Does a social science grad have any shot?

**Iceman10** · 07-08-2012, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by TheTool

One of them got into Manchester (5 year) and the other Newcastle. If i was in your position I would most likely apply because you can always pay for the first year term by term (which equals to about 1,000) a year. Or you can always get a job for this year whilst you are applying and save up enough for october 2013 if you get in. My uni application is actually going great. I have done everything (ps, wk etc) all I need now is to do my UKCAT which I will not be doing until september.

Like you I come from a non scientific background, so I will be applying for Newcastle, Warwick and Kings. If you want I could ask those people how they managed to get in?

I think that's not entirely true, each university will have their own policy on how and when tuition fees are paid. You don't want to find yourself in the worst case scenario where you have a place but can't fund it.

My university sent me an email stating that they wanted the fees paid pretty early in the first semester.

**NotADumbBlonde** · 08-08-2012, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Iceman10

If its any consolation, I have the face of a teenager but its a while since I've been that old lol.

I was ID'd for a frickin LOTTERY TICKET the other day! Do I actually look 15?!xx

**NotADumbBlonde** · 08-08-2012, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by TheTool

One of them got into Manchester (5 year) and the other Newcastle. If i was in your position I would most likely apply because you can always pay for the first year term by term (which equals to about 1,000) a year. Or you can always get a job for this year whilst you are applying and save up enough for october 2013 if you get in. My uni application is actually going great. I have done everything (ps, wk etc) all I need now is to do my UKCAT which I will not be doing until september.

Like you I come from a non scientific background, so I will be applying for Newcastle, Warwick and Kings. If you want I could ask those people how they managed to get in?

That would be great if you could ask them how they got in, thank you

was it the 4 year or 5 year and NCL? Which is going to be your first choice?xx

**Iceman10** · 08-08-2012, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by NotADumbBlonde

I was ID'd for a frickin LOTTERY TICKET the other day! Do I actually look 15?!xx

Lol I know the feeling, I can't buy the lottery or alcohol and have been turned away with ID trying to buy alcohol in my local Morrisons.

**Martigan** · 08-08-2012, 04:41 PM

You're lucky, I now get carded to prove that I'm a student!

**Iceman10** · 08-08-2012, 04:53 PM

Lol I think you win with that one Martigan.

**NotADumbBlonde** · 08-08-2012, 05:47 PM

True - but when you walk in with car keys in your hand and pass over your driver's license as proof of ID, and they stare at it for ages trying to work out your date of birth, you feel a bit like "THE FACT I HAVE A PINK DRIVING LICENSE CLEARLY MEANS I'M OVER 15!"

**Martigan** · 08-08-2012, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Iceman10

Lol I think you win with that one Martigan.

:-P I still have a paper licence - which doesn't expire till I'm 70! However as i'm about to move, I will have to give it up for a new picture one...

**TheTool** · 08-08-2012, 10:47 PM

NotADumbBlond

I was speaking to one of them the other day about how he got in (Manchester 5 year). He was quite helpful in that he talked about what experiences he had and so on. He said he first phoned up the uni, the uni told him that he needed 6 months experience in a care environment. Unfortunately he did not have this, however he was part of his university football team for two years and he had volunteered for the odd charity positions at uni, such as working with St Johns Hospice. In addition to this when he applied, he phoned up a hospital (in july) and he was able to get a volunteering job there, so he was also able to put that in his PS. By the time he had sent off his UCAS app, he had three months of working in the hospital, his uni activities (biology societies, med soc etc) and 1 week shadowing a GP (I think it was his friends GP, hence why he was able to shadow a doctor so quickly). Manchester was the only uni that actually accepted him.

My other mate at Newcastle just told me that Newcastle had also told him that he needed at least some long term commitment in a care environment. Again, he only realised he wanted to go into medicine after his second year at uni (I think he was doing BioMedSci). He said after his second year exams had finished, he had found a job in a hospital (mental health ward). This was his only experience in a medical field. But he said that a lot of the nurses at the hospital were really nice to him and one of them even wrote him his reference. Again, he said that in his PS he drew attention to his university work, his year abroad and his experience with working in a hospital.

For me as long as I get into a university, that is all I care about to be honest. Besides, I like all the universities that I have applied to so fingers crossed!! Have you decided whether you want to apply now?