maybeobsessed
Member
In NSW can Uni of Newcastle and Uni of New England be 2 separate preferences? I wasn't aware of this?
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General Medicine Entry Discussion and Advice Requests
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SmoothCriminal
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Yeah same, I thought Uni of Newcastle and Uni of New England were just one preference together and then you had to complete a direct application to the JMP website where you had to choose the Uni of your preference?
maybeobsessed
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Anonymous_0202
Member
Yeah, I was just confused at first about how the whole BMP process works. But now I've contacted the relevant universities and asked them about how it works, I've got a better understanding of how it works now. I chose my university preferences even before I knew about the BMP process (I ordered them based on my likelihood of getting an offer and my personal preference). But yeah, thank you for the further clarification.See this post > General Medicine Entry Discussion and Advice Requests
You're welcome
Anonymous_0202
You seem like a noob I should add this bit. Where a school (UQ/Adelaide...) gives two separate CSP/BMP course codes you put them both into your pref list, but don't be silly to place BMP higher pref than CSP thinking it gives you more chance
If you did that you'd get BMP even when you qualify in the top 100 in my example. Adding BMP increases your chance, placing BMP higher pref does NOT while it cuts your CSP chance to zero.
For general info, that's another usual myth.
We should order them based entirely on personal preference, offer likelihood doesn't matter.
Say we prefer A over B but we think B is more likely to get
- If we preference B>A and qualify for both we throw away prefered A
- Pref A>B and we don't get A, we will still get B if qualied for B.
Fannnnnnn666
USYD BSci/MD V
Last year the lowest UCAT reported on MSO for Flinders (non-rural) is 86%ile, due to the small sample size, the actual UCAT required for a top-up offer could be lower, but we don't know for sure. Unless LeSpicyGinger have some insider info?
From this link > https://medicaldeans.org.au/data/?m...olments&country=AU&students=Domestic&preview=
Bond 2020 Year1 was 190 students vs 2019=134, 2018=128. This confirms Bond's last year Sept intake was an additional ~60 students, (wasn't to allow May-intake students to start late due to COVID as first thought).
This will elevate Bond into the big league in terms of med graduates per year
- Only less than three major schools UQ, UMelb, Monash
- Similar number to USyd, UNSW, Griffith, UWA
- Higher than the rest 13 schools.
Bond 2020 Year1 was 190 students vs 2019=134, 2018=128. This confirms Bond's last year Sept intake was an additional ~60 students, (wasn't to allow May-intake students to start late due to COVID as first thought).
This will elevate Bond into the big league in terms of med graduates per year
- Only less than three major schools UQ, UMelb, Monash
- Similar number to USyd, UNSW, Griffith, UWA
- Higher than the rest 13 schools.
LeSpicyGinger
Flinders MD III
Is your UES due to studying at a lower socioeconomic area school in your gap year? If it is, then you are ineligible as that got phased out this year I believe. If you are eligible for UES through other means then great!
Your chance isn't certain this year as I expect with the lockdowns going on in Sydney and Melbourne, UES will be applied liberally like last year. You might get an offer 2nd or 3rd round or even waiting list is my guess as I only got a second round offer with my results.
yeah I don't really want to move to Townsville so I didn't think it was worth the effort trying to make a good application letter and rather focus on getting into the universities I would rather go to, such as UQ.
Out of curiosity, do you know the lowest UCAT score which got an offer with a 99.95 selection rank last year?
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Preference lists are very individual so I won't comment much but just one thing, what do you mean by "University of Melbourne" which you've preferenced 2nd for VTAC? I can see you already have the Chancellor's Pathway as 4th.
You are aware aswell with CQU that you do the entire degree in a regional area... like you do the first 3 years under CQU and the last 4 years under the UQ but not at UQ St Lucia, you do them entirely at one of UQ's Rural Clinical site
Ohh yeah thats a mistake, thanks.
I actually was not, thanks for informing me and ill take that into account.
SmoothCriminal
Regular Member
iirc, there are two campuses for CQU (Rockhampton and Bundaberg), which both have a different QTAC code, so with these preferences you will only be able to apply for one of these campuses.
YeahTrueHey
Member
Hey guys,
I'm in my first year of uni (have only completed one semester) and just did the UCAT. I'm quite pleased with my score and was hoping to apply for medical schools and was only aware I could apply to WSU and JMP. Could someone please lmk what other unis I could apply to. Thanks.
I'm in my first year of uni (have only completed one semester) and just did the UCAT. I'm quite pleased with my score and was hoping to apply for medical schools and was only aware I could apply to WSU and JMP. Could someone please lmk what other unis I could apply to. Thanks.
If you have sufficient ATAR/GPA you can also apply to UNSW, JCU, Bond. Have a look in the section for Non-standards here
> [Undergrad] - (2020 Updated) Med schools Selection Criteria Y12s & Non-standards
