American Acceptance to Cambridge

boomting
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:53:41 +0000

Like all international students, very low. This is because, due to the way funding works, the UK government severely limits spaces on medicine and dentistry courses for international students. It’s extremely competitive for UK students, let alone international students. The only medicine universities that exist outside this funding system are Buckingham and UCLan. However, these two courses are so new that they haven’t yet started teaching (!), they’ll likely only teach international students, and the universities themselves are not known for their academic rigour.

You will also need more, relevant and diverse work experience and volunteering, as what you have simply isn’t good enough.

I’d suggest checking out The Student Room - their medicine forum is fab.

You would also need to consider your career options - getting a residency in the US would be very difficult if not impossible, and I’m not sure what the visa situation would be like if you wanted to stay in the UK for your foundation years.

Think very carefully before you embark upon this path, and make sure you have back up options.