Rejection

So I've received my first pre-interview rejection. It hasn't actually been updated on Track yet, but I got an email saying that if I hadn't received an interview by last Friday then it was 'most likely a rejection'.

Obviously, when I first found out I was really upset, I don't like rejection and I was really disappointed and felt as though I'd failed or something. But then I realised that I can't complain - I've had two interviews, at my two top choices and some people haven't had any interviews at all. Two interviews is more than I ever expected, so I'm happy!

I'm just focussing on my A levels now, trying to get my best grades. I have mocks coming up in about a month so I need to start revising for them. I'm trying to distract myself as much as possible so that I can stop constantly thinking about how long it is until March!

Good luck with all of your applications, and try not to dwell on everything too much!:)

Waiting...

All of this waiting for offers/interviews/rejections is so annoying:( I'm constantly checking my emails, and always disappointed when I only find emails from The Student Room or Twitter.

I wish that Medicine offers were given out earlier, I hate all this stress and uncertainty!

March can't come soon enough.

Interview!

This is slightly late but I thought I'd just update you on the fact that I received an invitation to an interview on the 19th December, the day before my birthday! I was literally so so so happy and my hands were shaking once I found out. At the time when I find out I was with a group of medical school applicants because we'd all gone to a lecture together, so it was quite exciting as they could all really understand how much it meant.

My interview is on the 7th January, so in a few days time. I've been working soooo hard because I really really want to get into this university as I literally love it so much, and I don't want to mess this up. I'm quite glad that I've already had an interview in a similar style to the interview I'm having, as it means I know what to expect and maybe I won't be as nervous? (as if).

Some things that I have done to prepare for my interview are:

1. Read the BMJ and the BBC Health news pages, and if I've spotted any headlines on newspapers I've read those articles too. Literally this will save your life, because in my interview I had before I mentioned so much of what I'd read.
2. Reflected on work experience. Really think about your work experience and how it'll make you a better doctor, and why it's made you want to medicine in the first place! You must have loved something about it, otherwise you wouldn't be applying.
3. Gone through my personal statement and highlighted anything that they could ask me questions on and researched and thought about my answers to these questions.
4. Used a medical school interview book and looked at every question and read it through, and read through all of my notes that I made from this book for my previous interview
5. Gone onto YouTube and watched all of their medical school interview tips videos (especially the ethical scenario ones - these are soooo helpful)
6. Searched ethical scenarios on Google and tried to figure out what I would say myself. As well as that, the GMC has a really good interactive ethics program called GMPiA which really helped me to think about more day-to-day ethical scenarios than euthanasia.

I reaaaaally hope that this is enough to get me into medical school, I want to get in so much! Keep your fingers crossed for me!