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Flinders Flinders Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion

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zoingoboingo said:
Would anyone have any predictions for how the 50% sub quota for Adelaide and coronavirus would affect the Flinders minimum ucat? Or will it stay around the same like other years? A friend of a friend last year got in with a 71% and 99.95 ues but who knows if it will go that low this year
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Last year my friend got in with a 99.1 with approx 2600 ucat but I assume this is a rare case for flinders...
 
jinjja21 said:
Last year my friend got in with a 99.1 with approx 2600 ucat but I assume this is a rare case for flinders...
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Wow your friend must have been really lucky considering the presence of other applicants who entered through their UES! I honestly feel like even a 50 percentile UCAT will be enough to save you a place in flinders if you get bumped to 99.95 through UES...
 
jinjja21 said:
Last year my friend got in with a 99.1 with approx 2600 ucat but I assume this is a rare case for flinders...
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I remember ucatboy saying the lowest UCAT for 99.95s he knew of was 90ish (or at least high 80s) %ile, whereas 2600 would've been 70ish %ile.

If what you say is true it means SATAC added 5 bonus marks to the 99.1's aggregate of 86.70 to become 91.70, which would be higher than raw 99.95 aggregates (range 89.5 to 90.0), thus needed a lower UCAT. Strange but not impossible given some schools have said they use aggregates rather than ATAR's face value.
 
A1 said:
I remember ucatboy saying the lowest UCAT for 99.95s he knew of was 90ish (or at least high 80s) %ile, whereas 2600 would've been 70ish %ile.

If what you say is true it means SATAC added 5 bonus marks to the 99.1's aggregate of 86.70 to become 91.70, which would be higher than raw 99.95 aggregates (89.5 to 90.0), thus needed a lower UCAT. Strange but not impossible given some schools have said they use aggregates rather than ATAR's face value.
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Apparently there were around 20 applicants in front of my friend and all of them declined the offer so my friend had a spot... Would this be the reason why my friend got a spot?
 
jinjja21 said:
Apparently there were around 20 applicants in front of my friend and all of them declined the offer so my friend had a spot... Would this be the reason why my friend got a spot?
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To answer this we need to know when did your friend receive the Flinders offer - in the first SATAC offer round, or second round, or a top-up directly from Flinders (i.e. not in a SATAC round)?

If it was 2nd-round or top-up I wonder why ucatboy 's friend with higher UCAT didn't receive one.
 
Just a clarification, I'm not actually sure of the minimum UCAT percentile required for a 99.95 ATAR/selection rank. It could well be in the 2600s, I don't have evidence that contradicts or supports that. One of my friends did indeed get a Flinders offer with 99.95 + 89%ile, but that doesn't exclude anyone below him from also geting an offer. I'm only familiar with the UCAT score necessary for a 99.90 ATAR/selection rank, which is somewhere between 3240 and 3410. Since ATAR is weighed 9x higher than UCAT, it could very well be that +0.05 ATAR = -600-800 UCAT.

There's no doubt that jinjja21 's friend qualified for UES though, regardless of whether or not they were personally aware of it.
 
A1 said:
To answer this we need to know when did your friend receive the Flinders offer - in the first SATAC offer round, or second round, or a top-up directly from Flinders (i.e. not in a SATAC round)?

If it was 2nd-round or top-up I wonder why ucatboy 's friend with higher UCAT didn't receive one.
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I've heard of much lower scores getting offers. johnthicc please clarify the score
 
ucatboy said:
I'm not actually sure of the minimum UCAT percentile required for a 99.95 ATAR/selection rank. It could well be in the 2600s, I don't have evidence that contradicts or supports that.
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Okay let's assume 99.95 only needed 2600 / 70ish %ile to get a Flinders offer last year. Then how do we explain johnthicc 's friend 99.70 / 2840 who got a top-up offer?

If they had UES they'd have got an offer first up with 2840. If they didn't have UES why 99.70 got top-up but not those 99.80-99.85? Flinders is weird.
 
