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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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AlteredState1 said:
It is what sets Auckland University apart from Otago University
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I'd argue that Otago having a year more of clinical skills training than Auckland does more than makes up for our lack of a whole half-hour interview ;)
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[OFFTOPIC]Hey sorry man, I wasn't trying to insult Otago, just stating the differences between the two universities. I cannot pass judgement on the MbChB cohort in Otago, but I do disagree with the lack of an interview, and the weighting placed on Umat. There are plenty of people up here with great GPAs, who would be at a massive disadvantage down in Otago with percentiles between 30 - 80%.

The interview provides a mechanism for self-reflection, as you HAVE to think about your reasons for medicine before you sit in front of the interviewers. [/OFFTOPIC]
 
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AlteredState1 said:
Hey sorry man, I wasn't trying to insult Otago, just stating the differences between the two universities. I cannot pass judgement on the MbChB cohort in Otago, but I do disagree with the lack of an interview, and the weighting placed on Umat. There are plenty of people up here with great GPAs, who would be at a massive disadvantage down in Otago with percentiles between 30 - 80%.

The interview provides a mechanism for self-reflection, as you HAVE to think about your reasons for medicine before you sit in front of the interviewers.
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Oh I wasn't taking offense, just pointing out that the lack of interview doesn't really count for anywhere near as much as you (and most proponents of the interview) are making out. I don't think that 'People with high GPAs being culled by UMAT' are really that much of an argument, since UMAT and interviews have both been shown to have similar predictive value (ie: Next to none). Also, UMAT really doesn't really make as much of a difference as its 33% weighting would suggest. You have to be quite a bit below 50th%ile before your UMAT score really makes it difficult to be accepted at Otago.
Even if you do have to think about your reasons, any 'reasons' that a premed could come up with as to why they want to do medicine would be largely idealised/probably a bit naive. I don't really think I'd even pay that much attention to someone in my class's 'Reasons for doing medicine', because I don't think we even really know what medicine *is* yet, so any 'reasons' we came up with would probably be based largely on our own misconceptions/what we've seen on Scrubs.
This discussion has been done to death on the forums (the 'Otago vs. Auckland' thread is full of it), so I don't really want to get into it in detail again, but I still think the importance of an interview is vastly overstated. That said, I note that those who most strongly support an interview tend go to schools that use one (and vice versa), so it's pretty obvious that we're inherently biased to prefer the selection criteria that got us in ;) [/offtopic]
 
just to confirm: as long as we get a GPA of 6 overall, it doesn't matter how we do in our non core papers? e.g, a C in 106 won't matter if we get A+ in medsci and A+ physics for example?
 
hca12 said:
just to confirm: as long as we get a GPA of 6 overall, it doesn't matter how we do in our non core papers? e.g, a C in 106 won't matter if we get A+ in medsci and A+ physics for example?
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yeah thats technically correct.....but in saying that, you must pass all papers, failing a paper will mean you have not completed the required 8 papers for OLY1
 
haha cheers [MENTION=14740]hca12[/MENTION] , i have heard physiology has been known to be ruthless XD good luck to you too!
 
I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion around this on the forum!
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I only found out today from MSO.

I can so imagine someone being driven to do this. Even though his actions were highly duplicitous and I do not agree with them (He could have used that determination during those two years to apply for graduate entry in 2013, Wtf?!), he must have felt so ashamed at not getting in that he did not tell his parents or friends. I do feel sorry for him, as I understand what it means to be invested in the idea of getting to Medical School, but that is taking it too far.
 
BC mso said:
Medical Student Hoax At Auckland University | Stuff.co.nz
This takes the cake >.<
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'If I just show up to class, they have to accept me, right?'
Also, no disrespect to Auckland (ok, maybe a little disrespect, because this is going to be something we can hold over Aucklanders' heads for years to come :p ), but this would be pretty impossible at Otago. They like, literally watch each person individually scan into the dissection room, and our small-group tutors have photos of everyone who is meant to be in their group.
 
hey guys, hope everyones exam study is coming along well. where is everyone at with their MH03 forms? i've done a draft, but it needs a significant amount of work done to it haha. i was thinking of leaving it till after the medsci exam (27th) so would have a few days to rewrite it etc but i'm starting to feel that that's a bit of a stupid idea.
 
hca12 said:
hey guys, hope everyones exam study is coming along well. where is everyone at with their MH03 forms? i've done a draft, but it needs a significant amount of work done to it haha. i was thinking of leaving it till after the medsci exam (27th) so would have a few days to rewrite it etc but i'm starting to feel that that's a bit of a stupid idea.
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Dont worry about it too much. It's still due in on the first no? 3 days is plenty of time IMO if you've had a bit of time to think it over.

Why are you having trouble writing it?
 
Hey guys! Kinda new here, doing biomed as well :)
I was just wondering if we're supposed to write full-on essays for the MH03 forms?
And good luck with the medsci test today!
 
There is no specific format that you have to follow. You just need to make sure that you answer the questions that they pose on the form. Remember you are only given 3000 characters, which is about 500-600 words, so you don't get a lot of room to write anything in depth.

I would say write as much as you want to start off with, get everything you want to say down on paper, then start cutting it down to the character limit.
 
Go with breadth rather than depth. It'll save space and give your interviewers more information to discuss.
 
yeah i always struggle writing about myself :( i also find it quite difficult to convey why i want to medicine in a written format without being cliched :/
 
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