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Griffith Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
- Thread starter Sree
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I have received B.MedSc offer from USC on 16th Jan. I have updated my QTAC preferences yesterday on 23rd Jan and put Griffith Nathan and Gold Coast B.Med Sc higher than USC B.Med Sc. I know I am running quite late in setting the preferences. With an ATAR of 99.95 do people think I have a chance to get Griffith Nathan or Gold Coast B.Med.Sc. in their 30th Jan offer round? Should I contact Griffith, QTAC or both? Really hoping for that. This should not be considered a top up I think.
With an ATAR of 99.95, and clearly you’d prefer the other two given the sentiment if your post, why was USC higher than GC and Nathan in round one?
I made a mistake as I had an impression from their website that GC/Nathan is an accelerated program and it would be hard to maintain a GPA to progress to MD. However, after more research, I have realized it is not as challenging as I initially thought and I would prefer GC/Nathan campuses due to reasons like a 1 year shorter program and these locations also have a direct flight back to my home city in NZ.
I’m not sure how your case will be dealt with tbh. I’m not super familiar with whether late preference changes are accepted for med courses via QTAC specifically. dotwingz may be able to chime in.
Did you accept the USC offer conditionally?
If so and you now have Nathan/GC at higher prefs, you should be considered *if* Griffith releases more offers (from declines they receive) either in a QTAC round or individual top-ups.
If you accepted USC unconditionally, you need to see if you can undo it to conditional in your QTAC account or ask QTAC if they'd do for you.
oknotme123
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I am starting medical science at Griffith University this year, and I was just curious to see if anyone knows the GPA typically required to receive an unbonded spot in the doctor of medicine course after finishing the 2 years bachelor of medical science?
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thank you!
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thank you!
Anywhere between 6.4 and 6.8 according to this postI am starting medical science at Griffith University this year, and I was just curious to see if anyone knows the GPA typically required to receive an unbonded spot in the doctor of medicine course after finishing the 2 years bachelor of medical science?
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thank you!
> Griffith - Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
6.76 got Bonded in 2020
> Griffith - Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
If student from different campus, eg, if one student from USC, another student from Griffith GC, how to compare GPA?Anywhere between 6.4 and 6.8 according to this post
> Griffith - Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
6.76 got Bonded in 2020
> Griffith - Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
Nathan & Gold Coast used to be done separately i.e. 28% of each cohort got BMP. But in this post it's said from 2022 Nathan & GC are pooled together then 28% of the combined cohort get BMP
> Griffith - Griffith Medicine: Provisional Entry General Discussion
This relies on marking standards at the two schools being similar. If one school gives marks more generously the other cohort would be disadvantaged.
I think USC will remain separate due to the different 3-year course structure.
Thanks A1 . When I moved Nathan and GC higher than USC in my QTAC preferences on 23rd, my USC 'Accepted' automatically changed to 'Conditionally Accepted'. So I think it is conditional as it shows.
I know USyd 99.95 (via UAC) has released offers on 23rd Jan, I guess 5 or 6 offers. I imagine if all or many of those ppl would have 'Accepted' Griffith in the 16th Jan round which they will decline post getting USyd offer on 23rd and thus will free up spots in GC or Nathan for 30th Jan round. I am hoping that to be the case.
CarolineGuava
Member
From what I've seen, the adjusted ATAR cutoff was likely still 99.90, but the UCAT cutoff probably would have decreased (it was somewhere in the 2900s in the 1st round).
The displayed $9500 is the average cost of a course for 80CP per year (the 'typical' full-time course load / study pattern), however, you'll be completing ~120CP per year due to the accelerated nature of the degree, so your cost per trimester is proportionately higher. You effectively pay for 1.5 years' worth of subjects in each year, so your overall degree will cost the same as someone who completes the same subjects over 3 years (80CP per year).
CarolineGuava
Member
What Crow said. Bear in mind that you are still studying 3 years of content (3 EFTSL) as the Bachelor of Medical Science is a full bachelor's degree. That still means you have to pay 3 years of tuition fees - you don't get a year's worth of tuition fees off because you're doing the degree in 2 years! So neither the $6000 on your account nor the $9500 on Griffith's website is incorrect, just that it's a bit misleading.