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General Interview Discussion and Questions - 2021 Entry

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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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I really appreciate it thank you!
 
wombat9238 said:
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I really appreciate it thank you!
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Do the UK universities interview thousands of applicants each for just a few spots? Or do thousands apply, then that gets whittled down to the number they interview, then down further to the number that receive a place offer? Because if you're talking about the latter, then that's the same has here and Universities like to quote these (largely meaningless) figures to make their courses sound uber desirable to those that don't know better. In reality, the majority of people who apply are not eligible on the basis of UCAT, ATAR/GPA, other measure, so it's a vastly inflated figure.

If it's the former then... why??!!
 
LMG! said:
Do the UK universities interview thousands of applicants each for just a few spots? Or do thousands apply, then that gets whittled down to the number they interview, then down further to the number that receive a place offer? Because if you're talking about the latter, then that's the same has here and Universities like to quote these (largely meaningless) figures to make their courses sound uber desirable to those that don't know better. In reality, the majority of people who apply are not eligible on the basis of UCAT, ATAR/GPA, other measure, so it's a vastly inflated figure.

If it's the former then... why??!!
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I've heard it been said that it's much harder to get into a UK university but you might be right! Might be the academic thresholds before the interview that whittle it down although the UCAT percentile is generally a bit lower so I think that's why they have the personal statememt etc. Regarding the figures they quote say 1000 for monash or 750/800 for JMP that does consist of those who did pass the UCAT mark and for JMP, most likely will pass the ATAR requirement. I could easily be incorrect.
 
wombat9238 said:
I've heard it been said that it's much harder to get into a UK university but you might be right! Might be the academic thresholds before the interview that whittle it down although the UCAT percentile is generally a bit lower so I think that's why they have the personal statememt etc. Regarding the figures they quote say 1000 for monash or 750/800 for JMP that does consist of those who did pass the UCAT mark and for JMP, most likely will pass the ATAR requirement. I could easily be incorrect.
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700-800 people is how many are interviewed at JMP. Closer to 4.5K apply!!
 
Does anyone know what a typical Adelaide Dent interview is like? I've heard it's different to med and it's 15 minutes which is quite short
 
Anyone else anxiously refreshing their emails lol? also, is it confirmed that JMP interviews won't be coming out till after (or on) Wednesday (4/11)?
 
ruralhopeful said:
Anyone else anxiously refreshing their emails lol? also, is it confirmed that JMP interviews won't be coming out till after (or on) Wednesday (4/11)?
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There’s pretty much no such thing as ‘confirmed’ when it comes to the application cycle. There’s simply the last thing admissions said to whichever MSO member braved the gauntlet to contact them. The next person to call could well get a very difference response. As per that notion: the 4th-6th is the last quote we received (thanks to hazell).
 
Hahaha, yes I have been refreshing my emails every few mins. I think hazell said that she talked to JMP and they said between the 4th to 6th, but I remember there being another post about JMP releasing on the 2nd, so I don't think anyone can say for certain when they are coming out during this week.

Edit: LMG! beat me to it 🤣
 
qUiCkMaThS said:
Hahaha, yes I have been refreshing my emails every few mins. I think hazell said that she talked to JMP and they said between the 4th to 6th, but I remember there being another post about JMP releasing on the 2nd, so I don't think anyone can say for certain when they are coming out during this week.

Edit: LMG! beat me to it 🤣
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they replied to me saying "week commencing 2/11" so any time this week not necessarily today:)
 
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