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Veterinary Medicine Selection Process 2022 entry
The RVC receives in excess of 1800 applications each year for approximately 250 places on our D100, D101 and D102 courses. We are committed to selecting our students using fair and transparent processes. As the majority of our applicants meet or exceed our academic entry requirements, we have developed selection methods which we believe enable us to recruit the students most suited to our degree programme.
All applications for 2022 entry must be submitted through UCAS by 15 October 2021. Late applications will not be considered. Emails confirming receipt of applications will be sent to all applicants via the Admissions Office, once the deadline has passed and UCAS have processed all applications. The RVC may request further information from applicants at any stage during the process. Failure to respond to such requests, by the deadline given, may result in the application being made unsuccessful.
Applications are considered in the following stages:
1. Supplementary questionnaire
Applications are initially screened to see whether the applicant has completed and submitted our supplementary questionnaire (see http://www.rvc.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/applicant- work-experience-form) by the 15 October deadline. Applicants who have not submitted their questionnaire by this date will not progress any further. Our unsuccessful decision will be processed through UCAS and the applicant notified, in due course.
2. Work Experience criteria
Applicants who have submitted their supplementary form are then screened against our published work experience criteria (note for this year they will be screened against our COVID- revised criteria). Any applicants who do not meet our minimum requirements will not progress any further. Our unsuccessful decision will be processed through UCAS and the applicant notified, in due course.
3. Academic criteria
Applications are then screened and scored according to whether or not they meet our published minimum entry requirements, as detailed on our website. Applications that miss our entry requirements by one grade are not necessarily excluded at this point but they will score less than those who meet our requirements and therefore will be at a disadvantage. Any applications that fail to meet our entry requirements by more than one grade will not progress any further. Our unsuccessful decision will be processed through UCAS and the applicant notified, in due course.
4. Application scoring
Applications that meet our minimum academic criteria are then scored on the following criteria:
a. Non-academic criteria
Applications are screened and scored by our trained Admissions Officers, who consider the answers the applicant provided on their supplementary questionnaire. Our assessors are looking for:
- Insight and understanding of the course/profession/College
- Demonstration of motivation towards the course/profession/College
- Interest and commitment to the course/profession/College
- Skills and characteristics that demonstrate suitability for the course/profession/College
- Written standard
The applicant’s supplementary questionnaire answers will be scored based on the above criteria. In determining these scores, and to ensure parity and fairness, the assessors will only consider the supplementary questionnaire answers as provided on their application and no additional or supplementary information.
Any applicant who, on the basis of a low score in the non-academic criteria, is unsuccessful at reaching the interview threshold score will be reviewed by a second member of the Admissions Team.
b. Contextual Information
To ensure that applicants from widening participation backgrounds are not disadvantaged during our processes contextual information is reviewed as a part of the scrutiny process. Due to the availability of data, this data is only used for UK based, home fee paying, students.
The following data is considered:
- Whether the applicant is from a low participation neighbourhood, using HEFCE POLAR 4 data
- Whether the applicant has been looked after/in care (this must have been declared on the UCAS application to be considered)
- Whether the applicant has attended a school/college at level 2 and at level 3 that the RVC has determined is a contextual school.
Where an applicant meets one or more of these criteria, their total score will be adjusted accordingly.
5. Interview selection
The RVC does not make any offers on its Veterinary Medicine degrees without interview.
Interviews are normally held in the UK in late-November and December, in the United States in January and in Asia in early-January. Interviews are not allocated in any order of preference or scoring significance. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some or all interviews may be held remotely. Where someone has applied to more than veterinary medicine course (Gateway, BVetMed or Accelerated BVetMed), they will only be required to interview once and their performance will be considered for all courses.
Applicants are selected based on their total score, achieved across the process detailed above. The threshold is determined by the number of interview spaces available in any given year and is not a fixed number therefore it is not possible to advise applicants of a total score needed to be
