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St George's vs Worcester Medical School

St George's and Worcester Medical School are both UK medical schools, but the path to an offer at each is meaningfully different. St George's is based in London (London) while Worcester Medical School sits in Worcester (England), and the regional context shapes everything from fee status to NHS-deanery destination.

Their A-Level requirements (AAA vs BBB) place them in slightly different academic-strictness tiers. St George's is the older institution (founded 1733); the other (founded 2024) has shaped its medical school around modern integrated-curriculum thinking.

Side-by-side comparison

St George's

London

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Location
London, UK
A-Level offer
A*AA or AAA at A-level (offer depends on cohort strength). Predicted AAA required including Chemistry and Biology / Human Biology.
TrueScore
1950
UCAT home cut-off
~1950+ /2700 (2025 entry cut-off ≈ 1950; 2024 entry was 2018)
Interview format
Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)
Post-interview chance
Home Undergrad (2024): 247/677 = 36% (or 423/686 = 62% inc. deferred); Overseas Undergrad: 25/146 = 17% (or 58/152 = 38% inc. deferred)
Decision date
Rolling-basis after Interviews have finished

Worcester Medical School

Worcester

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Location
Worcester, UK
A-Level offer
BBB including Chemistry and Biology
TrueScore
1900GEM
UCAT home cut-off
-
Interview format
Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)
Post-interview chance
-
Decision date
March onwards

St George's vs Worcester Medical School - in detail

A-Level and academic profile

St George's requires AAA including Chemistry and Biology.

Worcester Medical School requires BBB including Chemistry and Biology.

St George's is the stricter A-Level offer; Worcester Medical School is slightly more forgiving. If your predicted grades are borderline, Worcester Medical School carries the lower academic-rejection risk pre-interview.

Interview formats

Both St George's and Worcester Medical School 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: St George's interviews in November - February; Worcester Medical School in January - March.

What makes each distinctive

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.

Worcester Medical School: Partnership with Swansea University Medical School (provides degree accreditation while Worcester completes GMC accreditation). Emphasis on community-based learning and serving local populations in the West Midlands.

Which is right for you?

For applicants with predicted A-Level grades at the lower end of the AAA-A*AA range, Worcester Medical School is the lower-risk academic option. Regionally, the choice often comes down to cost of living and NHS-deanery preferences — St George's feeds into the London foundation programme network; Worcester Medical School into the England network.

Your firm/insurance choice should ultimately weight: where your UCAT and predicted grades sit relative to each school's threshold, which interview format you can prepare for most credibly, and where you'd actually want to live for five or six years.

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