UCAS Stress

Hello!
If you are serious about Medicine you will have been embarking on the UCAS process by now, here are some things you should know:

• For Medicine you need to apply by October 15th
• You should have started your personal statement by now
• If you have no work experience, get some and write about it in the past tense
• You can only apply to four medical courses
• Apply for a backup subject - this does not reduce your commitment to Medicine
• Think carefully about your backup choice e.g. Birmingham medical science sometimes offer people a place on their medical course, Bradford clinical science sometimes offers people the chance to do medicine at Leeds after a year
• Start registering for BMAT/ UKCAT (if you have not already done so)
• Prepare for BMAT and UKCAT (UKCAT especially!! Needs doing soon)

The things above are quite urgent, and if there's anything you haven't done on there, do it now.

Things for the future:

• Prepare for interview - more on this in my next post!!
• Filling out the UCAS form - careful about exam boards, grades etc - all easy to slip up on! This may take a while so it's easier to do it sooner rather than later
• Pass your personal statement round to as many people as possible, the more times it's checked, the better
• Finalise your decisions about which courses you are going to apply for
• APPLY - ultimately you want to do this soon, admissions tutors will have more to read later, so the earlier you apply, the more time they'll have to look over yours

Just a few more things to stress you all out about

Good Luck!!