Getting into Manchester?

[Madimi]

At my interview they seemed more interested in my experience shadowing doctors rather than my hospice volunteer work.

[purpleee]

Originally Posted by Madimi

At my interview they seemed more interested in my experience shadowing doctors rather than my hospice volunteer work.

If you don't mind me asking did you have quite a lot of work experience at a range of different places or was your work experience fairly limited?

[theatrical]

They're very keen on voluntary work experience. They said at the open day last weekend (I was one of the students working at it) that it can be difficult for people applying while still under-18 to get medically-related work experience, so they consider non-medical work experince and voluntary work equally with more medically-related stuff.

Hey Madimi - not seen you much in lectures recently, how's 2nd year going for you?

[Medical Addict]

I got rejected last year for having a lack of caring experience, even though i had quite abit of medically related experience. So if they rate them equally why did i get rejected before interview? Confused.

[Isometrix]

guys would you say 627.5 would be high enough to be placed in the top X for an interview? if its not high enough will they still look at your app and if its good enough will they reconsider?

[Kinkerz]

I reckon you'd be borderline. It could go either way.

In their admissions statement things, they said the top 'x' UKCAT scoring applicants will be interviewed. Nothing about other areas of your application.

[NV05]

They may do it by standard deviations from the mean on a normal distribution. That'd be cool. Then you'd know how it feels to pass/fail exams at Manchester.

[theatrical]

Originally Posted by Kinkerz

In their admissions statement things, they said the top 'x' UKCAT scoring applicants will be interviewed. Nothing about other areas of your application.

It's not the top X of all their applicants, according to their UKCAT score, that receive interviews - just the top 50% of those shortlisted.

The process is as follows:
1) Academic assessment
2) Personal statement and reference assessment (all applications scored and those meeting a certain score go on to stage 3)
3) Ranking by UKCAT
4) Top 50% of those ranked go straight to interview. The remainder are selected on the basis of their application plus UKCAT scores)

The process as far as stage 2 is the same as previously and they usually interviewed ~1,100 applicants (out of ~3000). They've introduced the UKCAT ranking stage to cut down on the number of applicants being interviewed - they want to interview about 750 next year. They still fully consider the rest of your application before looking at your UKCAT - so a lowish score could be fine.

[theatrical]

Originally Posted by Medical Addict

I got rejected last year for having a lack of caring experience, even though i had quite abit of medically related experience. So if they rate them equally why did i get rejected before interview? Confused.

Almost all the work experience should be of a caring nature - the point I meant was that it doesn't matter if that caring experience is in a medical setting or a non-medical setting, for example - in an old peoples home or centre for the blind (where I did most of mine).

[Kinkerz]

Originally Posted by theatrical

It's not the top X of all their applicants, according to their UKCAT score, that receive interviews - just the top 50% of those shortlisted.

The process is as follows:
1) Academic assessment
2) Personal statement and reference assessment (all applications scored and those meeting a certain score go on to stage 3)
3) Ranking by UKCAT
4) Top 50% of those ranked go straight to interview. The remainder are selected on the basis of their application plus UKCAT scores)

The process as far as stage 2 is the same as previously and they usually interviewed ~1,100 applicants (out of ~3000). They've introduced the UKCAT ranking stage to cut down on the number of applicants being interviewed - they want to interview about 750 next year. They still fully consider the rest of your application before looking at your UKCAT - so a lowish score could be fine.

Oh right. Well even so, a bad UKCAT would normally mean rejection.

But it means Isometrix has a better chance.