What should you do if you get no offers for medicine?
What a medicine applicant should do after rejection by every medical school (reapplying, reviewing the application, gap years, other routes).
Axis: review the application and reapply … take another route into medicine or another career
Concept: Personal statement
Answers by date: 6 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2018, 2019), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-14 | Ali | To a medicine applicant with no offers, Ali says rejoice: take a gap year and develop skills, hobbies and yourself while friends at university are not gaining them. | Valentine’s Day Live Stream 00:31:35 |
| 2018-08-20 | Ali | Ali had never appreciated that studying medicine in Europe is a legit option, but Abdullah has sold him on it; he will send people who message him on Instagram after missing their offers Abdullah's way. | Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide 00:30:52 |
| 2018-08-20 | Abdullah | Abdullah says that without a UK offer there is no point looking into other careers if you have the option of studying medicine in Europe. | Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide 00:04:26 |
| 2018-08-06 | Ali | Ali sums up the advice for medicine reapplicants as having a plan of action and making the absolute most of the gap year. → refers to Medicine Application - No offers? | Reapplying to Medicine (UK) - A comprehensive guide 00:28:19 |
| 2018-08-06 | Anton | Anton advises finding out what was wrong with your medicine application: his senior tutor emailed the four universities he had applied to for feedback, and only one replied. | Reapplying to Medicine (UK) - A comprehensive guide 00:04:23 |
| 2018-02-17 | Ali | Ali advises reapplicants to medicine to go through every part of their application with friends who got in and students in the years above, and ask where the weak points were: personal statement, work experience or interviews. | Medicine Application - No offers? 00:02:33 |