"Spent conviction rules top student out of medical course..."

[agneishd]

I wonder how many new imperial students have done anything vaguely illegal in their lives...

[NorthernLight]

Originally Posted by Singh.Simran

banning people for reasons no worse than 90% of accepted folks are undoubtedly guilty of is....naive.

I don't see anyone being "banned" - one medical school out of very many has decided to withdraw an offer. Many others might take a different view.
Still, it's nice to know I'm in a minority of 10% of people who haven't got a criminal record . . .

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by NorthernLight

I don't see anyone being "banned" - one medical school out of very many has decided to withdraw an offer. Many others might take a different view.
Still, it's nice to know I'm in a minority of 10% of people who haven't got a criminal record . . .

manchester apparently gave him a second chance...

and I think he meant 90% have done something bad/illegal that they have not been necessarily caught for, and thus can be said in theory to be of equally "bad character"

[Singh.Simran]

I wonder how many new imperial students have done anything vaguely illegal in their lives...

Well... let's just say i hope they don't get me up in front of the court and ask me to tell the whole truth about your past activities :P

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by Singh.Simran

Well... let's just say i hope they don't get me up in front of the court and ask me to tell the whole truth about your past activities :P

can't recall what you're thinkin' 'bout

[kotoreru]

I would just draw attention to your misunderstanding of FtPs and CRB checks, Northern Lights. A person has an FtP if anything at all is found on their CRB. Not because they neglected to mention it, which, for the 5th time, he possibly did not.

I personally am going through the very same thing with Barts' at the moment, and have read well into this story, so I do know what I'm talking about.

[gimperial99]

I doubt 90% of medical school applicants have carried out illegal acts, perhaps this illustrates your poor view of medical students as opposed to the truth?

You have to look into the future. Imagine this guy was treating someone and stole their purse or something similar? Then the media got hold of it. Imperial would have been crucified for letting him into medical school. I think that is their perspective.

Unfortunately people in this country do not like to take responsibility for their actions.

[Clarkey]

If he didn't declare it then he should have had his offer withdrawn. If he did declare it, was given an offer with them knowing his past and then it was withdrawn...well thats out of order.

But everyone is saying different things so i dunno!

[LightElf7]

From what I've read in the article, he didnt mention it on UCAS when he applied, and only showed up after he received his offer and later showed up on his CRB check, and then the college withdrew its offer.

[kotoreru]

The UCAS form only asks for Convictions, not Cautions. If that's what he's got - and I do believe it is - then he was within his rights to omit it on the form. Medical schools specifically ask again later, with more exact wording, because of this exact thing.