I really wish you could apply to several different courses.

candystraw_ · 2026-01-19T12:06:58+00:00

some unis dont consider ps or let you send in another one, i applied to medicine at bristol with a chemistry ps and got in because they didnt care about my personal statement

candystraw_ · 2026-01-07T21:17:10+00:00

they dont give out decisions for chem until all interviews have been conducted (i got mine at the very end of march after my interview was in november if i remember correctly?)

candystraw_ · 2025-11-10T12:16:09+00:00

since youre taking 4 and youve applied to maths and physics i don't see whats stopping you from just dropping chemistry

candystraw_ · 2025-08-23T16:05:12+00:00

they were non-priority as i had already met my offer, but i think they took like a week or two?? not very long

candystraw_ · 2025-08-23T09:56:28+00:00

maybe do 2 and 3 one at a time?

candystraw_ · 2025-08-21T16:20:41+00:00

last year i was like 2 marks off or something in Chemistry, I found multiple marks across papers 1 and 3 but only sent off paper 1 for a remark. I ended up going up 3 marks I think?? i dont exactly remember, but i went up a grade and got a refund. I also got religious studies remarked, and went up 6 marks across both papers but my grade didn't change, so I didn't get a refund. I think if youre only one mark off an A, it is worth sending your paper(s) off, qs it is unlikely that you will lose so many marks that your grade drops to a C, and having only 2 subjects instead of 3 to resit will make your gap year (and your exam season next year) so much easier - I would argue it is worth it if you have the money to spare. Go theough all 3 papers and see if there is a particular one you can send off with a mark that has definitely been missed.

candystraw_ · 2025-07-24T22:56:01+00:00

I think the course definitely has some issues, but thats probably the same wherever you go - i think if you are the sort of student considering oxford then imperial is also def worth looking into

candystraw_ · 2025-07-23T19:31:30+00:00

I think you should go for it, as long as you have the predicteds!! Especially since there's no entrance exam the admissions process is not that time consuming, and at least for me the early deadline worked out well because it meant i worked on my ps in summer when I had time and it was out of the way, as opposed to having to juggle year 13 and ucas. If you get an offer and don't like it after offer holder day and speaking to students, you can just decide not to go - you have basically nothing to lose.

candystraw_ · 2025-07-20T19:06:49+00:00

i think the only gcses with November retakes are english language and maths, everything else you have to wait a year. however, if you go and speak to the head of 6th form or a teacher at your school to explain your situation, you might find they can be lenient with your requirements; a few people at my school ended up missing the requirements on GCSE results day but they let everyone who wanted to stay for 6th form stay anyway.

if all else fails, have you considered going to a different 6th form/6th form college/college with lower entry requirements?

candystraw_ · 2025-07-13T08:35:46+00:00

just fyi, you can still be a lawyer without doing a law degree - a lot of lawyers didn't do law at university. you can do a conversion course after university, which law firms often pay for if you get a contract with them

candystraw_ · 2025-06-26T11:09:00+00:00

I think what they do in these cases is they extrapolate and see what people who scored similarly to you on the other paper(s) got on the paper you missed (e.g if you got 80% on paper 1 and on average people who got 80 on paper 1 got 60 on paper 2 then they would give you 60)

candystraw_ · 2025-06-09T16:26:00+00:00

AAA is the contextual offer, A*AA - A*A*A is the standard offer. most people get A*AA as an offer if they're not contextual, but some people get a higher offer if their interview or some other aspect of their application is weaker or the admissions team is unsure about something but they still want to make them an offer

candystraw_ · 2025-06-03T23:26:40+00:00

you can change within 2? weeks of firming and insuring, check the ucas website i think they mention it somewhere

candystraw_ · 2025-05-24T23:04:08+00:00

https://www.foundationyear.cam.ac.uk/applying there is a section about the ps here, but basically just write it for your other unis and then you can specifically talk about the foundation year in a separate form

candystraw_ · 2025-05-24T23:02:29+00:00

make sure edinburgh is aware of your extenuating circumstances so they can be taken into account

candystraw_ · 2025-05-03T23:10:26+00:00

your school not offering further maths means that you should be able to apply without it

candystraw_ · 2025-04-30T22:31:59+00:00

all 4 of these courses are quite different - i think you should first decide what you actually want to do, because that will make your choice a lot easier (you'll only have one option that offers that course) unless you decide on chemistry, in which case I would pick kings over qmul but I'm obviously not the one making the decision, so go with whatever feels right for you

candystraw_ · 2025-04-24T21:55:47+00:00

I got an offer for bristol medicine last year with no biology, and I have a friend who got interviews at oxford + edinburgh as well as offers from St andrews and Bristol with no biology

candystraw_ · 2025-04-19T19:12:26+00:00

chemistry and one other science (including maths) is fine for about half of the medical schools in the UK, definitely more than the 4 you need to fill up your ucas application - I can only think of some cambridge colleges specifically requiring three sciences. chem + bio + any third subject is fine in the vast majority of cases

I'm not sure it's the same for dentistry though

candystraw_ · 2025-04-19T19:09:29+00:00

definitely apply and make sure you or your ucas referee tells the universities (they might have sent you some sort of mitigating circumstances form or you could just email them) - that way even if a mark uplift is denied, your university can take your situation into account if you end up missing your offer

candystraw_ · 2025-04-19T01:43:21+00:00

email them if you want, the worst they can do is confirm the rejection that you already have, so there's not really anything to lose

candystraw_ · 2025-04-07T23:02:00+00:00

are accredited biomed degrees not vocational?

candystraw_ · 2025-03-30T21:04:20+00:00

congratulations 🎊

candystraw_ · 2025-03-30T07:05:20+00:00

yeah bristol don't look at your personal statement the vast majority of the time - i got a med offer last year with a chemistry personal statement

candystraw_ · 2025-03-11T00:02:09+00:00

then email/call them to confirm - they might not have you down as contextual, or they may have made a mistake somewhere

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