How do you choose which medical school to apply to?

Choosing which medical schools to apply to (Oxbridge or not, course style, location).

Axis: pick by whether the course suits you ... pick by prestige or odds

Answers by date: 5 records in 5 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2018), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2018-05-29	Ali	Whether to apply to aspirational or safe medical schools depends on whether the aim is medicine or one school: Ali aimed for Cambridge and applied to Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and one more; to become a doctor, safer options make sense.	Live Stream - Hangout 00:12:05
2018-05-07	Ali	Ali advises applicants not to look at the admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford colleges, which he calls pretty irrelevant.	Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:49:49
2018-04-02	Ali	Ali tells ethnic-minority students that Cambridge has many societies, such as PakSoc, India Soc, Bangla Soc and Somali Soc, open to anyone, and that its being mostly white alone should not stop them applying.	Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 00:04:20
2018-02-17	Ali	Ali advises reapplicants to research medical schools in advance and apply tactically: some accept retakes or gap years and some do not, and friends with an average UKCAT score had applied where scores in the 700s were needed.	Medicine Application - No offers? 00:04:01
2017-10-01	Ali	Ali says the only thing that should decide whether to apply to Cambridge for medicine is whether the course suits you: if you enjoy the academic side and would cope with intense terms, apply.	Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes 00:07:58