Reapplication to Medicine
What is reapplication?
If you are unsuccessful at applying for Medical school on your first attempt through UCAS (specifically, if you have been rejected from your 4 UCAS options), then you can access a variety of alternative options to secure a place at a medical school.
The additional routes are a means of ‘re-applying’ to medical school. Most applicants who apply for the first time are unsuccessful – usually between 70-85% in previous years. Most of these students give up, because they are unaware of the variety of options available to re-apply.
Gaining access to information on applying to medical school as a first-time applicant is hard enough; access to advice and guidance on all of the re-application routes is even more difficult.
However, if you decide to explore the re-application process, you will discover a huge range of additional routes that means you are twice as likely to obtain an offer to study medicine on your second attempt! If you still want to be a doctor, we are here to support you on your re-application journey.
When does the re-application process start?
Re-application starts as soon as you have been rejected from all 4 of your medical schools. That means that you do not have to wait until the next academic year to re-apply.
There are several options that you can explore even before the end of your current academic year, and if you are successful in these, you could find yourself starting medical school this September, just like everyone else who applied successfully on their first attempt.
Examples of these routes include, UCAS Extra, Clearing, applying to the Republic of Ireland or an accredited European Medical School.
We will explain all of these routes in detail at the Get into Medicine Re-application conference to help you make an informed decision about which route is best for you. Try to attend as early as possible so that you can take full advantage of some of these opportunities, which you can apply through right now!
Conference Agenda
- Who are Medic Mentor and what is the MM Reapplication Stream?
- Competition ratios for reapplicants.
- What went wrong with your 1st application?
- Ask for feedback from Universities.
- Do you still want to be a doctor?
- The 2 reasons why students don’t get into medicine.
- Reapplication Timeline.
- Gap Year Awards Programme.
- Republic of Ireland Applications and HPAT.
- UCAS Extra & UCAS Clearing.
- Applying to Study Medicine in Europe.
- Gap year and reapplying again via UCAS: what to do in your gap year, how this should be addressed in your UCAS application, universities that accept resits and review of the re-application timeline.
- What happens if you don’t get in after re-application? Access, Foundation and Transfer course options, private medical schools in the UK and the postgraduate medicine route.
- Re-application Support Programme.
- How to succeed if you fail the first time: a successful re-applicant’s journey!
Who should attend the Re-application conference?
This conference is great for students in 13/S6/Northern Irish 14 year groups and older, provided that you have been rejected from all 4 of your medical school choices once before through UCAS.
You can also attend if you are in your gap year right now, or studying a higher degree course at university and looking to pursue a postgraduate application to medical school.
Having a strong support network around you is invaluable, so although it is not compulsory for you to attend this conference with a parent or guardian, we encourage you to do so, because this will boost your chances of being accepted when re-applying.
Reapplication to Medicine
If you didn’t get into medicine the first time, don’t ever let you discourage you from applying again.
90% of all applicants to medicine do not get in the first time, that includes many practicing doctors
As a re-applicant, you multiple options for getting into medical school. Many students take a gap year, others reapply within a few months through UCAS Extra and UCAS Clearing, you can even opt to study medicine in Europe!
We have put together a free Get into Medicine Reapplication Conference for all students determined to follow their dreams of getting into medicine. We will show you the multiple ways you can reapply to medicine, including:
- Accessing and following university feedback
- Republic of Ireland Applications and HPAT
- UCAS Extra and UCAS Clearing
- Applying to study medicine in Europe
- Taking a gap year and reapplying through UCAS
We’re a community of doctors and medical students dedicated to equip you with the skills and resources to get into medicine. Join Chief Mentors Dr Mike and Dr Siva on Sunday 26th March from 9am – 1:30pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
Conference Agenda
- Who are Medic Mentor and what is the MM Reapplication Stream?
- Competition ratios for reapplicants.
- What went wrong with your 1st application?
- Ask for feedback from Universities.
- Do you still want to be a doctor?
- The 2 reasons why students don’t get into medicine.
- Reapplication Timeline.
- Gap Year Awards Programme.
- Republic of Ireland Applications and HPAT.
- UCAS Extra & UCAS Clearing.
- Applying to Study Medicine in Europe.
- Gap year and reapplying again via UCAS: what to do in your gap year, how this should be addressed in your UCAS application, universities that accept resits and review of the re-application timeline.
- What happens if you don’t get in after re-application? Access, Foundation and Transfer course options, private medical schools in the UK and the postgraduate medicine route.
- Re-application Support Programme.
- How to succeed if you fail the first time: a successful re-applicant’s journey!