Questions re. Studying Med at UWS

[Q3]

how many days you are at uni vs teaching hospitals? If at teaching hospitals do you have to move around a lot or stick to the same ones?

What is a typical timetable like and does it give you time to work and socialise outside of uni, both in terms of days off and time needed outside to study?

The more specific you can be the better.

Feel free to cover topics I haven't addressed such as teaching, student life etc.

 

[plzlemmemed]

Mod Note: Answered

A 'non-great' interview would struggle at WSU due to the weighting of interview in the selection process. You could be easily overtaken by those with much lower combo UCAT/ATAR scores. WSU is generally a 1:3 chance, I believe, once you reach interview stage. UNSW will still factor in your (excellent) ATAR and UCAT so this will help to off-set a poorer interview, but you'd still want to give it your very best!

UQ will probably give you a Provisional Med offer, and UAdel an interview. Monash is tricky to predict for non-Victorians.

Ah ok thank you, so does being from GWS only matter up until the interview stage??

 

[A1]

Ah ok thank you, so does being from GWS only matter up until the interview stage??

Although the GWS/non-GWS interviewees ratio is 50/50 WSU stats show 60% of their med students are GWS. So GWS has like 1.5 times better chance for a place than non-GWS.

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Although the GWS/non-GWS interviewees ratio is 50/50 WSU stats show 60% of their med students are GWS. So GWS has like 1.5 times better chance for a place than non-GWS.

Perhaps their interview numbers have adjusted accordingly?

 

[A1]

Perhaps their interview numbers have adjusted accordingly?

I don't really know. What interesting is the GWS interviewees generally have lower UMAT scores *and* UMAT counts 25% in the overall ranking, yet they get a bigger share of the places. Which means WSU must set a different/lower cutoff for GWS offers. They can set it anywhere they want to get the desired number of GWS students.

 

[DrDrLMG!]

I don't really know. What interesting is the GWS interviewees generally have lower UMAT scores *and* UMAT counts 25% in the overall ranking, yet they get a bigger share of the places. Which means WSU must set a different/lower cutoff for GWS offers. They can set it anywhere they want to get the desired number of GWS students.

Yes, I'd imagine this is the case re. the lower cut off. It's the same as for UTAS in many ways. They have X amount of spots they want to offer to a specific group for whatever reason, and they can offer down to that regardless of what the lowest score ends up being. Actually, I doubt they 'set' a cut-off at all, it just happens naturally when the places are filled. ETA: Same for rural cohorts. ETA2: Same for all cohorts, lol!

 

[deadkid]

can you only get one interview offer per offer round? and is it only for the uni you put as your first preference?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

can you only get one interview offer per offer round? and is it only for the uni you put as your first preference?

No, you’ll get interviews for all universities you’re eligible for as long as they are ~somewhere in your preferences at roughly the end of September.

 

[deadkid]

thanks

 

[plzlemmemed]

The WSU application portal has no option for a middle name, do we just not include it?