Biomed Anyone?

[Fonzie]

Originally Posted by mochalatte

Where did you get 7 out of 50 from?? There weren't up to 50 on my course at the time and every1 who did well enough was offered an interview so it was up to whether the person wanted it badly enough to work hard. i know now that they take more students onto the course but they don't set a limit to whom they interview for transfer. Also we're talking here about transferring into the 3rd year so there's no 'full three extra' ( as you put it) involved, you'll end up doing 6 years in total. It's one thing to get the A levels but it's another to pass the interview and i also read that they don't accept Alevel resitters unless it's within the same 2 years.

'instead of letting a crutch like yours drag them down into letting themselves not get the grades' WOTS WRONG WITH HAVIN A PLAN B??
this is why i don't usually comment on these things...do ur research ppl

There's nothing wrong with having a plan B but most medical/dental students and careers advisors and anyone who knows a thing or too about the admissions process at udnergraduate and graduate level will tell you that taking a place on a Biomedical Sciences course is not a good plan B. Maybe a plan C or D but certainly not a plan B.

If you just miss out on the grades (say ABB for an AAA offer) how on Earth is it a good idea to do a course like Biomed where you would need to score very high marks to even stand a chance of getting the interview to enter into Year 3 or if you muck up and get less than 2:1 you've effectively closed the door on a career in Medicine forever? Also, plenty of students with 1:1s are being left empty handed when applying through UCAS as graduates.

If you're reluctant to resit A-Levels and reapply having missed the grades (an easier option) then it says a lot about your dedication to Medicine as a course and career; giving up at the first hurdle and when the going gets tough.

Yeah George's don't consider resits but plenty of places do like Liverpool, Southampton, Peninsula, BSMS, UEA, Keele, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and nearly all will consider resits if the student has valid mitigating circumstances.

The Biomed route can be successful for some but examples of this are few and far between. Yes it is tougher for resit students to get in but you will find there is more success going down the resit route than there is with Biomed route and having known people who have got in as resits and people who have gone on to Biomed and ultimately been left empty handed, I stand by my comments.

The OP must be only 1 7/18 right? What is one year of your life? A small price to pay if it means in 6 years time you'll be coming out with the degree in the course you wanted to study and an open path into your cherished career.

Biomed is the degree equivalent of a poisoned challice, end of.

[Fonzie]

Originally Posted by mochalatte

It's also misleading saying it's a shit option! A few do it each year but in my year there were only 35 students on the biomed course in the first place.

Yeah far too few. And if everyone in that small pool of students is aiming high this will raise the bar and whilst you could get good enough grades which would get you in any other time, it may be the case you don't make the cut.

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by mochalatte

It's also misleading saying it's a shit option! A few do it each year but in my year there were only 35 students on the biomed course in the first place.

didn't say it was a "shit option" as you so well put it
but hey, if that's what you say...

as I said before, not easy to be motivted to be doing a course that you didn't want to do in the first place, and there are others who actually may want to do the biomed degree, so tis unfair, possibly insulting

anyway, i'm sure people are clever enough to make up their own minds

[Gizmo says -]

the 7 out of 50 quote came from a biomed.
i understand its been a lot less than 7 in previous years, according to biomeds from those years.

iu've not even startted to mention some of the ploys some your biomeds ave got up to in the past to claim that coveted transfer place, like not anding out past paper model answers to anyone else but there friends, 'iding books in the library when they are most needed and not preventing peers 'anding in their coursework by any emans necessary.

So i've done my research cheers.

biomed at georgies might make a good plan D at best, but it certainly NOT a good plan B.

[mochalatte]

Originally Posted by agneishd

didn't say it was a "shit option" as you so well put it
but hey, if that's what you say...

as I said before, not easy to be motivted to be doing a course that you didn't want to do in the first place, and there are others who actually may want to do the biomed degree, so tis unfair, possibly insulting

anyway, i'm sure people are clever enough to make up their own minds

If you read before you comment you will see that the quote I was replying to says, and I quote, 'It's a shit option'.

As for the others who want to do a biomed degree, I doubt their first choice would be St Georges. Every1 bar 2 ppl wanted to do medicine in my yeart. There are much better places to study biomed as St Georges focuses on their medics.

[mochalatte]

Originally Posted by Fonzie

There's nothing wrong with having a plan B but most medical/dental students and careers advisors and anyone who knows a thing or too about the admissions process at udnergraduate and graduate level will tell you that taking a place on a Biomedical Sciences course is not a good plan B. Maybe a plan C or D but certainly not a plan B.

If you just miss out on the grades (say ABB for an AAA offer) how on Earth is it a good idea to do a course like Biomed where you would need to score very high marks to even stand a chance of getting the interview to enter into Year 3 or if you muck up and get less than 2:1 you've effectively closed the door on a career in Medicine forever? Also, plenty of students with 1:1s are being left empty handed when applying through UCAS as graduates.

If you're reluctant to resit A-Levels and reapply having missed the grades (an easier option) then it says a lot about your dedication to Medicine as a course and career; giving up at the first hurdle and when the going gets tough.

Yeah George's don't consider resits but plenty of places do like Liverpool, Southampton, Peninsula, BSMS, UEA, Keele, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and nearly all will consider resits if the student has valid mitigating circumstances.

The Biomed route can be successful for some but examples of this are few and far between. Yes it is tougher for resit students to get in but you will find there is more success going down the resit route than there is with Biomed route and having known people who have got in as resits and people who have gone on to Biomed and ultimately been left empty handed, I stand by my comments.

The OP must be only 1 7/18 right? What is one year of your life? A small price to pay if it means in 6 years time you'll be coming out with the degree in the course you wanted to study and an open path into your cherished career.

Biomed is the degree equivalent of a poisoned challice, end of.

'end of' ?!! was that necessary?

[Fonzie]

Originally Posted by mochalatte

'end of' ?!! was that necessary?

Probably not but Biomed is certainly not the wisest of options and as you pointed out SGUL is probably not the best place to study the subject.

The fact that it is offered by so many unis at a varying level of entry requirements means that Biomed is only a good option at very few universities.

Imperial's requirements for Biomed are the same for Medicine; AAAb.

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by mochalatte

If you read before you comment you will see that the quote I was replying to says, and I quote, 'It's a shit option'.

As for the others who want to do a biomed degree, I doubt their first choice would be St Georges. Every1 bar 2 ppl wanted to do medicine in my yeart. There are much better places to study biomed as St Georges focuses on their medics.

hmm...but between our exchanges, there was no mention of "shit", so I wonder why you dragged it in?

no need to get nasty now

[Gizmo says -]

imperial biomed is probably worse than georges for biomed mind, lets not play possum wif that fact.

go sheffield for instance if you really want to do biomed.
if you dont then reapply.

[agneishd]

true there gizzy, imperial just costs more, and if one intends to go onto medicine, then keeping costs down should be a priority