plus
* school-leaving qualifications with minimum, at one sitting, of BBBB at SQA Higher or BBB at A-level.

So having failed your sixth year exams shouldn't be a problem for Edinburgh, as long as you have the required Higher grades from your fifth year. When you do come to apply in a few years time, I strongly recommend emailing all the admissions tutors of the universities you're thinking of applying to, just to check that you do actually fulfil their minimum requirements. Sometimes the website information can be confusing, or even out of date, and there's no point wasting a precious application slot if your application won't even get looked at because you don't have the right exam passes in the first place.

There are lots of different paths that can be taken into medicine these days, and just because you did badly in your sixth year exams certainly doesn't mean you won't be able to find a way in.