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[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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[doozy]

im having exactly the same problem. my form tutor still insists that u shud put down another medicine course as ur insurance even if its the same grades because they may be willing to slightly lower their requirements if they liked u or if u had extenuating circumstances etc etc.
i also read somewhere that ur insurance place shud ideally be somewhere that accepts resit students so that may be worth looking into.
i think i'll just hope for the best and put down a firm choice n then my insurance as the uni where my interview went relatively good (they make notes etc that they may look at in order to make the decision).

[jamnl]

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.

[doozy]

i see what u mean jamnl but the large majority of offers are still AAB and as medicine is so competitive, it just seems that because the unis wont have enough places as it is, they wud prefer students who've met the grade requirements (proves ur academically able enough for the course blah blah). also, most have waiting lists which are full of people with brilliant grades. n why du think unis give out a lot more offers than places available? not only because some students wont choose them but also because some wont get the grades.