Hi everyone! My name's Ari and welcome
to my youtube channel OhMyGhoshDoc
I am a medical student at UCL who has
just finished their first year and now
I'm going into my second year. If you have come across this video
you're probably wondering how to get
into medicine
through clearing. I was one of those
people that didn't meet their grades
last year. I was super lucky to be able to get a
place at St George's medical school
but I did not take that offer and I did
end up in UCL
so if you're a bit confused about that I
highly recommend checking out one of my
previous videos where I
explain all of it but today I am going
to be specifically talking about how
exactly I got in
through clearing and exactly explaining
the whole process.
So let's get straight on to the video. So
luckily in the past two years
medical schools have gone into clearing
which is really great news.
First of all, speaking honestly getting
in through clearing is
so difficult but if I did it, you guys
can do it too.
If you are on this video it shows that
you're taking the time to do some
research but I would definitely
recommend doing some more.
Clearing acts on a first-come
first-served basis if you apply later
you're more likely to not get
shortlisted for an interview so
make sure you guys do your research it's
really really important. There's some
important information down in the
description box below
or you can go check out my Instagram
page where I will be posting a lot of
related stuff.
Last year I did my research two days
before results day and I genuinely would
not recommend that because
I was just faffing around everywhere on
actual results day.
Different universities open up their
clearing on different dates
so St George's is already open so for
instance if you've already got
IB results you can apply to St
George's
from now. For other universities they
open on a level results day
when I had my results day I went on UCAS
and I saw
that I didn't get my offer then I
declined my
insurance offer. That automatically put
me into clearing
so I had a list of numbers and websites
that I had to go on
and call so I would definitely recommend
getting those together
in the days leading up to results day.
I called St George's I was left on hold
for an hour
and in the meantime on another phone
Anglia Ruskin had
an online portal where you could apply
and then you just wait for their
callback
and at the same time, I think Lancaster
had an online portal but
I genuinely can't remember different
unis have different systems on how
they're getting your information but I
would definitely say make sure you have
your own phone
your mom's phone and your dad's phone at
hand so you can
manage all of your calls. These
universities will be asking for very
specific things, things like your GCSEs
your UCAT your a-level results
for the UCAT specifically, they ask you
what exactly you got in every single
section as well so you have to find that
piece of paper
and you have to keep it next to you. Lancaster University is
a bmat university but on results day
they asked me for my ucat school and not
my bmat score
if you haven't taken the bmat you can
still apply to BMAT universities.
Something else as well is that you can
apply to these universities
without necessarily meeting the entry
requirements. St George's,
they ask for your a-levels to be three
A's or above
but I know that when I was at the
interview there were people that had
lower grades for instance
A*AB and I'm not in contact with
any of these people so I don't know if
they got
in, it definitely means that you can
still get an interview and
i imagine that they would give you a
conditional offer
where you need to reset one of those a
levels to get into medicine for the
following year
if you don't meet the entry requirements
still apply. After you've done all of the
applying and
you just have to sit and wait they will
get back to you last year
results day was on thursday and i
heard back
from St George's that very day Anglia
Ruskin the day after
if you managed to get an interview
congratulations this is where
the competition really really hit i
would say that the interview questions
at st george's were definitely not
out of blue any interview that you have
will be exactly like the normal
interviews
that they give throughout the year i
prepared for my interview in two days
go check on my instagram where i will be
posting
exactly what you need to do to be able
to prepare for your interview
i think if you have to go through
clearing the main thing that you have to
remember is that you have to have to
stay calm
and composed when you are applying
and you're just waiting and waiting to
hear back from them and they haven't got
back to you
and you're just sitting there and the
hours are just going by and you have no
idea whether you've gotten or not
i know it's it's awful just waiting but
um genuinely genuinely the the people
that are working
so hard to make sure that they can get
through all the students
so don't worry ultimately all you can do
is try your best in the situation
you can't you can't fall at the last
hurdle because
you've made it so so far but genuinely
as i said if i can do it you can do it
too
i hope that was an informative video on
clearing and
something that you haven't really seen
before around youtube
if you have any more questions put them
down in the comments section below and i
will reply to them
or you can message me on my instagram
which is oh my gosh doc
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and some more application tips good luck
for results today don't stress out now
enjoy these last couple of days thank
you for watching and
i will see you guys very very soon bye
