Reserve list candidates

**lollie22** · 16-03-2010, 05:03 PM

Just withdrew my place at the selection centre coz i have an unconditional from Glasgow (yay!!). The lady said that there is 1 person left on the reserve list so you'll probably hear from them pronto as my date was 25.03.10 @ 12.15.

Good luck every1!!!

**GenericName** · 16-03-2010, 08:51 PM

Only 1 person? Haha...insane! Repeat performance of last year it looks like. Do Barts not get pissed that, because the Warwick selection is so late, loads of really good candidates pull out before they even get a chance to see 'em?

**FutureDrH** · 16-03-2010, 11:06 PM

Hi everyone,

Just to point out, i'm in first year and only know of 2-3 people who got places from the reserve list - so don't count your chickens before they've hatched!! that said, i think once you're at the selection centre you do have a pretty good chance of getting an offer.
as for all the 'really good candidates' pulling out before interviews i can't say i really agree, many of the people in my year got offers from all 4 choices!
Good luck everyone who is going. Remember - just be yourself!

Originally Posted by GenericName

Only 1 person? Haha...insane! Repeat performance of last year it looks like. Do Barts not get pissed that, because the Warwick selection is so late, loads of really good candidates pull out before they even get a chance to see 'em?

**GenericName** · 17-03-2010, 04:30 AM

True but a lot of graduates get 4 offers... but a lot of the better people are pretty likely to have an offer waaay before end of March, so why go to the stress of doing the selection centre eh?

Unless the only GEP places you applied for happen to be Barts and Warwick

eheh.

**FutureDrH** · 17-03-2010, 09:54 PM

getting an offer before attending the selection centre doesn't make you a better candidate. different plaes are looking for different attributes from candidates, which is why despite having a joint interview for Barts and Warwick you wont necessarily get an offer for both. Having such a late selection centre does mean that certain people wont bother turning up, but that absolutely does not mean that all the better candidates end up elsewhere.

**GenericName** · 17-03-2010, 10:55 PM

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this. Although a decent number of good candidates will want Warwick no matter what and will ultimately attend the interview regardless, evidence from this forum and elsewhere seems to show that a lot of the good candidates are getting offers for other GEP places before Warwick even interview them and subsequently Warwick miss out on these people.

It stands to reason that better candidates are likely to be interviewed earlier and more likely to get a place at an earlier date than other candidates. Assuming these people don't have their hearts set on Warwick, it seems illogical to attend a pretty extensive selection centre when they have a place elsewhere. Therefore surely this prevents a reasonable number of people ever being seen by Warwick (and consequently Barts)?

Perhaps I'm completely wrong and the people who get offers pre-selection centre are in fact NOT edging towards the better end of the spectrum and just got lucky...but then if that's the case, we may as well not interview anyone and pick names out of a hat.

**Carter2010** · 18-03-2010, 12:45 AM

Perhaps medical schools should proceed in the same way as law courses (GDL and LPC) where all offers are issued by all the course providers on the same pre-published day. It would go some way to reducing the stresses people have of seeing others get interviews / offers but having no decision made on their application.

**GenericName** · 20-03-2010, 08:27 PM

Spindoctor, you make a good point!

Carter, a lady at Barts told us they were hoping some sort of system like that would come about based on the "success" of the Barts-Warwick centre. However...she also suggested that in the future maybe people will only attend 1 assessment for all 4 places and the universities will make their choices from there. Not too keen on the 1 assessment idea, but I like your idea of releasing results on the same day! I know before I got my first interview (and also before I got my first offer, after being interviewed) it was horrible hearing other people getting offers and I'd got nothing! At the end of the day it made no difference, but it just would have been nicer not to have months of thinking.....shit, I haven't got a place!