Manchester vs St George's

Manchester's published UCAT threshold for home applicants is around 2030, while St George's sits at approximately 1950.

The 80-point spread is within year-on-year noise — for most applicants the two thresholds are effectively interchangeable, and other selection factors (GCSE weighting, interview score) will dominate.

Contextual / widening-participation cut-offs differ — Manchester: ~1890+ /2700 WP+ (2025 entry cut-off ≈ 1890); St George's: not separately disclosed. Eligible applicants should weight this heavily when choosing.

Manchester requires AAA including Chemistry and Biology.

St George's requires AAA including Chemistry and Biology.

Both demand the same A-Level grade band, so academic prediction is unlikely to differentiate your application between them — provided you meet the required subject combination at each.

Both Manchester and St George's use MMI interviews, so the underlying prep approach is the same — practise ethics frameworks, NHS hot-topic answers and (for MMI) structured station responses against a timer.

Interview windows: Manchester interviews in December - February; St George's in November - February.

Manchester: Home applicants: 896/1285 = 70% (2025); International: 162/322 = 50%; A101 Graduate: 87/120 = 73%. St George's: Home Undergrad (2024): 247/677 = 36% (or 423/686 = 62% inc. deferred); Overseas Undergrad: 25/146 = 17% (or 58/152 = 38% inc. deferred).

Post-interview odds give you the clearest signal of how competitive each school is at the final stage — a school with a 60% post-interview success rate is structurally easier to convert than one at 25%, even if the interview thresholds look identical on paper.

Manchester: Large medical school with a diverse student body and strong research links. Cut-offs are met-or-not - historically every applicant beyond the threshold has been interviewed. SJT band 1 or 2 required (band 3/4 not currently considered).

St George's: Strong holistic-care and soft-skills emphasis. SJT used post-interview in offer making (B1 = 15 pts, B2 = 10, B3 = 5, B4 = nothing). St George's is also generous with deferred-entry offers, often made to borderline applicants in lieu of rejection.