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General Interview Discussion and Questions - 2021 Entry

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Hey for anyone else that got the WSU med invite, it says booking for an interview only opens on Nov 4 but for some reason I can enter all my details and begin the booking process. Can anyone explain whats going on?
 
Nardwuar said:
Hey for anyone else that got the WSU med invite, it says booking for an interview only opens on Nov 4 but for some reason I can enter all my details and begin the booking process. Can anyone explain whats going on?
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That’s really weird. The link wasn’t active on Monday but now it works for me too- maybe let’s not rush into it and wait till the 4th just in case 😅
 
I called up JMP and asked when interview offers will be released and they said sometime next week but they don’t know the exact date. I asked if it will be before the 4th and they said no, I asked if it will be after the 6th and they said no. So it’s somewhere between the 4th and the 6th!
 
hazell said:
I called up JMP and asked when interview offers will be released and they said sometime next week but they don’t know the exact date. I asked if it will be before the 4th and they said no, I asked if it will be after the 6th and they said no. So it’s somewhere between the 4th and the 6th!
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That's smart XD
 
LeSpicyGinger said:
This year they mandated that 50% of School Leaver interview applicants would need to be from SA. Some of the earlier posts had rejections for 95th percentile from other states.

Suppose we consider 1.7 million people in SA and 29 million in Aus and New Zealand (info from google). SA only represents 6%~ of the overall population and if we say that this is approximately the spread for UCAT test takers (let's say 14k in total), then SA only has 800 or so ucat test takers. It's not really surprisingly that the cut off is so low.

Disclaimer: This is extremely rough and probably inaccurate but you get the idea. Credit: ucatboy
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Do people who got 70/80 percentile have a chance against everyone else who got 90+?
 
Layla_a said:
Do people who got 70/80 percentile have a chance against everyone else who got 90+?
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I think it's all relative (I have no special insight into admissions). Last year the cutoff was 91st and we still saw people at this cutoff on MSO receive offers for Adelaide (I think there was one?). I'd say last year's 91st is equivalent to this year's 71st percentile in terms of relative ranking within applicants which means they still have a chance. ATAR and interview are worth much more than UCAT so you'd probably need a stellar interview and ATAR combo at that percentile.
 
As a rural student , if I got 70th percentile and do relatively well in the interview, do I have a reasonable chance of being selected for the JMP ?
 
shaunlee108 said:
As a rural student , if I got 70th percentile and do relatively well in the interview, do I have a reasonable chance of being selected for the JMP ?
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Your UCAT score doesn't matter one you've got to the interview stage - offers are made entirely from your interview score. You need to score in the top x number of rural places on offer in the rural applicant pool (by my calculations this means in the top 43 rural applicants) to guarantee yourself a place offer. Roughly speaking, you'll need to score in the top 30% to be confident of a place offer (or the top 25% for a first round offer).
 
As a non rural student what are your chances of passing the interview process? Would it make sense if there are 170 places - 40 rural places = 130/750? 17%? Thanks
 
wombat9238 said:
As a non rural student what are your chances of passing the interview process? Would it make sense if there are 170 places - 40 rural places = 130/750? 17%? Thanks
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It's counter-productive to think about passing the interview hurdle in terms of probabilities, or try and calculate it. It's easier to focus on making sure to interview well so that you're not leaving it to chance.
 
threefivetwo said:
It's counter-productive to think about passing the interview hurdle in terms of probabilities, or try and calculate it. It's easier to focus on making sure to interview well so that you're not leaving it to chance.
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Thanks for that I completely agree just wanted to know it wasn't like the UK where there are so few spots for thousands of people. Thanks for the reply!
 
wombat9238 said:
As a non rural student what are your chances of passing the interview process? Would it make sense if there are 170 places - 40 rural places = 130/750? 17%? Thanks
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Agree with the above, but the maths is also flawed. It would be (170-number of rural places offered)/(750-rural interviewee number) which would likely roughly work out to be 23ish % if rural and non-rural applicant interview to offer ratios are the same and the rural applicants and non-rural applicants perform to an equivalent level in the interview.

This is before you take into account all the individuals who would have landed a JMP offer but had UNSW/WSU at a higher preference and landed an offer there, in addition to those who end up accepting interstate offers (and the small number who don't meet the ATAR hurdle despite performing well enough in the interview). I suspect (with absolutely no evidence to support this) that overall you need to be roughly in the top 35-40% of interviewees to get a place offer at the JMP at any offer stage.

As you can see, lots of hypotheticals and variable factors at play which makes this difficult to accurately predict.

Again, it's certainly counterintuitive to think about it in this manner, and you just need to give the interview your best shot and make sure you're well prepared.
 
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