Good enough for Medicine?

Thread Starter Good enough for Medicine? Follow 6 hours ago 6h ago Quote: Originally Posted by archibald300 Hi, I just received my GCSE results on Thursday. I achieved 9A*s and 2As (three of the A*s were grade 8s in Maths, Eng Lang and Eng Lit). My As were in French and History. I also have a C grade in FSMQ Additional maths. I hope to apply to a top university to study Medicine, but am worried whether these grades will be good enough. I understand a levels and the UKCAT/BMAT are more important but GCSEs, especially for medicine, are expected to be high. I go to a very selective Grammar so my results look vaguely average by comparison to the rest of the year. Ideally, Oxbridge is the aim, but I've heard they look at the 'proportion' of A* grades with many applicants having 100% of their grades at A*. Do you think my results would be a good foundation for a possible application to Oxford or Camb...
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