Waiting for medical school offer to be sent out can be a very nerve wracking and anxiety inducing experience. Once you’ve finished your interviews, you could also be waiting between two weeks to six months to hear back from the medical schools you applied to.
This may lead to frequently engaging in Student Room forums, anxiously checking your emails, and constantly refreshing your UCAS application page. It can also feel disheartening when people you know have received offers while you’re still waiting in the dark.
Medical schools send offers at different times depending on their application timeline, including when they sent out interview invitations, when interviews were held, and formal decisions. Timelines can also vary year on year, depending on additional unforeseen circumstances.
To learn more about the general pattern of sending medical offers, keep reading.
General Pattern
As most medical schools carry out interviews between December and March, they often send offers from March onwards.
Of course there will be some exceptions. For example, Oxford and Cambridge complete interviews much earlier, in December, so they send medical school offers in January. However, some universities may not even have a set date or time period where offers are released, and instead will send out medical offers with little advanced notice.
Specific universities
University of Aberdeen
With interviews in Aberdeen taking part in dates between December and March, you can expect offers for Medicine in March or April.
Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin sends offers after January when interviews have finished.
Aston University
Aston has interviews in December and March so they will usually send offers after all the interviews have been completed.
University of East Anglia
East Anglia or Norwich’s Medical School send out offers in March.
Bart’s and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
After interviews that run from January to March take place, they usually send offers after March when interviews have finished.
University of Birmingham
Offers for Birmingham medical university offers come out in the month of March.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
With interviews taking place in January, Bristol generally releases interviews from January until April.
University of Bristol
Bristol send out offers after interviews are finished, which range between December and March.
University of Cambridge
After interviews take place in December and January, Cambridge send out offers for the medical school in the month of January.
Cardiff University
Cardiff’s medical school sends out offers after interviews take place between December and January.
University of Dundee
Dundee Medical school send out offers after interviews happen from December to January.
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh sends out medical school offers from March onwards.
University of Exeter
Medical interviews for Exeter take part in between December and March and they start sending out medical school offers from March onwards.
University of Glasgow
Glasgow‘s medical school send out offers from March onwards.
Hull York Medical School
Hull York send out medical school offers from February onwards.
Imperial College London
Imperial College gives out offers on a rolling basis after interviews have finished.
Keele University
Medical school offers from Keele will arrive from March onwards.
Kent and Medway Medical School
Kent and Medway give out medical school offers from March onwards.
King’s College London
King’s College London gives out offers much later during the month of May.
Lancaster Medical School
With interviews for Lancaster taking place from January to February, they start to send out offers from March onwards.
University of Leeds
Leeds start sending out offers from March onwards.
University of Leicester
Leicester start sending out offers from March onwards.
University of Liverpool
Liverpool starts to send offers from March onwards.
University of Lincoln
Lincoln normally disperse medical school offers between March and May.
University of Manchester
Manchester sends out offers from around March onwards.
Newcastle University
Newcastle’s medical school gives out offers around March and onwards.
University of Nottingham
Nottinghamshire medical school sends out offers around March onwards.
University of Oxford
Oxford send medical school offers in January.
Queen’s University Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast send out offers from April onwards.
University of Sheffield
Sheffield medical school offers are sent from March onwards.
University of Southampton
Southampton’s medical school gives offers from March onwards.
University of St Andrews
Saint Andrews send offers after they finish their interviews, usually after March.
St George’s, University of London
With interviews from St George’s happening between November and February, they send offers on a rolling basis after these interviews finish.
University of Sunderland
Sunderland send offers to applicants until May.
Swansea University
Swansea’s medical school offers are usually released in May.
University College London
Interviews for UCL take place from December to March, and offers are released after all interviews have been completed.
University of Warwick
Warwick is known to release medical school offers from January onwards.
However…
Release of medical school offers can change year on year and due to unexpected circumstances. So do try to be patient if the date where you expected to receive an offer passes and you are still waiting to hear anything. If the date passes and you still haven’t received a response, students are also able to email the admissions team to gain more information. Apart from this, checking with your friends or other applicants who you know have applied is also a useful way to track updates in regards to applications.
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