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Interview offers & dates 2016-17

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Mana said:
Presuming we are talking about interview offers, you'll find that certainly there are a lot more than 500 interview offers over all three rounds at UNSW - they are one of the largest medical schools in the country. I would think that closer to 800 people are interviewed in total.
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I just checked in the UNSW Med video, Mr Boothey said last year they interviewed 400 non-rural, 150 rural (plus about 300 int'ls but in the context we shouldn't include these). I take them as totals not just first round.
 
A1. said:
I just checked in the UNSW Med video, Mr Boothey said last year they interviewed 400 non-rural, 150 rural (plus about 300 int'ls but in the context we shouldn't include these). I take them as totals not just first round.
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I don't think that checks out for being only first round totals considering UNSW's medical school has an intake of ~300 students.
 
Mana said:
I don't think that checks out for being only first round totals considering UNSW's medical school has an intake of ~300 students.
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From the same video: Unbonded 135, Bonded 54 - Total 189 (non-rural + rural) plus 80 int'ls.
These numbers agree with the Medical Deans' stats on cohort sizes.
 
Bala said:
How many people are invited for 2nd round interviews at UNSW
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As replied above UNSW 2nd round 4-5 Jan is for whatever the number of NSW applicants whose predicted ATAR (or lack of) didn't make the cutoff at 1st round but actual ATAR now does.

If you meant to ask about 3rd round 24 Jan for interstate applicants, when I went last year there were 10 time slots on the day with 8 interviewees each so around 80 interstates. Plus 2nd round being two days say 120-150, that leaves 1st round with 320-350.
 
Hi Mana/A1

What is the name of the Facebook page/s which you post interview offers on eg for Monash, JMP etc

Thanks
 
A1. said:
Webpage says Late Dec, I think must be sometime this week as next week would be too close to interview dates 4-5 Jan, not enough time for applicants to prepare.

On that note, anyone below these ATAR/UMAT scores but got interview with UNSW (or vice versa) please let us know to update the table
99.95 / 162 -- 99.50 / 170
99.00 / 178 -- 98.00 / 190
97.00 / 200 -- 96.00 / 210

Thanks
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My friend who recorded an ATAR of 182 this year was informed by UNSW (individual correspondence) that to 'have any realistic chance of qualifying for (2nd round) interview' she will need to have her ATAR (available in WA only on 29 Dec) in 'very high 99s'.
Probably the requirements for post-1st roind (interstate?) candidates are much higher (than for 1st round interviewes) ?
 
macander said:
My friend who recorded an ATAR of 182 this year was informed by UNSW (individual correspondence) that to 'have any realistic chance of qualifying for (2nd round) interview' she will need to have her ATAR (available in WA only on 29 Dec) in 'very high 99s'.
Probably the requirements for post-1st roind (interstate?) candidates are much higher (than for 1st round interviewes) ?
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Nope, the requirements are identical other than the first being based on predicted ATAR and second being based on actual ATAR.
 
Anyone got an interview offer from USyd for intetstate applicant (QLD) yet? Is it normal to receive an congratulation result email from USyd?
 
umat2016 said:
Anyone got an interview offer from USyd for intetstate applicant (QLD) yet? Is it normal to receive an congratulation result email from USyd?
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To the first question: no.

To the second, yes - USyd (and quite a few other universities) send an email to year 12 students who have supplied their contact details to that university, either directly or indirectly (indirectly through UAC, for example).
 
macander said:
My friend who recorded an ATAR of 182 this year was informed by UNSW (individual correspondence) that to 'have any realistic chance of qualifying for (2nd round) interview' she will need to have her ATAR (available in WA only on 29 Dec) in 'very high 99s'.
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Based on the table UMAT 182 would need ~98.80, but that's just scraping in with maybe 10% chance for a place.

@MD last year with 99.95 & 176 was given an estimated 50% chance (to allow her to decide whether it was worth traveling to Sydney for interview). I would not call 50/50 realistic, so in comparison am not surprised that 182 would need high 99s for realistic chance.
 
For any QLD/TAS/SA/WA applicants who are attempting to do both Unsw & Monash interviews on 24 Jan (I know one is trying to) I have retrieved the following info from my Monash email last year.

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Our (Monash) MMI session times are detailed below.

Session / Registration / Sequestered / Complete

Session 1 / 7:45 am / Yes - after MMI / 12:15 pm
Session 2 / 9:45 am / Yes - after MMI / 2:00 pm
Session 3 / 12:15 pm / Yes - after MMI / 4:30 pm
Session 4 / 12:15 pm / Yes - before MMI / 4:30 pm

Each MMI circuit will take about 90 minutes to complete. To maintain the interview content security, it may be necessary to sequester you as per the table above. Sessions that involve sequestering will be up to 4.5 hours in length.
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UNSW is 45 min panel plus admin so allow 1 hour, good thing is IIRC the last time slot was 6pm or 7pm. One possible way is do Monash session 1, show your Unsw interview time & air ticket to request leaving at 10am. That gives 8 hours travel time to arrive at Unsw by 6pm.

It can also be done by asking Monash for interview on 25 Jan, the above suggestion is because the person I know probably wants to do WSU on 25th as well. If he pulls this off I'll nominate him for a gold star for efforts :)

Btw if same as last year Monash session is by online booking, log in early to get the session you want. UNSW session is by replying to Admissions email indicating 4 prefs out of 10 time slots, someone at Admissions then manually arranges to give you the highest pref possible.
 
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A1. said:
the person I know probably wants to do WSU on 25th as well. If he pulls this off I'll request a gold star for him for efforts :)
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if he/she manages those logistics then perhaps industrial engineering or something like that is the right calling!:)
 
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