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they must have rounded up your score, happened with me tooKildareKing wrote: »when I add up the 3 section I got 184, however on both the hpat result sheet and the cao website it says that I got 185.
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Hi all you potential med undergrads So the LC points are out tomorrow I assume!? Here's my experience with LC and HPAT. I sat the HPAT in 2009 (Was the first year for the exam I think) at the age of 16 and scored in the 99th percentile (211pts). I was almost certain I would be ok for undergrad med but sadly I didn't get enough LC points to make that possible
So I was short overall. I hated the though of having to do the LC again so there was no way I was gonna go back to that. Thinking that I was still young at the time (17) I just went ahead with the plan of doing Graduate Medicine after my undergrad degree.
I accepted a course in UCD (Chemistry) in 2009 when it wasn't all omnibus but denominated. As most of you know you have to sit the GAMSAT (pure bit*h of an exam) to get into GradMed, which is the older brother of the HPAT. They're rather different exams and if some of ye are thinking of doing gradmed you'll see what I mean when the time comes to sit it! However, this is not to say it's impossible. Some lucky folk get a great score on their first go, some on their second and some on their 5th. You can sit the GAMSAT 2x in 1 year and similarly to the HPAT the score is valid for 2 years. Anyways its besides the point.
Now, 4 years later (2013), I completed my undergrad degree in Chemistry and scored in the 90th percentile (roughly the score you need to ensure a place in Dublin. Much easier to get a place in UL and UCC) on the GAMSAT. Was offered my first choice place in GradMed in UCD on Aug 1st and now I'm starting GradMed at the age of 21 in UCD So especially if you're young doing the LC and HPAT, don't be upset if you don't make it when the offers are out. Sure if you're 17 like me, you can be starting GradMed at the age of 21! (which is equivalent to 3rd year undergrad) which is the average age of a 3rd year undergrad. Difference is, you can be holding another degree too!! Graduate entry also gives you a chance to grow up and I never regretted going through this route one bit! Loved the whole experience and the bit of growing up I did before starting med school now.
My point is, do not be disheartened if you don't get undergrad medicine. In retrospect I think I might have been a bit too young to take undergrad med seriously. There is always an alternative route to get to where you want to be. If you really want it, you will get there. I say this because I hear of people taking multiple attempts at the HPAT and LC when you could be doing an Undergraduate degree instead and still progressing to medicine eventually instead of staying stationary (in terms of education) and just repeating the LC/HPAT. Hope this post helps some of ye who were hoping to get into medicine but didn't make it through the undergrad route (like me )
Congratz to all who do well on the LC tomorrow and or did well on the HPAT!
Best of luck to all of you with your results tomorrow, and I guess I might be seeing some of you guys/girls in UCD. It's a lovely and its the best university (because I said so ) [joke] and you'll love it. 0 -
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Well i dont think people are expecting a huge jump so probably less than 5 point increase for most if not all colleges. Hopefully you can go up a few pts with rechecksHoping for Med but sitting on 736. Will have to go down the recheck route to see if a few more points can be got! Is there any remote possibility that points will stay the same as last year?? 0 -
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Well done to everyone who got what they wanted yesterday and I'm sure you'll all be superb doctors.
But here's my predicament; I got 615 points yesterday, but a mere 166 in the HPAT two months ago. So what should I do? Should I accept my 5th choice which is dentistry and do that for a year and redo the HPAT? Or should I take the entire year out and work etc.? I'm really on the fence about this, so advice is appreciated. Also, people have told me I should apply to England as they look favorably on the LC and won't distinguish between A2s and A1s (I got 6 A1s and 2 A2s) which would put me at an advantage over there.
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TehFionnster wrote: »Well done to everyone who got what they wanted yesterday and I'm sure you'll all be superb doctors.
But here's my predicament; I got 615 points yesterday, but a mere 166 in the HPAT two months ago. So what should I do? Should I accept my 5th choice which is dentistry and do that for a year and redo the HPAT? Or should I take the entire year out and work etc.? I'm really on the fence about this, so advice is appreciated. Also, people have told me I should apply to England as they look favorably on the LC and won't distinguish between A2s and A1s (I got 6 A1s and 2 A2s) which would put me at an advantage over there.
Thanks in advance.
Why are you worried exactly? Don't your points add upto 781? O.o0 -
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TehFionnster wrote: »Well done to everyone who got what they wanted yesterday and I'm sure you'll all be superb doctors.
But here's my predicament; I got 615 points yesterday, but a mere 166 in the HPAT two months ago. So what should I do? Should I accept my 5th choice which is dentistry and do that for a year and redo the HPAT? Or should I take the entire year out and work etc.? I'm really on the fence about this, so advice is appreciated. Also, people have told me I should apply to England as they look favorably on the LC and won't distinguish between A2s and A1s (I got 6 A1s and 2 A2s) which would put me at an advantage over there.
Thanks in advance.
Well the question you'd need to ask yourself is do you actually want to do dentistry or is it just something you're doing for the sake of having a course to do until you get into medicine? Would you continue it on if you didn't get med next year? Also baring in mind that if you do dent for a year and switch you will incur a year of fees. If you could get a full time job for the year you could start saving for college, but then if you don't get med you could feel you wasted a year of your life for nothing!
On the issue of applying to the UK, in med courses the UK Universities don't necessarily look at the leaving cert favourably compared to the A-Levels (because we do 7 or 8 subjects with most of them having nothing to do with med in college, whereas the A-Levels do 3 subjects, med entrants normally do Chemistry, Physics and Biology, and because it's only 3 subjects they do them in more detail leaving them at an advantage!) some med schools don't even accept the Leaving Cert on it's own without a degree in biomed or the like! But your results are extremely good, all A's is a good help, so a Uni in the UK may well take you! However the UK Uni's look for more than just good results, they expect you to have experience in GP surgeries and hospitals and that you've a good history of volunteering to help vulnerable people such as helping out in a care home! So with your results you stand a very good chance and it's worth applying while you're at it at all, it's not a foregone conclusion that you'll get offered a place!0 -
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always next year 
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