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My name is Abbey, I’m a 3rd Year Vet Med student in the Graduate Entry programme at the University of Edinburgh. Before this degree, I completed my BSc in Veterinary Biosciences and an MRes of Parasite Control at Aberystwyth University.

Outside the classroom, I am very active, acting as captain of the vet school’s badminton team that competes monthly in the local league with weekly training. I also am one of the student ambassadors at vet school, so am very familiar with the runnings of the school.

I have been involved in several extracurricular activities since secondary school, ranging from Model United Nations, organising blood drives, to being the managing editor of the school newspaper just to name a few! This carried into my university years in my first degree, restarting the Animal & Veterinary Society and holding roles such as President, Vice-President and Secretary, and being a part of a 10-year consecutive winning dance team as well.

I’m Brittany, a Master’s qualified Behavioural Neuroscience graduate and Graduate Entry Medicine student at the University of Chester. My research focused on human behaviour, social interaction, and decision making, which now shapes how I understand students’ reasoning, confidence, and learning needs. I independently navigated the UK medical school admissions process, securing three interview invitations from four applications and ultimately receiving a GEM offer. I now support students with UCAT preparation, university selection, personal statements, interviews, wider application strategy, and A Level Biology, Psychology and Sociology tutoring. As an experienced medical admissions tutor, former Graduate Teaching Assistant, and someone with over 1000 hours of healthcare experience, my approach is practical, structured, and personalised. For A Level students, I focus on content consolidation, memorisation, revision strategies, exam technique, and structured exam preparation. As a neurodivergent applicant who sat the UCAT with access arrangements, I understand that every student may need a different route to success. I help students recognise patterns in their mistakes, communicate their experiences confidently, and approach both exams and the admissions process with a clear strategy.

I am a graduate of Flinders University from its Doctor of Medicine program, currently enrolled in my Doctor of Philosophy. In addition, to studying medicine at Flinders I have also participated in extracurriculars such as university sports and medrevue, as stage manager. Medrevue which is a musical that is organized by medical students every year.

I moved to Australia 10 years ago and did not have much experience with their tertiary education system. However, my experiences with volunteering and private tutoring helped me build a network which later helped me gain useful advice when trying to seek admission into an undergraduate university course. I believe I would be of use to anyone who needs some mentoring while trying to navigate the tertiary education system in Australia.

The networks I was able to establish during the course of my undergraduate degree helped me a lot when trying to gain admission into medicine in Australia. I studied Bachelors of Biomedicine at University of Melbourne graduating with a First class Honors Average and a GPA of 6.8out of a maximum of 7. I was a subjective representative as well. Following my undergraduate degree a spent an year of honors research with the aged care group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. As a result of my research I was able to publish articles in reputable journals.

I am currently studying medicine at Flinders where some members of the faculty have let me know that I have been scoring in the top 10 % of students. I am a anatomy/dissection tutor for junior medical students as well