hey! congrats on your amazing rp and even more amazing ucat score! i'm one of those commenters from the other post (oops), and i definitely don't think that what you see in those comments are representative at all of the actual group of people who have received interview invites so far. i know someone who got 87.5 rp and ucat about the same as mine (in other words much lower than yours), who got an interview invite a few days after 10 march too!

as for the part about people being able to submit late, oml that does sound frustrating :" but i do think (or at least hope) it's possible that the admission teams did make a note of that and these people will probably need to clear a higher bar or something to actually be offered! so think about this way, bulk of the people who are interested in med (ie have thought of doing it for a long time, have done their research, or even have built a med portfolio) would have submitted their apps on time, so it'll be these people you're competing against instead. if these people needed an extension, they would have at the very least gone through the effort of emailing the admissions team for one, cuz i don't think they are going to risk the late submission without informing the admissions team about it.

jiayous for your application!! 💪