Oxbridge Admissions Tutoring- Uniadmissions, Medicmind etc.
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Hi,
We have started looking into how worthy would it be to get our son help with admission into medical university, Oxbridge included.
We have come across a company called Uniadmissions that we got rather excited about but after long conversations have started feeling confused and conflicted rather than convinced we should go ahead and spend a significant amount of money with them - we were quoted £6,500 for a course of 2 and a half years, Head start programme in Year 11 and Premium Programme in Year 12 and towards the application process.
Our son is currently in year 10, academically very able and achieving (top 5% in his year group) but we are aware that getting a place in a top medical university or even Oxbridge is difficult and would love to support him but not sure how. None of these companies is endorsed by official organisations and there is all sorts of feedback online.
Has anyone been through the whole process of choosing a medical university, deciding whether to try Oxbridge and how did you approach it?
Has anyone used an Admissions tutoring company, if yes - which one and why?
Thank you in advance!
We have started looking into how worthy would it be to get our son help with admission into medical university, Oxbridge included.
We have come across a company called Uniadmissions that we got rather excited about but after long conversations have started feeling confused and conflicted rather than convinced we should go ahead and spend a significant amount of money with them - we were quoted £6,500 for a course of 2 and a half years, Head start programme in Year 11 and Premium Programme in Year 12 and towards the application process.
Our son is currently in year 10, academically very able and achieving (top 5% in his year group) but we are aware that getting a place in a top medical university or even Oxbridge is difficult and would love to support him but not sure how. None of these companies is endorsed by official organisations and there is all sorts of feedback online.
Has anyone been through the whole process of choosing a medical university, deciding whether to try Oxbridge and how did you approach it?
Has anyone used an Admissions tutoring company, if yes - which one and why?
Thank you in advance!
Hi all, thank you very much for all your replies!
We are sensible people that believe that our son should 1. Study medicine if he's got a true calling and conviction for it, we are perfectly aware how hard it is. 2. Not because he is our boy, but he truly is a superbly intelligent and ridiculously hard working young adult. He started saying he wants to study medicine 12 years ago when I (his mother) survived cancer by miracle. 12 years later, we're almost convinced that he wants this to be his path in life. 3. He is quietly ambitious but very sensible. And so are we. The priority here is that he makes the right choice, whether Oxbridge is even a consideration is unclear yet. 4. No medics in the family, we feel rather lost to help him with advice, £6,500 is a ridiculous amount of money, however if we somehow were convinced that he will benefit from reliable expert help and advice to achieve his dream, of which we feel he is worthy, we would do our best to support him in anyway like most committed parents would.
This whole thing feels a little bit like the entrance exams for Grammar Schools (he goes to one). You know your child is capable of sitting the 11+ and passsing it but you can't help him with mock papers yourself, everyone else is tutored, so you get a tutor being scared that if you don't he'll end up with unfair advantage and jeopardise his chances of passing.
Thank you all so very much once again and please, keep the good advice coming.
We are sensible people that believe that our son should 1. Study medicine if he's got a true calling and conviction for it, we are perfectly aware how hard it is. 2. Not because he is our boy, but he truly is a superbly intelligent and ridiculously hard working young adult. He started saying he wants to study medicine 12 years ago when I (his mother) survived cancer by miracle. 12 years later, we're almost convinced that he wants this to be his path in life. 3. He is quietly ambitious but very sensible. And so are we. The priority here is that he makes the right choice, whether Oxbridge is even a consideration is unclear yet. 4. No medics in the family, we feel rather lost to help him with advice, £6,500 is a ridiculous amount of money, however if we somehow were convinced that he will benefit from reliable expert help and advice to achieve his dream, of which we feel he is worthy, we would do our best to support him in anyway like most committed parents would.
This whole thing feels a little bit like the entrance exams for Grammar Schools (he goes to one). You know your child is capable of sitting the 11+ and passsing it but you can't help him with mock papers yourself, everyone else is tutored, so you get a tutor being scared that if you don't he'll end up with unfair advantage and jeopardise his chances of passing.
Thank you all so very much once again and please, keep the good advice coming.
Hi everyone! I can not possibly thank you enough for your replies, very informative, first hand experiences and do appreciate the humour too! All of you seem to be reiterating how we feel about it. The thoughts of spending £6,500 is completely forgotten for now. The temptation of James trying for Oxbridge is still there! We actually had 3 beautiful days in Cambridge last year and he fell in love with it - both as a place and what we saw from a guided tour around the university. Oxford is next on the list as soon as the dreaded Corona allows.
Thank you all once again, there is lots of grains of wisdom in your posts, so please, keep them coming!
Thank you all once again, there is lots of grains of wisdom in your posts, so please, keep them coming!
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