u/MarketCute

As the title says- my two top contenders are imperial medicine and kcl medicine. i’m a gap year student, and have my final grades, so it’s not like i can have one as a firm & the other as insurance. i feel really torn, but my main concerns are:

for imperial -fear that the intercalated year is wasted -worry about social life/fitting in, with imperial’s extreme academic rep

for kings -less prestigious/highly ranked for med -teaching supposedly is terrible in y1/2, course structure doesn’t make as much sense (from what i’ve been told) -i don’t know how accessible the ‘fun’ uni life will be to me anyway, given my course load

and of course, i have no idea about their associated hospitals: which has better teaching, the culture at each, and so on. i’ve looked at the cqc ratings for each trust but i don’t really have the context to understand their relevance.

i’d really appreciate any input, because im having an impossible time deciding 🫩

edit: i am an international student, so i may or may not be able to stay within the nhs, though i’d like to

As the title says- my two top contenders are imperial medicine and kcl medicine. i’m a gap year student, and have my final grades, so it’s not like i can have one as a firm & the other as insurance. i feel really torn, but my main concerns are:

for imperial -fear that the intercalated year is wasted -worry about social life/fitting in, with imperial’s extreme academic rep

for kings -less prestigious/highly ranked for med -teaching supposedly is terrible in y1/2, course structure doesn’t make as much sense (from what i’ve been told) -i don’t know how accessible the ‘fun’ uni life will be to me anyway, given my course load

and of course, i have no idea about their associated hospitals: which has better teaching, the culture at each, and so on. i’ve looked at the cqc ratings for each trust but i don’t really have the context to understand their relevance.

i’d really appreciate any input, because im having an impossible time deciding 🫩