A1 said:
Okay let's assume 99.95 only needed 2600 / 70ish %ile to get a Flinders offer last year. Then how do we explain johnthicc 's friend 99.70 / 2840 who got a top-up offer?

If they had UES they'd have got an offer first up with 2840. If they didn't have UES why 99.70 got top-up but not those 99.80-99.85? Flinders is weird.
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Would the order of course preference in their SATAC application affect this?
 
A1 said:
Okay let's assume 99.95 only needed 2600 / 70ish %ile to get a Flinders offer last year. Then how do we explain johnthicc 's friend 99.70 / 2840 who got a top-up offer?

If they had UES they'd have got an offer first up with 2840. If they didn't have UES why 99.70 got top-up but not those 99.80-99.85? Flinders is weird.
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Actually no hold up, my friend got a SECOND round Flinders offer with 99.95 SR + 89%ile UCAT. I think he put in his UES application way back in 2019, not between the first and second offer rounds (and hence didn't just qualify all of a sudden). If this is indeed the case, then johnthicc's friend's story lines up as well. My friend's exact UCAT score was 2830, just 10 off of 2840. It's likely they both got second-round Flinders offers. Not sure how 2600 possibly managed to get an offer then..unless it was a super super late round offer?

A1 your 100+ SR theory wouldn't make sense here either as my friend's raw ATAR was 99.90, UES only added that final 0.05 icing on the cake.
 
nah my friend (99.75 btw but not much difference lol) got a really late offer in mid march, they called him up when school had already started. he says he doesn't even know what UES is so he wouldn't have known to apply. thats all i know, idk how he got an offer.
 
ucatboy said:
It's likely they both got second-round Flinders offers.
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johnthicc has confirmed his 99.75 / 2840 got a top-up offer. So the situation we have is :
- 99.95 SR + 2600 got an offer
- 99.95 SR + 2830 got 2nd round (why when vs 2600?)
- 99.75 + 2840 got a top-up. This says they didn't have UES since UES should have got them even 1st round.
 
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johnthicc has confirmed his 99.70 / 2840 got a top-up offer. So the situation we have is :
- 99.95 + 2600 got an offer
- 99.90 + 2830 got 2nd round
- 99.75 + 2840 got a top-up. This says they didn't have UES since UES should have got them even 1st round.
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Considering flinders is 90% ATAR and 10% UCAT, in this case, would 99.95+2600 yield a higher combined score than 99.7+2840?
 
Doradoraaa said:
Considering flinders is 90% ATAR and 10% UCAT, in this case, would 99.95+2600 yield a higher combined score than 99.7+2840?
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Considering that 99.90 + 3240 (3360 equiv. in 2020) didn't get a Flinders offer, there's no way in hell a raw, unadjusted 99.75 stands a sliver of a chance. Flinders has quickly become 99.95 or nothing in recent years.
 
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johnthicc has confirmed his 99.75 / 2840 got a top-up offer. So the situation we have is :
- 99.95 SR + 2600 got an offer
- 99.95 SR + 2830 got 2nd round (why when vs 2600?)
- 99.75 + 2840 got a top-up. This says they didn't have UES since UES should have got them even 1st round.
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How do you know that 99.95 + 2840 would get someone a 1st round?
 
ucatboy said:
How do you know that 99.95 + 2840 would get someone a 1st round?
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I based it on the 99.10 => 99.95 SR + 2600 who got an offer.
But okay, if not 1st round it should've been at least 2nd round when vs your friend's 2830.
 
Damson said:
for those admitted last year, when does your status change from accepted to admitted?
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I'm not sure which status you're asking about.
In your SATAC application it usually goes Eligible -> Awaiting assessment (e.g. interview) -> Offer made (or not made).
After you've accepted the offer and enrolled you have the enrolment record as proof. I don't think SATAC status will change to Admitted.
 
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