*Everything HPAT and Medicine 2015*

yoyojc wrote:

Hi, I'm hoping someone could help me out!

I'll probably just miss out on Med this year due to my HPAT but I did get 6 A's in the Leaving Cert

Can I use these grades which I got this year to apply to the UK for next year?
I'd really appreciate any help

Repeat your hpat too, i recall a user on here saying that british universities rarely accept repeat students. But i'm not sure if they would count you as one if you haven't done the ukcat yet? Cover all your bases, 6A's is a solid foundation

yoyojc wrote: »

Hi, I'm hoping someone could help me out!

I'll probably just miss out on Med this year due to my HPAT but I did get 6 A's in the Leaving Cert

Can I use these grades which I got this year to apply to the UK for next year?
I'd really appreciate any help

how many combined points do you have atm if you don't mind my asking?

Hey need advice , hpat didn't really go as planned getting the. 67th percentile, and with the LC I'm not sure how to feel with 570, however am getting 2 subjects rechecked which I'm almost certain are wrongly marked or hoping! Which could manage to give me 590 (bets case scenario) , anyway I'm just wondering should I repeat and attempt to max my LC points and an improved hpat or if I get biomed in ucd to just do that for a year and repeat the hpat? Also would my amount of LC points not be enough for the English med courses?

Any feedback would be much appreciated!!

Just to say best of luck to you all, it's been a hell of a ride ! Fingers and toes crossed for us all

DaveMc90 wrote: »

Hey need advice , hpat didn't really go as planned getting the. 67th percentile, and with the LC I'm not sure how to feel with 570, however am getting 2 subjects rechecked which I'm almost certain are wrongly marked or hoping! Which could manage to give me 590 (bets case scenario) , anyway I'm just wondering should I repeat and attempt to max my LC points and an improved hpat or if I get biomed in ucd to just do that for a year and repeat the hpat? Also would my amount of LC points not be enough for the English med courses?

Any feedback would be much appreciated!!

I wouldn't bother repeating the leaving cert. You can only get a maximum of 9-11 more points for all that effort. So not worth it.

I repeated the hpat. I had originally decide to do biomed for the year and repeat but dropped out after a few weeks. I got a job and worked instead, which I would definitely recommend doing.

Firstly, it will be way easier to get a job or keep your old job when you go into first year uni, so many student struggle to find a job while at uni.

It gives you loads of time to focus on studying the hpat, rather than splitting study time with a course you are only doing to fill in time.

And you will have loads of money to to whatever you want, I went backpacking around Asia and Australia for 4 months.

Also I repeated the hpat this year, and went from 65%ile to 93%ile. Tbh, I didn't actually study much more this year than I did last year. I think the major difference was that I wasn't stressed by the mocks, submitting art portfolios and all the other things going on at the time of the hpat when you are doing your leaving cert. So again, I definitely wouldn't recommend repeating.

I recommend taking a gap year and getting a job. Do the hpat in march and decide what to do from March to September whether it's continue working or going on holiday etc.

The only thing about working is make sure you get a job you like. I had an brilliant gap year working 3 jobs I loved, whereas my friend took a gap year working in retail and hated it.

Looks like im going to college 🙊

Pidge96 wrote: »

Trinity and Galway are 733* and 723* I think

Where are you getting the number for the points from?

OMGeary wrote: »

Guitar girl got a newspaper, check the other thread

Which other thread?

Officially heading to ucd, anyone else? I'm worried about the point increase, plenty of people on here were at the lower end of the spectrum for last year's points

SC2020 wrote: »

Im on 735 and have UCD first and RCSI second. should i accept RCSI straight away or should I take a gamble and try to get in on the second round offers?

You can accept RCSI at this point and still accept UCD if you get it in round 2. If this was to happen it would cancel the RCSI acceptance and then you get UCD.

SC2020 accept RCSI and you can change to ucd if u get it on second round offers looks like I got nuig!:D

mlfaw wrote: »

Which other thread?

Official offers thread

Anyone going trinity ?

mlfaw wrote:

What are the chances of Galway going down a point in the next round, as that's all I need.

Same problem