Manchester Evening News
May 2011

The Manchester Grammar School is producing record numbers of young doctors, dentists and vets with over 20 percent of their Year 13 group gaining offers to Britain's top medical schools.

This year 39 students have received offers with 33 students reading medicine, five choosing dentistry and one for veterinary medicine.

The numbers are up from last year's record total of 31 Sixth Form students earning offers to read Medicine and Dentistry, up from 23 in 2009 and 16 in 2008.

Head of Sixth Form, Patrick Thom, said: This is a record for MGS and in today's increasingly competitive environment this represents a fantastic success story.  It is a tribute to the talent and hard work of these young men and to the dedication and skill of those who teach them. We are not just a regional but a national centre of excellence in preparing students for entry to medical school.

Four of these offers for Medicine are from Cambridge, and Admissions Tutor Professor David Cardwell commented:  The admission of this number of students to read medicine at Cambridge from a single school is unusually high.

High Master, Dr Christopher Ray, added:  Every one of the 39 MGS students achieving an medical offer in this incredibly competitive year for university places has thoroughly deserved his remarkable success.  The country urgently needs well-qualified mathematicians, scientists, engineers and medics and MGS is very proud to continue to serve this need so well.

Read our local success stories

Sale & Altrincham Messenger, Sale & Altrincham Advertiser, Sale, Hale & Altrincham Independent

Young doctors from The Manchester Grammar School have produced a perfect 10 as a record number of students have gained entry to Britain's top medical schools.

This year a total of 39 MGS Sixth Form students have received offers with 33 students reading medicine, five choosing dentistry and one for veterinary medicine.  The local successes all reading Medicine are from left to right on the back row:

Saklain Farooq, 17, from Old Trafford, who has an offer from Manchester and ultimately would like to become a cardiac surgeon.

Award-winning Olympic Chemist Laith Alexander, 17, from Hale, who has an offer from Cambridge and wants to work in biomedical research.

Charlie Chen Zou, 18, from Sale, also has a Cambridge offer and hopes to specialise in neuroscience or surgery.

Michael Fusi, 18, from Bowdon, has an offer from Birmingham. A tireless charity worker while at MGS, Michael aims to concentrate on his course before deciding his options.

Adam Talbot, 17, from Hale Barns also has an offer from Birmingham and hopes to specialise in invasive heart surgery.

Tom Nyan, 17, from Sale, is heading to UCL and says he possiblly would like to specialise in  haematology.

Bobby Faris, 17, from Sale, is another heading for Birmingham and wants to work in emergency medicine.

On the front row David Rowland, 18, from Altrincham has an Oxford offer and wants to specialise in Neuroscience.

Jack Macleod, 18, from Altrincham, has an offer from St Andrews and wants to become a surgeon.

While Hassan Chaudhry, 18 from Hale Barns has an offer from Manchester and also wants to become a surgeon.

Stockport Express

Eight young doctors from Stockport are part of a record breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School who have gained offers from Britain's top medical schools.

The Stockport star students are from left to right on the back row:

Sajjaad Khalil, 18, who has an offer from Birmingham.

Hemal Raial, 18, who has an offer to study Dentistry at King's College London, and would like to work as an orthodontist in Spain.

Faisal Solkar, 17, who has offer to read Medicine from Queen Mary College, London and chose Medicine because of his strong desire to help people.

Hassan Anwar, 17, who has an offer to read Dentistry at Liverpool University and is hoping to have his own surgery and Peter Nathan, 17, who has an offer to read Medicine at Birmingham and wants to specialise in neurosurgery.

On the front row are Safdar Sarwar, 18, who has an offer to read Medicine at Leeds and wants to become a surgeon.

Abdulla Al-Kamil, 18, who has an offer to read Medicine at St John's College Cambridge and wants to specialise in neurosurgery; and

Khuszoo Shahmalak, 17, has offer to read Medicine at Manchester and is favouring either neurology or cardiology.

Warrington Guardian


 
Warrington young doctor Angus Dawson is one of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School.

Angus, 18, from Appleton, is just one of 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain’s top medical schools.

Angus gained four A stars and six As in his GCSEs and has an offer to read Medicine from University College London.  As well as having a long and successful medical career, keen mountaineer Angus has along held ambition to climb Everest.

Wythenshawe News

 

Peel Hall young doctor, Christian Moore, is one of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School. Christian, 18, is just one of 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain's top medical schools.

Christian gained a clean sweep of nine straight A stars in his GCSEs and has an offer from Manchester University.

He said: I'd like to become a physician in order to gain the highest level of theoretical and practical skill possible.

South Manchester Reporter

A trio of South Manchester young doctors are part of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School.

Hamza Zafar, 17, from Didsbury, Saif Riaz, 17 from Chortlon and Khaleel Ahmed , 18, from Levenshulme, are just three of the 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain’s top medical schools.

Pictured from left to right are Hamza, who gained 10 A stars in his GCSEs, has an offer to read Medicine at Manchester and will combine his Medical degree with a French course, hoping to work across the Channel at some time in his career.

Saif gained seven A stars and three As in his GCSEs, has an offer read Dentistry at Manchester and aims to own his own practice.

While Khaleed gained seven A stars, two As and one B in his GCSEs, has an offer to read Medicine at Manchester and hopes to specialise in psychiatry.

Salford Advertiser


 
Worsley young doctor Alex Norbury is one of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School.

Alex, 17, is one of 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain's top medical schools.

Alex gained nine A stars and one A in his GCSEs and is taking six subjects in MGS's International Baccalaureate option. He has an offer to read Medicine at Birmingham University and says: I want to succeed at medical school before I choose any specialism.

Huddersfield News


 
Huddersfield young doctor Hamza Naeem believes his 80-mile commute to and from school has been justified by his offer to read Medicine at Liverpool University.

Hamza, 18, from Springwood Hall Gardens, crosses the county border every day to attend The Manchester Grammar School and is now one of a record-breaking generation with an astonishing 39 MGS Sixth Form students earning offers from Britain's top medical schools.

Hamza said:  I realise that not many sixth form students will travel 40 miles to their school, but if you get the express train it takes just half an hour and I have a far less difficult journey than some of my class mates.

He added: MGS's results show it has been worthwhile, but it's not just inside the classroom I have been on an Alpine Trek this year and I am not too sure if I would have been able to do that at any local school.

Wilmslow Express

 

Wilmslow young doctors Salman Jami Siddiqi and Marcus Cabrera-Dandy are part of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School.

Salman, 18, and Marcus, 18, are just two of the 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain’s top medical schools.

Salman who gained 10 A stars and one A in his GCSEs has an offer to read Medicine at Birmingham and has a long term ambition to develop new techniques in cardiovascular surgery.

MGS First team rugby player Marcus, gained seven A stars and two A grades in his GCSEs and has an offer to read Medicine at Keele, also hoping to become a surgeon

Guardian Observer Newspaper


 
Whaley Bridge young doctor Rahul Dalal is one of a record-breaking generation at The Manchester Grammar School. Rahul, 17, is just one of 39 MGS Sixth Form students to earn offers from Britain's top medical schools.

Rahul gained a clean sweep of ten straight A stars in his GCSEs and has an offer to read Medicine at Birmingham University.