Can anyone help with these abstract patterns?

tres said:
Congrats chief!!! It feels good doesn't it? OCUK have collectively nailed it this year.

What results are they all asking for? Are you picking an insurance?
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AAA all of them

Although I got an email from Leicester saying that if I don't make the grades, they have no obligation to accept me, but would still consider giving me the place if they had a space available.

So basically, it's AAA or no medschool for me :p

Leicester will probably be my insurance, what about yours?
 
TheCenturion said:
AAA all of them

Although I got an email from Leicester saying that if I don't make the grades, they have no obligation to accept me, but would still consider giving me the place if they had a space available.

So basically, it's AAA or no medschool for me :p

Leicester will probably be my insurance, what about yours?
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Newcastle, Durham & HYMS have asked for 6 distinctions.
Manchester want overall distinction.

Therefore Manchester is the perfect insurance for me
 
I'm on the right path!

A class mate had an offer from Cambridge, who wanted distinctions in chem, bio, physics. They told him they don't care about epidemiology, maths, research project.

Now that's a good offer - halving his workload!
 
I remember my offers :)

Got them from Warwick, Bath, Southampton, Loughborough and Nottingham, all without an interview...

Shame I screwed up my a-levels, and ended up at Greenwich :(
 
tres said:
Offer from Durham - very happy!!!!

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Grats dude, I just wanna say that if you didn't intend on taking Durham as a choice it would have been more gentlemanly to withdraw prior to getting your decision back.

Not saying for myself as I'm already studying, but I know plenty of people when I applied a few years ago that didn't get a single offer and lost out on their dream.

As nice as it is to brag about getting a clean sweep, imo it's a poor way to start a career based around helping other people.
 
Jolteh said:
Grats dude, I just wanna say that if you didn't intend on taking Durham as a choice it would have been more gentlemanly to withdraw prior to getting your decision back.

Not saying for myself as I'm already studying, but I know plenty of people when I applied a few years ago that didn't get a single offer and lost out on their dream.

As nice as it is to brag about getting a clean sweep, imo it's a poor way to start a career based around helping other people.
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Surely it would not matter, because if the university had wanted them but had filled their places, then they would have been placed on the waiting list. Then surely by not accepting the offer, he'd be pushing people on the waiting list up.

I don't see how it makes a difference at all. If he doesn't take that place, then someone else has to :confused:
 
That's not how it works.

Say the university has 2000 applicants for 200 places (standard for medicine). They might interview 500, then offer places to 300 students, taking into account that a proportion won't get the necessary grades and others might choose to accept an offer from elsewhere. The amount of offers they give in excess of the places they have will be dependant on their typical offer acceptance rate in past years.

They're probably not going to get exactly 200 people, but they'll accept any amount within a certain margin (say 10%) before they take action and give places to students on the waiting list (if too few) or ask for volunteers to defer a year (if too many).

If a student withdraws their application prior to the offers going out, the invite that was going to go to them will be given to the student who scored next highest on the list, but would otherwise have received a rejection. If that student doesn't withdraw before the offers go out and instead just doesn't accept the offer when it is received then it won't be given to another student.

You see quite a few students that are obviously on track for 4 offers and have already received them from their favoured institutions and just hold out for bragging rights. Obviously that is their prerogative, but I know plenty of heartbroken applicants who didn't receive offers despite having the grades so I find it quite irritating and think it smacks a little of selfishness.
 
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Jolteh said:
Grats dude, I just wanna say that if you didn't intend on taking Durham as a choice it would have been more gentlemanly to withdraw prior to getting your decision back.

Not saying for myself as I'm already studying, but I know plenty of people when I applied a few years ago that didn't get a single offer and lost out on their dream.

As nice as it is to brag about getting a clean sweep, imo it's a poor way to start a career based around helping other people.
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I did enquire whether this was the case - but I was told that unless you pull out pre-interview stage, or then they wouldn't have re-allocated the offer, as it is already far through the offer stage and they take into consideration whilst making their # offers (which is far above their actual capacity).

If I pulled out pre-interview, then that would have been handed on to the next applicant. But at this stage, this is all taken into considering and would not affect any further interviews/offers handed out. They will still fill their max number of places regardless. I certainly wouldn't have held on for bragging rights if this wasn't the case and it would mean someone wouldn't have the opportunity.
 
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