Application Profiles

[the_slob]

Jeepers you guys have all done alot for your age!

School: Standard Grades: 6 1's, a 2 & a 3 (Music @ Tech Studies)

Highers: 2 A's in English and Physics & 2 B's in Chem & Maths (off school for 5 months due to illness)

Edinburgh University: Passed 1st year biochem' (Sick of blowing up pipettes and wanted to be less geeky for a while!)

Glasgow University: MA Sociology & Anthropology 2:1 (1 Mark of a 1st damnit!)

Extra-curricular: Captain school golf team, golf at a national level, part-time job during school, Left school 5th year while still 16 to venture into wide, scary world..
Member of golf committee in 4th year at uni, worked all through uni in various business', play guitar to a fairly high level, ran Loch Ness Marathon last year, First aid trained and volunteering with the Red Cross, Rock-climb, Munro-bag, Read etc.

Work Exp.: Worked as a nursing auxiliary since July 2005 at local hospital as surgical relief, giving great insight into surgery of all sorts plus ENT and Oncology, Met lots of doc's and nurses, found out what it is all about: BTW it's quite stressful for anyone thinking it was going to be at all plain sailing, particularly for the poor SY1's, now the proud owner of the BMA's guide to prescription drugs since yesterday!

There you go thats me. Not much but having to work throughout degree inhibited me from doing alot of extra-curricualr stuff at uni. Drank quite alot though so its partly my fault

[kate0904]

GCSEs: 7A*s (enlish lang, lit, french,german, double science, maths) and 2As(music and history - 3 marks off on each i think)

AS: 4As (biology, chemistry, maths, physics)

A2s: AAA (biology, chemistry, maths)

Extra Curricular: st john ambulance - full first aid certificate + manual handling + medical gases certification + NCO, grade 8 violin, working on grade 8 piano, various orchestras (including leading school orchestra), school council, school listening service, etc.

Work Experience / finding out more about medicine: Medlink, Medsim, 1 year work exp at a vets, 1 wk on a ward, 1 wk work observation placements, 2 trips to romania working in various institutions, st john duties

Applied 2006:
Nottingham: interviewed 2/12/05, rejected officially 11/04/06 apparently i'm not empathetic...
St George's: interviewed 6/12/05, rejected 15/12/05 no extra feedback given
Edinburgh: rejected 13/03/06, not enough A*s at GCSE, too many applicants and apparently only average extracurricular activities
UEA: interviewed 10/04/06, AAB offer 11/04/06, they thought i'm empathetic! CONDITIONAL FIRM

Offers: Charles University Prague, conditional on completing a levels - not taking that up though

[pilly84]

I'll try to remember - I applied in 2003!

GCSEs: 7 A*s, 1 A, 1 B - English Lang, English Lit, Maths, Double Science, History, Welsh, Music (A), Art (B)

A levels: Biol (A), Chem (A), History (A), Music (A)

Music: Piano (grade 8), Clarinet (grade 7), Violin (grade 5), Theory (grade 5)

Extracurricular: Orchestra, wind band, choir, Deputy Head Girl, team leader of team that won Engineering Education Scheme Wales.

Work experience: 1 week in a District General Hospital, 2 days in a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic, voluntary work at a youth club.

All that plus a whole lot of waffle = my personal statement! lol

Cardiff: Offer - Firm
Bristol: Offer - Insurance
Manchester: Offer - Declined
Southampton: Offer - Declined

[wanabanana]

Wow Pilly you got 4 offers! Very rare!

[hellybelly1]

I'm very impressed with what everyone's been doing. There's no way I'd have found time for all that when I was at school (many years ago now). I'm a graduate applicant, and I guess graduates tend to have more varied profiles.

'O' Grades (yes, it was that long ago, Standard Grades hadn't been invented): 7 1's (maths, arithmetic, chemistry, physics, economics, French, English), a 2 (Latin) and a 3 (Italian)

Highers: 5 As (maths, economics, chemistry, biology, English)

CSYS: 2 Bs (Maths III and economics) and a C (Maths II) - I'd already got into university so I stopped working

Undergraduate degree: MA Psychology (2.1), St Andrews

Postgraduate Degree: PhD Neuroscience, Cambridge

I've worked in academia for the last 7 years or so.

Extracurricular (can it still be called this for graduates?): running, horse-riding, reading-group member, hillwalking

Work experience: 2 hours weekly volunteering in local hospital geriatric ward; WRVS; day at psychiatric clinic; trip round psychiatric hospital

I've applied to Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and UEA, and I've received an unconditional offer from Aberdeen but heard nothing from the others.

[pilly84]

Must have been my dazzling smile! <- see!

But seriously, its probably got harder since back in the day!

Hey, congratulations on your interview at Cardiff. I (and one of my mates) are actually doing the Cardiff tour that day (you know, around the university and hospital) so you should definitely come to that! I'll be the female one (since the other person doing it is called Dai!)

[little_miss_phonics]

i would just like to point out to anybody applying next year that work experience at one of the various 'vitalise' homes around the uk is absolutely bulletproof. you stay there for a week, look after one or two individuals, (who are normally mentally or physically disabled - it's not exactly a walk in the park at times!), meet a load of cool new people (mostly other medical applicants) and learn a lot about dealing with people with disabilities. plus, it looks absolutely amazing on your ucas form. i did it, and i've got offers from my second and first choice, having waxed lyrical about it in my oxford interview's "so, what do you know about dealing with physical or mental disability?" question.

and they're always desperate for volunteers.

I totally agree - i had a great time and it looks brilliant on the ucas! meeting lots of cool ppl was definitely the best part.

[little_miss_phonics]

Ok, heres my profile:

GCSE's: 3A* (Triple science), 7 A (Engx2, Maths, Stats, German, Sociology, R.E.) 1B (Art)

AS Levels: Chemistry (A) Human Biology (A) Psychology (A) Archaeology (A)

A Levels: Chemistry (A) Human Biology (A) Psychology (A)

Work experience: 2 weeks in German heart hospital watching heart surgery, on wards, echocardiography, cardiac catheterisation etc! Work as a care assistant full time, volunteered with Vitalise for a week, 1 week in local hospital in dif departments, Medsim.

ECA's: Volleyball, tabletennis, piano, reading, drawing, socialising.

[Jason27]

GCSE 9A*s, 2 As

AS - 4As - Biology Chemistry Maths French

A2 - 4 predicted As (did A-level maths last year, got A, that's included in those 4 predicted As)

BMAT score - 6.4, 6.4, 9

extra curric - music - performance diplomas in piano and bassoon, house music captain in school, orchestras, bands etc

sailing - race dinghies and yachts, as well as instructing to adults and children both paid and voluntarily

duke of edinburgh

work experience - week work shadowing in a hospital in various departments, voluntary clerical work with a GP

[Starry_eyed]

GCSE: 10 A*s - Doube Science, Maths, Eng Lit, Eng Lang, Music, French, Spanish, Systems and Control, R.S.
AS: AAAA - chem, bio, maths, french.
A2: AAAAA predicted, chem, bio, maths, french and general studies (not that the latter counts).
Extra curric: Piano (grade 7). Yoga. Travelling abroad (not really extra-curric), socialising
Work Experience: shadowing local GP, once a week, and work experience in local hospital for several days, including working on wards shadowing SHO - during recent summer holidays

Applied to:
Oxford - Rejection w/o interview
Manchester: interview held on the 9th Dec
Newcastle: confirmation
Liverpool: confirmation.